Visit, Events & Virtual Engagement
Every law school has its distinctive qualities, its individual cultures and a unique atmosphere. Visiting a law school can help you determine whether it’s the best place for you to live and study.
The School of Law is offering in-person LSAT Prep Events events to help prospective law students prepare for the LSAT.
Both the Workshop and Practice Test session includes instructions with Erin Decker '16 who will teach you what skills you need to succeed in getting the best LSAT score possible.
No refunds are available 48 hours prior to the workshop. The following in-person LSAT Prep events will take place in O'Brian Hall, University at Buffalo, North Campus.
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Send a message to law-admissions@buffalo.edu. We’ll let you know when and where our next workshop will be held.
Our comprehensive workshop teaches valuable techniques and skills to master the LSAT. Workshops cost $100 and includes instructions with Erin Decker '16.
Schedule:
9:30 a.m. - Registration will take place in the lobby of O’Brian Hall
10:00 a.m. - Workshop begins
1:00 p.m. - Lunch Break
1:30 - 4:30 p.m. - Workshop continues
Dates:
- Saturday, September 7, 2024
- Saturday, November 9, 2024
Be prepared for test day! Learn valuable test-taking strategies. A Practice Test costs $50 and includes a 3-hour review of the LSAT Prep Test. If you have subscribed to LSAT Prep Plus® , you already have access to the digital version of the Prep Test. Please bring your laptop to take the digital version.
Before taking the digital LSAT on your laptop, please ensure that you have reliable WiFi service. (Information on UB guest access) Log into your LSAC account prior to 9:30 a.m. so testing may begin on time.
Schedule:
9:30 a.m. - Registration will take place in the lobby of O’Brian Hall
10:00 a.m. - Test Taking Strategies
10:30 a.m. - Administer LSAT Prep Test
1:00 - 1:30 p.m. - Lunch Break
1:30 - 4:30 p.m. – Review
Dates:
- Saturday, October 5, 2024 (PrepTest #141)
- Saturday, January 18, 2025 (PrepTest #157)
The LSAT is a standardized test required for admission to most law schools. Administered by the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), the LSAT aids law schools in evaluating applicants.
This multiple-choice exam scores test takers from a range of 120 to 180. An unscored writing sample is additionally included and will be forwarded to law schools you apply to, often for use in the application review process.
- Learn more about the LSAT
Erin Decker '16 is one of only a handful of test-takers who aced her LSAT, answering every question correctly to earn a perfect score of 180. Fortunately, her passion for education extends to sharing that knowledge, and she is happy to teach the secrets of her success to the next generation of aspiring law students.
“Of all of the graduate admissions tests, the LSAT is the one most strongly correlated with grades in the first year, so schools appropriately place a lot of emphasis on the results” Decker says. “That makes sense, because the LSAT, unlike most other tests, is not content-based. There is nothing to memorize and regurgitate; you need to be able to think on your feet, and you need to be motivated to learn from your mistakes.”
“The skills you need to succeed on the LSAT – the ability to read critically and precisely, and to identify logical connections or flaws within arguments – are the same skills you need to succeed in law school and beyond. It’s not enough to know the background facts and final outcome of a case, an attorney must also understand the factors that led to a decision in order to effectively mount an appeal or use precedent in a new matter.”
Decker is a bona fide expert on the subject. She began teaching LSAT prep courses for Kaplan, Inc., the national test prep company, while earning her Masters in math at Binghamton University. Teaching the LSAT in that context, she says, “got me thinking seriously about law school. I never saw a disconnect between math and the law. When you get to a certain level of studying math, it’s all about theorems, logic, and intuition. It’s not about numbers. To me, the biggest difference was that as a lawyer, I could be an advocate for people facing immediate, real-world challenges, while as a mathematician, I would be focused on abstract concepts.”
Advocacy, according to Decker, was “definitely the right the choice.” As a practicing attorney, she focuses on civil and business litigation as well as trust and estate law, leveraging her law degree as well as her MBA education from Cornell University to represent her clients' interests in business and financial matters.
For the School of Law, Decker developed a day-long LSAT preparation workshop for college students and adults considering a career change. The workshop includes six hours of instruction punctuated by a lunch hour at which law school staffers lead a question-and-answer session about the admissions process.
Is it really possible to coach someone to earn a higher score on the LSAT, which after all is supposed to measure innate skills? “Of course!” Decker says: “Part of it is understanding the structure of the test and what the questions are really asking, and the rest depends on honing your critical reading skills. You can absolutely teach those, and we have seen our students excel because of it.”