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LSATSCORES2012 wrote:So I took this down off the website, but I'm trying to make something equivalent in a spreadsheet form. Here's a really early version to play around with if anyone is interested... https://www.dropbox.com/s/271ibwj7aenwffg/rkgs.xls
Just has employment data and COA for now...
NU's focus on employers desires (such as really only taking students with work experience) seems to be paying off with the way they place. Definitely worth whatever hit to admissions they take that puts them towards the end of the T14 in US News.Regulus wrote:Thanks again for your work on this kind of stuff!
I was surprised to see that NU got a higher score than UChicago when I set it to focus only on big law - both for IL and for NY. (I took clerkships and academia out of the equation, which probably skewed it a little bit.) This is definitely fun to play with.
Nothing gets a boost. Quit saying this. You were told this in another thread and even if there were a boost it wouldn't match the topic of the thread.Varys wrote:This is interesting. So supposedly English/Literature and Soc/Psych/Anth all give you a boost? Those each seem like pretty easy degrees to be giving a boost unless it has more to do with reading and writing requirements of those majors.
It's not on topic? It is regarding material on the website that he provided via the link. Yep, pretty on topic. I do realize that those numbers though should be taken with a grain of salt, it is just interesting to see how they may be interpreted.hibiki wrote:Nothing gets a boost. Quit saying this. You were told this in another thread and even if there were a boost it wouldn't match the topic of the thread.Varys wrote:This is interesting. So supposedly English/Literature and Soc/Psych/Anth all give you a boost? Those each seem like pretty easy degrees to be giving a boost unless it has more to do with reading and writing requirements of those majors.
You are completely off-topic. Please stop posting your inane "analysis."Varys wrote:It's not on topic? It is regarding material on the website that he provided via the link. Yep, pretty on topic. I do realize that those numbers though should be taken with a grain of salt, it is just interesting to see how they may be interpreted.hibiki wrote:Nothing gets a boost. Quit saying this. You were told this in another thread and even if there were a boost it wouldn't match the topic of the thread.Varys wrote:This is interesting. So supposedly English/Literature and Soc/Psych/Anth all give you a boost? Those each seem like pretty easy degrees to be giving a boost unless it has more to do with reading and writing requirements of those majors.
I don't really even see analysis in the comment, just observation. Oh well doesn't matter.Yukos wrote:You are completely off-topic. Please stop posting your inane "analysis."Varys wrote:It's not on topic? It is regarding material on the website that he provided via the link. Yep, pretty on topic. I do realize that those numbers though should be taken with a grain of salt, it is just interesting to see how they may be interpreted.hibiki wrote:Nothing gets a boost. Quit saying this. You were told this in another thread and even if there were a boost it wouldn't match the topic of the thread.Varys wrote:This is interesting. So supposedly English/Literature and Soc/Psych/Anth all give you a boost? Those each seem like pretty easy degrees to be giving a boost unless it has more to do with reading and writing requirements of those majors.
Back on-topic, Making COA super important gets lulzy results like CUNY and University of Puerto Rico (that has a law school?) breaking the top 10. I have a feeling I'm gonna spend hours playing around with this (cause I'm a nerd).
Its medians aren't what hurt it, it's the peer assessment scores.john7234797 wrote:NU's focus on employers desires (such as really only taking students with work experience) seems to be paying off with the way they place. Definitely worth whatever hit to admissions they take that puts them towards the end of the T14 in US News.Regulus wrote:Thanks again for your work on this kind of stuff!
I was surprised to see that NU got a higher score than UChicago when I set it to focus only on big law - both for IL and for NY. (I took clerkships and academia out of the equation, which probably skewed it a little bit.) This is definitely fun to play with.
What do those entail?M458 wrote:Its medians aren't what hurt it, it's the peer assessment scores.john7234797 wrote:NU's focus on employers desires (such as really only taking students with work experience) seems to be paying off with the way they place. Definitely worth whatever hit to admissions they take that puts them towards the end of the T14 in US News.Regulus wrote:Thanks again for your work on this kind of stuff!
I was surprised to see that NU got a higher score than UChicago when I set it to focus only on big law - both for IL and for NY. (I took clerkships and academia out of the equation, which probably skewed it a little bit.) This is definitely fun to play with.
Here's how USNews describes it:john7234797 wrote:What do those entail?M458 wrote:Its medians aren't what hurt it, it's the peer assessment scores.john7234797 wrote:NU's focus on employers desires (such as really only taking students with work experience) seems to be paying off with the way they place. Definitely worth whatever hit to admissions they take that puts them towards the end of the T14 in US News.Regulus wrote:Thanks again for your work on this kind of stuff!
I was surprised to see that NU got a higher score than UChicago when I set it to focus only on big law - both for IL and for NY. (I took clerkships and academia out of the equation, which probably skewed it a little bit.) This is definitely fun to play with.
You can make it add up to 100 if you want, but really you're just applying weights to the different factors, so it doesn't have to add up to 100. (I realize this is different from what I said in the OP, but it's all based on the same principle, you just don't have to limit it to 100.)you'rethemannowdawg wrote:What does the program do if the input weights add up to more than 100%? When I clicked on the link, the defaults were employment 60, COA 30, USNWR 10, and Proximity 80.