Relaxed/friendly atmosphere

SBmom
Tue, 23 May 2006 17:13:42 +0000

I could be wrong but I think the Boalt survey used LSATs as a ‘control.’

They looked at kids with similar LSAT scores from different schools, then looked at their GPAs. They noticed that–given the same LSAT score-- the GPAs tended to be lowest at the top of this list and highest at the bottom.

It isn’t a perfect test, because LSATs are not a prefect control. But if you accept LSAT performance as a very rough estimate of ‘smarts,’ then this list has validity.