Unemployed wrote:But yes - something's wrong when Florida gets a .973 and Yale gets a .596...
Went back and recalculated with a different approach, estimating a sort of "market share" for each school based on median LSAT. Taking the percentile for the school's median LSAT, I multiplied out how many candidates per 100,000 would get that score, then figured the ratio of 1/2 the full-time enrollment to that "market." This seems like it sensibly accounts for class size, without over-accounting for it the way simple multiplication might. For the new top 30, this is how it works out:
X "Market Share" ratio
M Number per 100,000 candidates who score at or above this school's median LSAT
E Half of the full-time enrollment
X M E
0.032 21,600 682 University of Florida (Levin)
0.027 13,200 356 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
0.716 1,200 860 Harvard University (MA)
0.030 11,100 335 University of Georgia
0.513 1,200 615 Columbia University (NY)
0.121 2,200 267 Stanford University (CA)
0.025 9,100 230 Brigham Young University (Clark) (UT)
0.320 900 288 Yale University (CT)
0.106 6,200 657 University of Texas-Austin
0.016 21,600 353 University of South Carolina
0.153 3,700 565 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
0.018 24,600 432 Seattle University
0.022 18,300 408 University of Houston
0.080 7,400 593 Fordham University (NY)
0.424 1,700 721 New York University
0.021 13,200 278 Rutgers, the State Univ. of New Jersey-Camden
0.198 2,900 573 University of Virginia
0.012 27,800 328 Indiana University-Indianapolis
0.176 1,700 300 University of Chicago
0.002 47,400 116 University of South Dakota
0.010 21,600 227 Georgia State University
0.026 15,700 409 University of Wisconsin-Madison
0.011 43,200 457 South Texas College of Law
0.005 35,200 171 Campbell University (Wiggins) (NC)
0.047 13,200 620 University of California (Hastings)
0.025 11,100 277 Southern Methodist University (TX)
0.096 7,400 714 George Washington University (DC)
0.025 13,200 337 University of Maryland
0.003 43,200 121 University of Montana
So Yale draws 32% of people who scored in the 99th percentile. Florida nabbed 3.2% of people who scored in the 78th and higher. Harvard will draw a whopping 72 out of every 100 people who scored 172 or above (based on an estimated 100,000 candidates).