T14 law schools that look at gpa more than lsat ? Forum

[Louis1127]

u should max out your lsat score, no matter what it is and no matter how long it takes. And then go from there.

[Yea All Right]

My post in this thread is more general than that. When the median-raising motivation doesn't apply for a school, what makes them pick a 172 over 170/169 if 173 is the median. At that point the higher one seems to only have a soft value for the school. Do they always pick 172 over 169 all other numbers being equal and why?

Surprised no one else has mentioned this, but it would still be better for a hypothetical school to select the 172 over the 169 because a 172 is statistically rarer and thus more valuable. It is in their interest to gobble up as many of these hard-to-find LSATs as they can, while they can, in case they decide to accept a few exceptional applicants with low LSATs and want to still maintain a 172-173 median.

Yeah, thats not really what we're talking about. We are talking about why schools take higher LSATs when it won't affect their medians i.e. Yale taking a 169 over a 160 or Pepperdine taking a 170 over a 163.

Ah but it will affect the law schools' medians in the sense that it'll make it easier to maintain them and/or keep them as high as possible.

[xSOCALJDx]

Berkeley

[prelawTN]

As an actual splitter, I'm fairly annoyed that someone would worry more about which schools will love your GPA (which congrats for having it) rather than just put in the time to learn the LSAT. You no doubt in 4 years of making A's encountered a test you had to study hard to learn so it just seems that it'd be far more logical to retake rather than leave yourself open to only the GPA centered schools. I know that if it were so easy as to take one test to fix my GPA, I would do so but that ship has sailed. Just my opinion