Yale Beats Princeton in top 12 law school acceptance rates

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<p>[U&lt;/a&gt;. trails Yale in law school acceptance rates - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/12/04/24648/]U”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/12/04/24648/)</p>

<p>And what percentile is a 164 LSAT score?</p>

<p>OK…I found a conversion chart…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.alpha-score.com/lsat-resources/lsat-scores-explained/[/url]”>http://www.alpha-score.com/lsat-resources/lsat-scores-explained/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Good. I was so worried.</p>

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<p>We are soooo fortunate;</p>

<p>[How</a> should Princeton be in the nation’s service? - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2005/11/15/13799/]How”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2005/11/15/13799/) </p>

<p>I think. ??</p>

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<p>Yale’s mean gpa was a 3.58? And who said grade inflation was dead. :)</p>

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<p>The article says that was the mean GPA among law school applicants. Not the student body as a whole. </p>

<p>How many years ago did they change the LSAT scoring from the 200-800 scale? That’s what was used back when I applied to law school, sometime before the Flood.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I got that, but compare it to MIT’s or even Princeton’s.</p>

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<p>The GPA for law school applicants reported was:
Princeton 3.45
Yale 3.58
MIT 3.32</p>

<p>For the overall student body it was reported as:
Princeton 3.28
Yale 3.51
MIT N/A</p>

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<p>LSAT scores were on the 120-180 scale back when I applied about 30 years ago. Are you sure they were ever on the 200-800 scale?</p>

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<p>Yep. In 1972, they were still on the 200-800 scale.</p>

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<p>They were on the 200-800 scale when I applied in 1979-80.</p>

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<p>This is great to read this. So many high school students think that if you get accepted to an ivy, live will be so easy from then on.</p>

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<p>I applied in late 1980 for the term starting in Sept 1981. So that’s when the new scoring system must have come in.</p>

<p>[Wow, some of you guys must be olde…]</p>

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<p>The difference between the LSAT means of 164 and 166 is large enough to explain this difference in results.</p>

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<p>2 points is enough? 3 answers…Amazing…</p>

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<p>Agree with Hanna. MIT’s median LSAT is the most variable. Fewer people apply to law school and the numbers can vary dramatically from year to year. </p>

<p>And, BTW, the way law schools measure grade inflation, Yale isn’t particularly grade-inflated. In fact, it’s no more so that UChicago, as the LSAC measures it.</p>

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<p>jonri knows law school admissions.</p>

<p>My comment is that one year’s results is not statistically interesting. If they had 10 years of data, that might yield something of interest. One year is an anecdote. What if Princeton led Yale in 29 prior years? What if the results fluctuate more than the difference every 3 years?</p>

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<p>Yes, two points is more than enough to make a real difference in your odds at these law schools when the points fall in the margin, as these do. There’s a huge gulf between 90th and 95th percentile. The same two points would reflect a much smaller change in percentile if we’re talking about a 174 vs. a 176.</p>

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<p>FWIW, I started law school in the fall of 1981 (I took the test in late 1980) and the LSAT was on the 200-800 scale. Hubby entered law school in the fall of 1987 and it was on a different scale by then (it only went up to the high 40’s or 50); I think the change occurred in 1982. It’s now on an even different scale, but I don’t know when that occurred.</p>