<p>Sallyawp–</p>
<p>I certainly don’t mean to cut you to pieces and I’m sorry if this post somehow upsets you, but you did not in fact say that the “pool of potential . . . applicants is approximately 10,000 people.” What you in fact said is the pool of applicants contains as many as 10,000 applicants who have scored 170 and over, trying to make the point that there are so many applicants with high scores that law schools must look at soft factors to distinguish between them. Here is your language:</p>
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<p>Although I certainly cannot refute your main point (having no knowledge of law schools admissions process), I think that the number of high LSAT applicants is obviously far fewer in a given year than you posit. I tend to agree with jonri–that soft factors only matter for a certain percentage of applicants and I also believe that that percentage is far lower than most law schools (which claim that the whole process is “holistic”) would have you believe.</p>