Law School Application question (admission index)

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Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: darren
the index helps in determining relative weights placed upon your gpa and lsat in determining admission.
by inserting your #'s say a 165 and 3.3, you can find that you have a higher (or lower) composite score than a friend who has a lower lsat 160 and higher gpa 3.7 - does that make any sense or am i missing something.

for those (like myself) who are not at a top 25 school, but are in a top 50 - and not in the top 10% - we may not be hotly recruited in a lukewarm economy and may be attending regional schools in terms of job search, but at least we don't have to be worry about flunking out of law school. last time i checked, uc davis, in the past few years basically did notbecause they could not pass a class or meet the academic requirements.
in a tier 3 school you got to watch your ass cause anywhere between 1/3rd and 1/5th of your class is getting flunked out each year.

that does take MUCH stress out of my law school experience.

That does make sense, I'm just curious if there's any way I can find a cut off, or some way to compare that to formulate my own relative chances of admission. For example, with my GPA and LSAT, I have an index of 99, my friend with those other numbers has an index of 97, which is nice, I have a better chance of admission than my friend, but until I know either the total number of students applying/accepted and their relative weights, or find out a cutoff or some other standard from the school, I'm not sure how else to use it.

maybe i'm getting confused here, but this is the way my bf did it. he went to each school and found their median LSAT and GPA. went to the LSAC calculator thing, plugged that in, got the index number. then he plugged in his LSAT/GPA, and got that number. he compared his number to the school's number. if he was above the median, he figured he was pretty good to get in. way below and his chances weren't as great.

the prob with using the numbers is that they're from last year's matirculated students and it may be even more competitive this year.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: freesia39

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: darren
the index helps in determining relative weights placed upon your gpa and lsat in determining admission.
by inserting your #'s say a 165 and 3.3, you can find that you have a higher (or lower) composite score than a friend who has a lower lsat 160 and higher gpa 3.7 - does that make any sense or am i missing something.

for those (like myself) who are not at a top 25 school, but are in a top 50 - and not in the top 10% - we may not be hotly recruited in a lukewarm economy and may be attending regional schools in terms of job search, but at least we don't have to be worry about flunking out of law school. last time i checked, uc davis, in the past few years basically did notbecause they could not pass a class or meet the academic requirements.
in a tier 3 school you got to watch your ass cause anywhere between 1/3rd and 1/5th of your class is getting flunked out each year.

that does take MUCH stress out of my law school experience.

That does make sense, I'm just curious if there's any way I can find a cut off, or some way to compare that to formulate my own relative chances of admission. For example, with my GPA and LSAT, I have an index of 99, my friend with those other numbers has an index of 97, which is nice, I have a better chance of admission than my friend, but until I know either the total number of students applying/accepted and their relative weights, or find out a cutoff or some other standard from the school, I'm not sure how else to use it.

maybe i'm getting confused here, but this is the way my bf did it. he went to each school and found their median LSAT and GPA. went to the LSAC calculator thing, plugged that in, got the index number. then he plugged in his LSAT/GPA, and got that number. he compared his number to the school's number. if he was above the median, he figured he was pretty good to get in. way below and his chances weren't as great.

the prob with using the numbers is that they're from last year's matirculated students and it may be even more competitive this year.

That's actually not a bad way of doing it, I suppose I hadn't thought about just doing that. I probably won't get as precise of numbers as I would prefer until I actually apply!

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Orsorum
Bump.