<p>Certainly the LSAC is making a tradeoff, and certainly it could go either way.</p>
<p>From how it seems to me, the LSAC would rather maintain distinctions – some genuine, some false – between students than flatten those distinctions – again, some genuine, some false.</p>
<p>Beyond that, it may reflect an underlying philosophy that perpetuating an inequality (some schools don’t give A+'s) is better than creating one (flattening the effect of the A+'s that were given).</p>
<p>Certainly I agree that there’s a tradeoff.</p>