UC vs IVY LEAGUE

DRab
Fri, 26 May 2006 20:33:47 +0000

I think you’re missing something big here, and that the LSAT is a factor in the equation. I also don’t think LSAT score and ability to get a good grade with regard to intelligence have more than some small correlation, but that’s my conjecture.

I don’t think your conclusion follows from the information- I think what the article does mean is that, according to Boalt admissions people in 1997, the Ivy league schools were doing better on their LSAT than their GPA indicated they should, and were given extra points, while the Berkeley students were doing about as well as they were predicted to do on average, and thus were given no extra points. Now, if their GPAs were even lower, they’d be given extra points. Your conclusions do not follow from the information provided, and you should also know that “grade inflation” is a trend, rising over time, and both the Ivy league and Berkeley have it- it’s just that on average, a Berkeley GPA is about .2 points or so below an Ivy GPA- maybe even more than that, but all nine schools seem to have rising average GPAs- perhaps Princeton won’t because of their new policy. Penn’s average seems to be a similar to Berkeley’s.