LSAT 25-75 ranges

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Is there anyway to forecast whether or not a schools range is going to go down for their 25-75 range or up? Does less applicants necessarily mean a lower range?</p>

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<p>Yea, there might be one way you can forecast it going down. If you get accepted with very low scores… the school’s range will most likely go down.:slight_smile: Other than that, I’m not sure how you could know. Wouldn’t your second question depend on the school? If Harvard or some other top school receives less applicants, it might be due to people not applying that know they don’t have a chance in hell of being accepted.</p>

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<p>No, it would not.</p>

<p>If you are looking at HYS, do not expect their ranges to decrease drastically anytime soon.</p>

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<p>I am not looking at HYS. And I figured as much as bsme did with concern to whether or not there is a way to forecast. I just wanted to put it out for discussion</p>

<p>Nspeds, any idea about schools outside of the T14 (ie. Fordham, Cardozo, etc)</p>

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<p>I strongly doubt it. Perhaps they could increase because of the new ABA policy on accepting the highest LSAT score of multiple takings.</p>

<p>This is just sheer speculation on my part. I have no idea.</p>

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<p>I think that fewer people who take the LSAT means that ranges go down, only because scores equate to percentiles. In some years, there will only be 1,000 people who score 170 or above; in other years, there will be 1,500 people who do so. Ergo, in some years, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, and Stanford, if they so desired, could fill their classes entirely with 170+ students. In other years, they would have to dig into the great unwashed 98th percentile kids. Of course, that all trickles down. About 50,000 people go to law school every year; between 100,000 and 150,000 take the LSAT.</p>

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<p>The unwashed 98th percentile. Yuck.</p>

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<p>Ahem. I thought it was a good line. :p</p>

<p>(Or maybe I just spend too much time reading Abovethelaw.com and underneaththeirrobes.com…)</p>

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<p>Its true, people who score 169’s and below on the LSAT fail to bathe regularly.</p>