Loophole Online and Elemental Prep have collected 535 student testimonials across Amazon book reviews, Reddit posts, TikTok, direct emails, onboarding calls, and live tutoring — including 26 students who scored 175 or higher on the LSAT.
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Wall of Love
Every quote here is real. They come from everywhere — verified Amazon reviews of The Loophole, Reddit threads, TikTok creators, late-night emails sent the day after a student opened their score report, onboarding calls with brand-new students, and Ellen’s own tutoring students at Elemental Prep. We pulled them all into one place. The volume is the point.
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“Thank you for writing The Loophole. Your book has been a great help.”
“Simply put, Elemental changed my life. After tutoring with Susie and Ellen, there really is no "pre-Elemental world" in my books. Ellen's stimulus-based approach for Logical Reasoning is easy to follow and systematic. Oh and, guess what, it works!”
“Hello All - I just finished my Elemental journey after having been accepted to UVa. Going to law school has been a dream of mine since I was a little kid. Having that actualized is due in large part to the support I received from Ellen & team. So thank you thank you thank you!”
“The loophole is a godsend. It helped me go from PTing 138 to 173.”
“*Score journey: 166 to 171* My LSAT journey was admittedly a long one, starting in January 2020 and ending in June 2021. Going into it, I figured I could get away with a three-month study plan: I'd work through some of the prep books, complete a handful of PrepTests, and boom -- I would secure my 170+ score.”
“Such a fun spin on learning the ins and outs of the LR portion.”
“Elemental can unravel all your misconceptions about the LSAT and get you started enjoying and loving it.”
“This is an amazing read and really good for prepping you for the LSAT.”
“I've been studying for the LSAT for a year on and off -- enter this book.”
“This book is incredibly helpful and well-written.”
“Ellen has the gift to break down the art of the LSAT.”
“Even for an international student, translation/CLIR method work very well.”
“Loophole was 10/10 for me.”
“I just finished reading The Loophole. The book was gifted to me from a friend who recommended it.”
“I have absolutely loved the Loophole book. My blind diagnostic was 156.”
“I feel like it's single best resource for LR.”
“I have been using your loophole book and it has already helped so much!”
“As an ESL student, your book has been a game-changer for me... diagnostic score of 144... improved to a 166.”
“*Score journey: Low 140s to 171* After taking an LSAT course and going through two different LSAT tutors, I still did not see ANY improvements in my LSAT score. I started to feel really discouraged. I knew what doors a good LSAT score could open and felt I wasn't capable of achieving that.”
“I can look up in The Loophole — which is really helpful — the chapter and the correlations to the videos you have.”
“Ellen and The Loophole are helpful on two levels. On the first level she can help you sharpen your reading scalpel to look at the different ways one can dissect any stimulus which other reviewers have alluded to in their reviews.”
“I recommend the Loophole! Especially for understanding conditional logic.”
“Your book is pretty awesome, I gotta say.”
“This is going to be really life-changing.”
“The only book that let me understand the pattern of my mistakes.”
“That's by far my favorite part of all this — all the ones you mark X go straight to your wrong-answer journal.”
“*10-year LSAT journey.* For the first time in my 10-year on and off journey with the LSAT, I finally feel truly hopeful that I can crush this test! That wouldn't have been possible without Ellen and her incredible Elemental Team! The Loophole, Ellen's strategies, and the community have become irreplaceable.”
“Ellen is by far the most detailed caring LSAT prepper in the biz.”
“It has been so helpful to get a solid foundation in LR.”
“This book has been helpful in the sense that it makes me want to study.”
Your Guide
Meet Ellen Cassidy.
Ellen wrote the book — literally. The Loophole in LSAT Logical Reasoning is recommended across r/LSAT and has shipped tens of thousands of copies.
But Ellen isn't just an author. She still tutors students 4-10 hours a day — but there's only one of her. She built Loophole Online so every student could get her complete methodology, not just the few who can book her calendar. Same strategies, same frameworks, same results — now at scale.
Her mission: teach the world to read and think.

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