Our ability to pair you with a particular tutor primarily turns on availability. We do consider your preference to the extent that we can. From there, we make suggestions based on things like common interest, time zone alignment, and may even default to giving you the person with the very highest LSAT score available. We try to be as accommodating to our students as we can be, but we are also confident that every one of our tutors will deliver an outstanding experience for you.

Many of our students choose to work with a particular tutor based on some aspect of the bio that suggests common ground between the tutor and student. For example, many of our students who wish to practice public interest law eventually are drawn to Alex, who spends his days fighting for those facing eviction in housing court.

To the extent that you do not have a strong preference, we will pair you with an available tutor and do our very best to convey to you why we are excited to do so. Every one of our tutors is thoroughly screened and provided with every tool that they need to be successful as an LSAT instructor. Our success as a company has derived from our ability to hire outstanding instructors who are dedicated to your success.

Each of our instructors will approach every lesson with the mentality that it is incumbent on them to provide great instruction for the time that you have booked. But each of them is also committed to providing you a clear vision for what you should be doing between your current session and the next one. And every one of your sessions should end with some discussion of why additional sessions will be valuable and what you can expect moving forward. You should choose to continue to work with your tutor only if you are getting great value. And we believe that our tutors are uniquely equipped to do that. That is why we never obligate you to continue with your current tutor and instead allow you to pay as you go, book as you go, and set your own course for your LSAT preparation.

In short, yes! There is a huge advantage to choosing a tutor and booking your first session.

When you do choose a tutor, you will tentatively hold the spot in that tutor’s pool of current students, which means that your tutor will work to ensure that there are times available for sessions and that they are available to work with you throughout your study process without interruption. Each of our tutors is committed to maintaining a reasonable work schedule that ensures that none of their students get anything less than the highest level of instruction at each session they book.

You do not have to commit to more than one session to reserve your space with a tutor. However, you should be ready to make plans with your tutor for what you expect to accomplish in your tutoring as you get started, and that likely will mean that you will want to lay out a plan that involves anywhere from 8 to 15 sessions of tutoring.

To learn more about why this is such a wide range, please do schedule a consultation. We would be happy to talk to you about the various factors that go into this admittedly substantial difference and help you to form expectations based on your personal circumstances.

In short, no. At least not at teaching the LSAT with the LSAT Nerds. As with any company that provides LSAT preparation, we rely largely on our ability to hire the most talented young prospective lawyers available, who each bring their current LSAT expertise, earned as students who recently took the test themselves, to provide instruction that is supported by a current and complete understanding of the test. Beyond that, every one of our tutors is thoroughly screened to ensure that they have the ability to have meaningful conversations with students about the material. You will not just be lectured at. You will not be confined to a narrow set of questions that are heavily prepared. You will be working through tough material and understanding the thought processes that allowed your tutor – and will allow you – to find the right solution on test day.

Every one of the tutors on our website is an active contributor at the LSAT Nerds. We are all working together to provide an unparalleled experience and do so as one of the largest teams of active tutors around. However, most of our team also does other work. Thus, each of us only has so many hours per week that we can dedicate to our tutoring. Despite this fact, most of us try to keep our schedules as open as possible for our current students. We want to be available and useful when we can be, and we make an effort to get our other work done while our students are hard at work doing effective studying based on our guidance.

We are proud to offer superior service for a lower price than the big LSAT prep companies. This is made possible through our unique business model, which allows us to keep overhead much lower than our competitors and ensure more of your money is going to securing the best tutoring possible. As a result, you receive the best instruction possible at a fraction of the cost.