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College rank vs. Law School Rank
I found a thread comparing high school rank to law school rank but can't find anything comparing college to law school. List your college GPA/rank compared to your LS rank and school.
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Re: College rank vs. Law School Rank
This is stupid. There is a very weak correlation between undergrad rank and law school rank, between LSAT and law school rank, or between LSAT + UGPA and law school rank.
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I generally agree with DB's view on this. For example, if a school takes mainly 90%ile LSAT scorers and throws them into classes together, only 10% of them will be in the top 10% of the class, and 50% of them will be at the bottom end of their class ranking. You will get the result that LSAT score in no way correlates to performance in law school. These comparison threads really serve no useful purpose.
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Bert wrote:I generally agree with DB's view on this. For example, if a school takes mainly 90%ile LSAT scorers and throws them into classes together, only 10% of them will be in the top 10% of the class, and 50% of them will be at the bottom end of their class ranking. You will get the result that LSAT score in no way correlates to performance in law school. These comparison threads really serve no useful purpose.
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RC fail.Bert wrote:I generally agree with DB's view on this. For example, if a school takes mainly 90%ile LSAT scorers and throws them into classes together, only 10% of them will be in the top 10% of the class, and 50% of them will be at the bottom end of their class ranking. You will get the result that LSAT score in no way correlates to performance in law school. These comparison threads really serve no useful purpose.
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How so? I am agreeing with your assertion that there is a very low correlation between LSAT score and law school rank. Maybe I could have phrased my posting a little better but I don't think there is an RC fail there.romothesavior wrote:RC fail.
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When you're in a hole, stop digging.Bert wrote:How so? I am agreeing with your assertion that there is a very low correlation between LSAT score and law school rank. Maybe I could have phrased my posting a little better but I don't think there is an RC fail there.romothesavior wrote:RC fail.
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Re: College rank vs. Law School Rank
Is there a strong correlation between SAT CR score & LSAT score? I have been told that there is a website that predicts LSAT scores based on one's CR score on the SAT.
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No.CanadianWolf wrote:Is there a strong correlation between SAT CR score & LSAT score? I have been told that there is a website that predicts LSAT scores based on one's CR score on the SAT.
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Reasoning ability fail.romothesavior wrote:RC fail.Bert wrote:I generally agree with DB's view on this. For example, if a school takes mainly 90%ile LSAT scorers and throws them into classes together, only 10% of them will be in the top 10% of the class, and 50% of them will be at the bottom end of their class ranking. You will get the result that LSAT score in no way correlates to performance in law school. These comparison threads really serve no useful purpose.
Everything he says makes perfect sense. Class rank at UG will have no meaningful relationship to class rank at law school. There are a couple of suppressed premises in there, but nothing that is not conventional wisdom.
On a related point, the people who absolutely dominated in my section last semester were people with huge LSATs and low UG GPAs
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My experience, and I'm sure disco will agree, is that higher LSAT scores generally do better in ls relative to their lower-scoring peers, especially when the difference is substantial.
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Re: College rank vs. Law School Rank
comments like that from a'nold make me second guess my school choice
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TITCR. It's practically a 1 to 1 correlation. One prof last year told us we could sit out the exam if we just submitted our LSDAS report, she'd sort out the curve for us without the messiness of actually taking the test.A'nold wrote:My experience, and I'm sure disco will agree, is that higher LSAT scores generally do better in ls relative to their lower-scoring peers, especially when the difference is substantial.
I actually don't know anybody with an LSAT score below the 75th percentile who even broke median at my school. Some of the <25% LSAT kids were dismissed early because their drooling was distracting during class.
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So is anyone going to answer the OP's question?
I doubt there is much of a correlation between college and law school GPA & rank, considering that most law school students at the same law school were probably roughly around the same class rank (or at least in the same quarter) in undergrad and now are dispersed throughout the spectrum.
That being said, I just happen to have the same undergrad GPA and Law school GPA down to a hundredth of a point thus far, but I am only done with one semester and this is certain to change. Class rank is 1-5% better compared to undergrad.
I doubt there is much of a correlation between college and law school GPA & rank, considering that most law school students at the same law school were probably roughly around the same class rank (or at least in the same quarter) in undergrad and now are dispersed throughout the spectrum.
That being said, I just happen to have the same undergrad GPA and Law school GPA down to a hundredth of a point thus far, but I am only done with one semester and this is certain to change. Class rank is 1-5% better compared to undergrad.
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Re: College rank vs. Law School Rank
It is just a statistical fact. Get used to it. No one is saying your LSAT score determines your LS grades, but denying the simple truth that they are correlated is fucking stupid.disco_barred wrote:TITCR. It's practically a 1 to 1 correlation. One prof last year told us we could sit out the exam if we just submitted our LSDAS report, she'd sort out the curve for us without the messiness of actually taking the test.A'nold wrote:My experience, and I'm sure disco will agree, is that higher LSAT scores generally do better in ls relative to their lower-scoring peers, especially when the difference is substantial.
I actually don't know anybody with an LSAT score below the 75th percentile who even broke median at my school. Some of the <25% LSAT kids were dismissed early because their drooling was distracting during class.
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Now that I'm done lol'ing-- There have been multiple studies done on this, and the median correlation between LSAT score and 1L performance is 0.33, according to this study: http://www.lsac.org/pdfs/LSAT-Score-Pre ... rmance.pdfdisco_barred wrote:TITCR. It's practically a 1 to 1 correlation. One prof last year told us we could sit out the exam if we just submitted our LSDAS report, she'd sort out the curve for us without the messiness of actually taking the test.A'nold wrote:My experience, and I'm sure disco will agree, is that higher LSAT scores generally do better in ls relative to their lower-scoring peers, especially when the difference is substantial.
I actually don't know anybody with an LSAT score below the 75th percentile who even broke median at my school. Some of the <25% LSAT kids were dismissed early because their drooling was distracting during class.
I once asked YCRevolution to make me a 1L GPA Predictor. He told me it would be quite impossible, for just this reason.
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I'm not sure how to interpret a .33 correlation though, because it doesn't address the extent of LSAT differences. I imagine students with 175 LSAT scores would outrank students with 150 LSAT scores at a much higher rate than 167s would outrank 158s.
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In all seriousness, you could have taken the LSAT cold and drunk with the flu, scored a 148, and finish first in your class against median LSATs of like 160, although I would definitely say the odds are against you if you studied for 6 months, took a course, and "upped" your score to a 150 while the median at your school is like a 157.....
At least at my school (a low ranked school) you can see the difference in the way people think/how quick they are and as a result their grades with LSAT score pretty accurately predicting this, at least from the people I've talked to.
As evidence, the academic services office at my school checked the stats for previous years and students w/ a 160 LSAT (above the school's 75%), averaged around a 3.0 which is Dean's List here. Median for these students was like top 1/4. I mean, yeah, you might not get a perfect correlation where all of the >75% LSAT kids are in the top 10% of the class, but that is a pretty dang strong correlation for relative success.
At least at my school (a low ranked school) you can see the difference in the way people think/how quick they are and as a result their grades with LSAT score pretty accurately predicting this, at least from the people I've talked to.
As evidence, the academic services office at my school checked the stats for previous years and students w/ a 160 LSAT (above the school's 75%), averaged around a 3.0 which is Dean's List here. Median for these students was like top 1/4. I mean, yeah, you might not get a perfect correlation where all of the >75% LSAT kids are in the top 10% of the class, but that is a pretty dang strong correlation for relative success.
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right, because it's a low ranked school with a wide range of LSAT scores, spanning a wide range of percentiles.A'nold wrote: At least at my school (a low ranked school) you can see the difference in the way people think/how quick they are and as a result their grades with LSAT score pretty accurately predicting this, at least from the people I've talked to.
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So few people took the LSAT sick or something like that that its not even worth analyzing. I think its safe to assume that students almost always put themselves in the best position to do well on the test.
I know at UMiami the scholarship students place in the top third 82% of the time and only 9% of the non-scholarship students place in the top third.
I'm concerned, because I think my rational expectation is to fall in the middle of the class where I deposited, whereas at the schools I turned down I think I would have done very well. I can't help but feel like I made a mistake by going to a very challenging college where I was only in the middle of the class, and that it's going to happen to me all over again in law school.
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I know at UMiami the scholarship students place in the top third 82% of the time and only 9% of the non-scholarship students place in the top third.
I'm concerned, because I think my rational expectation is to fall in the middle of the class where I deposited, whereas at the schools I turned down I think I would have done very well. I can't help but feel like I made a mistake by going to a very challenging college where I was only in the middle of the class, and that it's going to happen to me all over again in law school.
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This was my hypothesis as well: At any given school, the smaller the range of LSAT scores, the lower the correlation between entering LSAT and 1L GPA.superserial wrote:right, because it's a low ranked school with a wide range of LSAT scores, spanning a wide range of percentiles.A'nold wrote: At least at my school (a low ranked school) you can see the difference in the way people think/how quick they are and as a result their grades with LSAT score pretty accurately predicting this, at least from the people I've talked to.
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GPA FAIL. Law School FAIL.tome wrote:Reasoning ability fail.romothesavior wrote:RC fail.Bert wrote:I generally agree with DB's view on this. For example, if a school takes mainly 90%ile LSAT scorers and throws them into classes together, only 10% of them will be in the top 10% of the class, and 50% of them will be at the bottom end of their class ranking. You will get the result that LSAT score in no way correlates to performance in law school. These comparison threads really serve no useful purpose.
Everything he says makes perfect sense. Class rank at UG will have no meaningful relationship to class rank at law school. There are a couple of suppressed premises in there, but nothing that is not conventional wisdom.
On a related point, the people who absolutely dominated in my section last semester were people with huge LSATs and low UG GPAs
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