Studying for the LSAT advice

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<p>I'm very new to the law school game (I'm a PhD student in economics now), but I'm interested in going if I can get in somewhere good. I don't know that much about the LSAT, just the basics. I read somewhere that it's good to take a lot of practice tests for it, so I took one to see sort of where I was starting out at- I got a 168 on it. Is this like the GRE quant where I need to score like a perfect score for any of the top programs to even consider me? Should I take more practice tests? Any advice would be helpful.</p>

<p>My goal is to try to get in to a top 5 school, or I will probably not go and will just finish my doctorate instead. Is that even possible where I'm starting from? I've already got an MA in economics (health and applied microeconomics at Illinois-Chicago) and a BA in economics and spanish from Kansas. I had like a 3.85 GPA at KU and a 4.0 at UIC (though I've heard your grad school GPA doesn't really matter to a lot of schools). Really any advice on how to study/if that's even a realistic goal would be good. </p>

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<p>Only your undergraduate GPA matters. You should try to score 170 or better on the LSAT. With an initial practice test of 168, you should aim for a 175 or better. However, since you are new to law school I would definitely spend some time making sure you really want to practice law. I generally tell undergrads to go get some work experience interning at law firms/DA’s/PD’s offices. Depending on your exposure to the profession, that might not be a bad idea for you either. </p>