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LSAT Course Selection: Size Matters

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Raised fingers in classIf you’ve taken a Manhattan LSAT course, you know that we keep our classes small (or at least you know that your class was small). We cap in-person classes at 18 students and live online classes at 25 (where there are two teachers for the class) because, as research increasingly shows, students learn better when they are engaged. Engagement is hard (and often impossible) in a lecture of 75 or 100 people. 
 
In that article I just linked to, Harvard Physics Professor Eric Mazur notes that the lecture course has become obsolete–in no small part, of course, thanks to the internet. Now that information is so widely available, the classroom is no longer as valuable as it once was when it comes to simply imparting information: “Ever since the Middle Ages, the primary vehicle for conveying information was the lecture, but this is the 21st century.”
The internet has created an opportunity for the classroom to be re-imagined, and one way of re-imagining is to incorporate more doing, less telling.
 
This is a good thing for teaching people how to think, as we do when we teach the LSAT. Students don’t learn to think in new ways by listening; they learn how to think differently by doing it.
 
Dr. Tim Lahey, Associate Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, echoes Mazur’s points. As the head of the school’s curriculum redesign, he told Mind/Shift that one of his main goals is to incorporate more interactive work: “Our students can access lots of information really efficiently now online, probably more efficiently than we could ever relay it, so the added value of interactions with faculty should be talking through difficult concepts, refining difficult decision-making, and otherwise doing the challenging stuff that can’t be done with a laptop or phone.” Lahey says it’s clear to him that students working together in small groups produces superior outcomes to lecturing.
 
In sum, I suggest you consider class size when choosing an LSAT course … or a course in anything, for that matter. If all you want is information, I have a website I can refer you to. 

 

Manhattan Prep Giving Back

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imentor fundraiser It’s been a very busy 2013 here at Manhattan Prep! We’ve already worked with over a dozen non-profit organizations this year, supporting their programming and initiatives through in-kind donations, discount programs, and much more. We love to find new ways to team up with these organizations, connecting with pre-MBAs from all over the country who are striving to make a difference.

Below are some highlights from our giving so far this year. We encourage you to check out these organizations to see what awesome things they’ve been up to!

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Manhattan LSAT’s Social Venture Scholars Program

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Manhattan Prep is offering special full tuition scholarships for up to 4 individuals per year (1 per quarter) who will be selected as part of Manhattan Prep’s LSAT Social Venture Scholars program. This program provides the selected scholars with free admission into one of Manhattan Prep’s LSAT live online Complete Courses (an $890 value).

These competitive scholarships are offered to individuals who (1) currently work full-time in an organization that promotes positive social change, (2) plan to use their law degree to work in a public, not-for-profit, or other venture with a social-change oriented mission, and (3) demonstrate clear financial need. The Social Venture Scholars can enroll in any live online preparation course taught by one of Manhattan Prep’s expert instructors within one year of winning the scholarship.

The deadline our next application period is 6/14.

Details about the SVS program and how you can apply can be found here.

Manhattan LSAT Social Venture Scholars Program

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Manhattan Prep is offering special full tuition scholarships for up to 4 individuals per year (1 per quarter) who will be selected as part of Manhattan Prep’s LSAT Social Venture Scholars program. This program provides the selected scholars with free admission into one of Manhattan Prep’s LSAT live online Complete Courses (an $890 value).

These competitive scholarships are offered to individuals who (1) currently work full-time in an organization that promotes positive social change, (2) plan to use their law degree to work in a public, not-for-profit, or other venture with a social-change oriented mission, and (3) demonstrate clear financial need. The Social Venture Scholars can enroll in any live online preparation course taught by one of Manhattan Prep’s expert instructors within one year of winning the scholarship.

Details about the SVS program and how you can apply can be found here.

VIDEO: Coolest Teacher Ever?! Dmitry Farber jams in Paris

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It only takes a few minutes browsing the Manhattan LSAT website to realize that we are extremely proud of our teachers. Not only are they 99th percentile LSAT gurus, but they’re seriously cool, too.

Exhibit B (see exhibit A):  Recently our Dmitry Farber was in Paris and partook in a little loose Jazz groove. That’s him on the mic.

Rock on, Dmitry. Rock on.