@frazzled1: Notice how HappyAlumnus said “grad school” and not “law school.” Also missing were words like “recently.”
I do agree that doing something like putting your feet on an interviewer’s desk can kill your chances though. Adcoms like numbers, but not to the extent of overcoming personal animus. I know a guy, absolutely brilliant but kind of arrogant, had a really high GPA (I think it was 3.8+) and was just killing the LSAT, so much that he knew he’d get a 180. So when it came to the essay (which he knew didn’t count for anything) he wrote in capital letters on successive lines “F” “U” “C” “*” “Y” “O” “U”. Without the star of course. When LSAC delivers the LSAT package to schools the essay is the very first thing on it. While adcoms don’t care about the essay, that kind of cover letter is hard to miss. He got rejected from every school he applied to.
Admittedly this was from around 2006, when the glut of law school applications was in full force, but I expect it would hold true today too.
@boolaHI: You are correct, YLS can afford to look to things like your class load. SLS can also do so, though I have no evidence of their bothering. They’d both get into most of the T6, however.