<p>Well, what do you want? Statistics for every single individual that applied? That would violate student privacy. </p>
<p>Furthermore, I’ve seen you harp on the fact that the data doesn’t include info on those that applied. My first response to that is that it’s all relative. The Berkeley data may be incomplete, but so is the data from Stanford, Yale, Princeton, or any other school. After all, no school out there can force every one of its prelaws to report their results. I don’t see any reason why the Berkeley data would be any MORE incomplete than data from other schools, especially when aggregated over a number of years. </p>
<p>Secondly, if anything the data is actually skewed ‘upwards’. Let’s face it. If you didn’t get into any law schools, I doubt that you are champing at the bit to report this fact. Usually, people who report for surveys like this are people who are happy with their results. So if anything, I would suspect that it is actually MORE difficult to get into law school than the results indicate.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that I think the best way to use surveys like this is on a relative basis. Take the Berkeley data. Compare it to data from Stanford or some other school. Look at the relative differences.</p>