GPA/LSAT are not all that matters

bluebayou
Mon, 07 Sep 2015 20:18:28 +0000

demo: as you know, a hook, which includes URM, makes up for a lot of non-numerical items.

I would more believe it in practice if Chicago or Berk admitted a 3.3 non URM Engineer that went to a school with a lot of grade deflation.

Yeah, but Chicago is not seeking low GPA’s and Boalt it not seeking non-URM engineering applicants!

Happy: perhaps bcos I am a cynic by nature – grew up on the wrong side of the tracks – I learned to become a very critical reader. Note, Ivey’s example: standard splitter, of which Chicago does not favor, since they are big on high GPAs. In other words, a below median GPA has to have something else to move to the next pile – admit/committee review.

But note, her example was not of a Cat 1 applicant. So, in that respect she is being truthful for the splitter applicant.

That being said, to make a blanket statement, “that undergrad matters,” to me it has to matter for all applicants. And I would suggest that Ivey might be wording her blog differently if the applicant had above 75th’s GPA+LSAT. In such cases, she’d be looking for any reason not to accept, such as registered sex offender, academic dishonesty, etc.