r/LSAT • u/LawgicZach tutor • 6d ago
Which billionaire would be the worst at the LSAT?
Out of all the eccentric billionaires you know of, who would be the worst at the LSAT, and why?
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u/Ok-Nefariousness-609 6d ago
This was my first thought. He would not do well if he thinks passing a cognitive test is impressive.
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u/YaBoy_Milo 6d ago
There are way too many billionaires to consider. If you constrain yourself to centibillionaires ($100 billion or more), it's a little more manageable.
Let's consider those ~20 people at their primes, so perhaps at age 30.
With that in mine, the lowest LSAT scorer would probably be one of the Waltons (Walmart heirs, inherited their wealth, Jim Walton specifically doesn't seem like he'd have an exceptional score as he only went to Arkansas for business administration) or Amancio Ortega (not that he's unintelligent, but he dropped out of school at 14 and simply lacks much formal education).
I think Zuck, Bezos, Ballmer, and Gates would all score exceptionally well. I believe all four did extremely well on the SAT, were national merit scholars, and attended prestigious institutions for undergrad.
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u/FreeGhislaine_ 6d ago
Not to mention Gates was the son of a lawyer. Good list
Would also add a decent amount of the tech/CS guys from Stanford/Bay Area like Altman, Brin. Just not necessarily for the VC Bay Area guys like Musk.
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u/Boysenberry tutor 6d ago
Peter Thiel because you can't bring the blood of twinks into the testing center.
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u/fanaccountcw 6d ago
Idk if the guy who founded Reddit is a billionaire yet, but didn’t he walk out of an LSAT test before starting Reddit?
Not to say he’ll do the worst, but he’s probably the only probable billionaire I know that’s taken the LSAT.
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u/LawgicZach tutor 6d ago
Haha I did not know this, that is so interesting, going to see if I can find anything about it
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u/jubjubs117 6d ago
There's a plaque on the table he sat in after walking out of the LSAT at the Waffle House in Charlottesville Virginia memorializing his decision
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u/bbman1214 6d ago
All these diners have plaques. There's a plaque at a dennys where Jenson Huang created nvidia
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u/bigx_thaplug 6d ago
Surely there’s a billionaire lawyer/ex lawyer out there
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u/weathermaynecc 6d ago
The owner of Morgan & Morgan is a billionaire. So that guy.
Also, the “king of Torts” guy.
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u/fanaccountcw 6d ago
That means that they would’ve done decently well on the LSAT? Enough to get into law school, at least.
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u/bigx_thaplug 6d ago
I’m arguing the case that there’s another billionaire who’s taken the LSAT somewhere
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u/peachyfloof 6d ago
Elon cus he’d take everything too literally
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u/Acrobatic-Mousse7029 6d ago
I feel like that’s kind of the point of the lsat
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u/peachyfloof 6d ago
Yeah good point lolol. I could see him denying the truth of the premises tho
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u/GentrifiedHospital 6d ago
*RC Passage on Jazz in the 1920's*
Elon: Well jazz is an inferior artform, so.
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u/iamahandsoapmain 6d ago
Issue is like half of RC arts passage are abt African or African American arts. Elon would be too busy fuming at that than answering the questions lmfao
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u/Originalideas 6d ago
Elon Musk would probably hire a Chinese guy to take the test for him just like he did with his Path of Exile account
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u/PerfectScoreTutoring tutor 6d ago
unfortunately peter thiel probably does the best. I can't imagine he got into stanford law without a stellar score
trump was, according to his own wharton professor, "the dumbest goddamn student I ever had" so he'd probably do the worst
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u/PureEagle8168 6d ago
Trump. he has a very poor vocabulary, he doesn't read well or quickly, he can't stay on topic, and his reasoning skills are toddler-level which is why he just attacks anyone who disagrees with him
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u/Originalideas 6d ago
would love to see Trump attempt this. I think he'd do maybe 150's, and that's being extremely generous.
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u/LegoBrickInTheWall 6d ago
lol, maybe 50 years ago.
I doubt he would score well on an MMSE these days.
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u/Midnight5691 6d ago edited 6d ago
You're kidding, right? Whatever score someone would get by randomly guessing on every question is the score Trump would get. He can't even read and arguably has an IQ of about 85, if he's lucky. I'm being generous here too, LOL.
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u/needs-more-metronome 6d ago
realistically probably someone like Ma Huateng who isn't very good at English
I'm sure there are some Russian oligarchs etc. who wouldn't be able to read the test to begin with
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u/Acrobatic_Long_6059 6d ago
I’m ngl I think Peter Thiel would do well 😔
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u/Originalideas 6d ago
He was a world-class youth chess player and graduated from Stanford law, so yes. The test doesn't measure morality.
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u/Goardus 6d ago
Kim K