GPA/LSAT are not all that matters

bluebayou
Tue, 08 Sep 2015 04:44:42 +0000

^^Isn’t that what I just said, Demo?

btw: applicants don’t have to have “identical numbers”; indeed, they only need to be in the same band, which from a gross standpoint, is top quartile, above median, and below median.

If an applicant is top quartile, it doesn’t matter how high in the quartile that persons is. Ditto, if below median; once below median, it doesn’t matter how far below, which is the only thing that USNews cares about. (yeah, I get that way below would give rise t the question if the student could even do what work, but that is a different matter.) Thus, I would think it would be quite commonplace that students from differing undergrads are in the same ‘band’.

But as I said earlier, for an 18-year-old choosing an undergrad college, it would be foolish to choose the top private and to assume the top grades and test scores such that HLS might be a consideration 5 years hence.

btw: Morse has not really identified how the median LSAT is exactly used in USNews’ rankings. From what I’ve read, albeit anecdotally, the LSAT number is a not a hard cutoff unlike the GPA which is. Thus, schools wanting to climb the rankings, should focus on GPA first. Moving from a 3.7 median to a 3.8 can work wonders, but a 170 to 171 might not be as impactful.