Is it easier for Women or Men to get into law school? Forum

[Rand M.]

black male > black female

thats subjective

No, it's not.

[smashedpumpkins]

I'm not sure why everyone is so up in arms over this. Females have a significant advantage in hard sciences and MBA admissions because so few women apply to those things. This doesn't seem to be the case with law school, but it's not a ridiculous question.

[bdubs]

It is actually true that the mean score for female applicants is almost always lower by 1 point and for a few schools it is lower by 3+ points

See page 9 here:

http://www.lsac.org/LsacResources/Resea ... -10-01.pdf

This is slightly counterbalanced by higher UGPAs for female applicants shown on page 10. Generally there is a higher mean score with a large standard deviation for male LSAT takers, so there are proportionally fewer females in the highest LSAT scores.

[nygrrrl]

It is actually true that the mean score for female applicants is almost always lower by 1 point and for a few schools it is lower by 3+ points

See page 9 here:

http://www.lsac.org/LsacResources/Resea ... -10-01.pdf

This is slightly counterbalanced by higher UGPAs for female applicants shown on page 10. Generally there is a higher mean score with a large standard deviation for male LSAT takers, so there are proportionally fewer females in the highest LSAT scores.

But this doesn't address the question of whether or not it is "easier" for a woman to get into LS than a man, if everything else is identical. It just says female applicants in this pool have lower median LSAT scores.
In fact, this helps explain why there are fewer women than men in the schools examined (because, if all were equal, naturally there would be more higher-scoring students admitted, thus more men.)

[GATORTIM]

PM from OP

We already saw that comment posted you asshole!!!!
Why don't you come up with something original for a change!?Subject: Is it easier for Women or Men to get into law school?

It really only matters if you are planning a sex change operation

Dude, you opened yourself up to childish/asshole responses by posting such an asinine question...tough guy

[AreJay711]

Interesting point. Or maybe it will happen and us asshole females will just be ostracized and hopelessly single. Sigh.

wow i was going to bold the same thing and comment. guess i'll plan on being less socially acceptable and single as well

Meh. Women will take their role as societal overlords eventually here. I hope it happens soon, because men are doing a terrible job of it.

Just make sure to consider me for jobs when you run things, please?

Ahhh a return to the good 'ole days

[Deuce]

lulz

[lawfreak]

"tough guy" it sounds to me like you're the childish one here! lmao!!!!

Besides, it seems to me that quite a few of the posters here seem to agree with me that I asked a decent question hose-brain (yes, I know, I just stooped to your "mature" level)

PM from OP

We already saw that comment posted you asshole!!!!
Why don't you come up with something original for a change!?Subject: Is it easier for Women or Men to get into law school?

It really only matters if you are planning a sex change operation

Dude, you opened yourself up to childish/asshole responses by posting such an asinine question...tough guy

[DoubleChecks]

PM from OP

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edit this out or something; against forum rules to post PMs

that being said, i dont think it was a ridiculous question for the same reason as what someone said earlier about MBA and engineering schools, etc., though i certainly dont know the OP's intentions in asking it.

I'm not sure why everyone is so up in arms over this. Females have a significant advantage in hard sciences and MBA admissions because so few women apply to those things. This doesn't seem to be the case with law school, but it's not a ridiculous question.

[lawfreak]

My reason for posting this question is in order to get a better understanding of my chances at certain law schools. When I go to a site like law schoo lnumbers, and I see that a female student has the same lsat score as me, I would like to know if I can compare chances with hers. I hope this sheds some light on those of you who are wondering what my intentions of posting this thread were.

PM from OP

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edit this out or something; against forum rules to post PMs

that being said, i dont think it was a ridiculous question for the same reason as what someone said earlier about MBA and engineering schools, etc., though i certainly dont know the OP's intentions in asking it.

I'm not sure why everyone is so up in arms over this. Females have a significant advantage in hard sciences and MBA admissions because so few women apply to those things. This doesn't seem to be the case with law school, but it's not a ridiculous question.

[gbpackerbacker]

No.

[northwood]

No.

[DeeCee]

::PM edited out to GATORTIM from LAWFREAK::

Glad you posted this. This person harassed me in a PM, too.
I wrote back-- Whoa. Someone should probably chill and not get so personally offended by a half-ass joking comment. I hope you have a more positive day.

How about the OP should not be so crazy and PM to harass people.

[vanwinkle]

edit this out or something; against forum rules to post PMs

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[4102011]

This thread has gone from wtf to huh? to more wtf.

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[lawfreak]

Lol....If you call that harassment then you're pretty sad! If anything the comments these people posted to begin with was harassment

There's no rule against posting PMs. There are rules against harassing posters in PMs though! I'll let Vanwinkle take care of this.

[Drake014]

Interesting point. Or maybe it will happen and us asshole females will just be ostracized and hopelessly single. Sigh.

How you doin?

wow i was going to bold the same thing and comment. guess i'll plan on being less socially acceptable and single as well

How you doin, too?

This post is
A. An efficient means of hitting on women, doing it 2 at a time.
B. An inefficient way of hitting on women because it instantly shatters the illusion that they're the only chick you ever hit on. Thereby you are guaranteeing your rejection by both.
C. 5th base

[DoubleChecks]

edit this out or something; against forum rules to post PMs

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There's no rule against posting PMs. There are rules against harassing posters in PMs though! I'll let Vanwinkle take care of this.

whoah say whaaat? haha guess im totally wrong then, wow ive been carrying around that misconception for awhile

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[lawfreak]

ahem...speaking of lacking in class lol

There's no rule against posting PMs. There are rules against harassing posters in PMs though! I'll let Vanwinkle take care of this.

whoah say whaaat? haha guess im totally wrong then, wow ive been carrying around that misconception for awhile

Yeah. It's in poor taste a lot of the time, but it's allowed. Some posters don't know a lot about class or taste, but we don't necessarily regulate that.

[094320]

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