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Do You Need Help?

Anyone Can Choose the Right Law School  ·  Chapter 16 of 12  ·  2 min read  ·  by Steve Schwartz
You can run this entire method yourself, for free, with nothing but the 509 reports and the chapters in this book. The decision comes after 1 number, the LSAT score that earns the offers and the leverage in the first place, and that's the part my team and I coach. About 1 in 3 free lessons end with someone told they're not ready to pay for help yet. Book the free LSAT tutoring lesson at unpluggedprep.com/start if you want a second read on your number, and skip it if the method already got you what you need.

You can run this whole method yourself, free, with nothing but the 509 reports and the chapters you just read. That’s how it was built, on purpose. But if you want a human in it, here’s the honest version of what that looks like.

The decision you just learned to make comes after 1 number: the LSAT score that earns you the offers and the leverage in the first place. That’s the part I coach. Maybe your reckoning showed you that your number is what’s standing between you and the schools you’d actually choose. If so, the best thing you can do isn’t fine-tuning among these offers. It’s raising the number that gets you better ones.

So if you want it: book your free LSAT tutoring lesson at unpluggedprep.com/start. Bring your Offer Scorecard and the schools you wish you could choose between. We’ll look at what a stronger number would put in reach, and what it would do to your price tags and your negotiating leverage.

Here’s the honest part, on the record. About 1 in 3 of those free lessons end with us telling someone they’re not ready to pay for help yet. We’ll tell you the truth about where you stand, because that’s the only thing worth having at this stage. I sell prep, I make money when you go, and I still spent a whole book telling you to choose on price and outcomes over prestige, because that’s the advice that’s actually true. Take the help if it’s useful. Skip it if it isn’t. The method works either way.

One more thing about what that conversation actually is, since I’d want to know before booking. It’s a look at where your number stands against the schools you want, what a realistic target would be, and whether closing that gap is worth your time given everything else on your plate. It isn’t a sales pitch dressed up as a lesson. Maybe the honest read is that your number is already where it needs to be, or that prep isn’t your best move right now. If so, we’ll say so, and you’ll have saved yourself the trouble. That’s the whole point of doing it for free.

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The things that go stale fast (exact salary figures, current loan rates, this year’s school-by-school outcomes and medians) live on the resources page, not in these chapters. That way they stay current even after the book doesn’t.

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This chapter is from Anyone Can Choose the Right Law School by Steve Schwartz, LSAT Coach and Founder of LSAT Unplugged. I've been coaching the LSAT since 2005.
Published July 28, 2026.