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re: You be the admissions director
Posted on 9/22/14 at 6:11 pm to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 9/22/14 at 6:11 pm to LSUFanHouston
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A school is NOT going to take an inferior candiate (no matter how they rank the kids) over a superior one.
Happens all the time at law schools admissions. The thing is it isn't the super superior student with the 180 LSAT that doesn't get an offer, it's the kid that is at the various low ends of the schools typical admission spectrum. Ie the lowest non diversity admission is 168 but the diversity selection is a 160. The jump can be pretty stark at that juncture.
Btw not sure if posted but you could make a "meritocracy" argument for a lower scoring individual. There is certainly "merit" to doing "more with less" but of course what is an acceptable lower accomplishment is highly subjective.
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Posted on 9/22/14 at 8:29 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
quote:The difference between a 160 and a 168 is far from stark. Half of that difference can be a single bad deduction in a logic game.
The thing is it isn't the super superior student with the 180 LSAT that doesn't get an offer, it's the kid that is at the various low ends of the schools typical admission spectrum. Ie the lowest non diversity admission is 168 but the diversity selection is a 160. The jump can be pretty stark at that juncture.
(And LSAT is a single component of the admissions matrix, one which in the rosiest of studies administered by LSAC is correlated at a .36 coefficient with first-year grades and drops to noise after that.)
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