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adammac17 wrote:Whose the dude on the left in the photo?

androstan wrote:http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/ ... issions_d/

The University of Illinois College of Law has been publicly censured and fined $250,000 for intentionally reporting and publishing false admissions data in six out of the last 10 years.

Betharl wrote:The biggest sanction there seems to be the elimination of I-leap. A program that allowed high GPA Illinois undergrads to be accepted to the College of Law without taking the LSAT. I think they usually took 15-20 kids through this program every year. The elimination of that program could definetely affect their numbers.

adammac17 wrote:Especially when they reported the people without LSATs as having received 180s.

During an interview with investigators, Pless stated that he put the 4.0 GPAs into the
Dashboard for the iLEAP students as “placeholders,” which he forgot to update later with the
students’ correct GPAs. Pless did not provide an explanation as to why placeholders were used
for these Urbana-Champaign undergraduate students instead of the students’ real GPAs, which
were readily accessible. According to Pless, this was one of multiple inadvertent errors that he
made in compiling LSAT and GPA data for the Class of 2014. All the other student profile data
contained in the tabs of the April 14th Dashboard Report are consistent with LSAC data.

Yukos wrote:

adammac17 wrote:Especially when they reported the people without LSATs as having received 180s.

Thats not true at all lol - as a UIUC student who read through the report pretty well, the ileap kids were excluded from the LSAT calculations.

Sorry you're right. iLeap people had their GPAs inputted as 4.0, even though they had actual GPAs. Their LSAT was unaffected.

During an interview with investigators, Pless stated that he put the 4.0 GPAs into the
Dashboard for the iLEAP students as “placeholders,” which he forgot to update later with the
students’ correct GPAs. Pless did not provide an explanation as to why placeholders were used
for these Urbana-Champaign undergraduate students instead of the students’ real GPAs, which
were readily accessible. According to Pless, this was one of multiple inadvertent errors that he
made in compiling LSAT and GPA data for the Class of 2014. All the other student profile data
contained in the tabs of the April 14th Dashboard Report are consistent with LSAC data.

2014 wrote:I wonder what Pless is up to nowadays.