C/O 2016 median lsat/gpa/class size Forum

[rebexness]

This cycle is gonna be fantastic.

[banjo]

It was common for schools to provide only splits last year. We only had all the medians after the rankings came out in march.

[RetakeFrenzy]

It was common for schools to provide only splits last year. We only had all the medians after the rankings came out in march.

Yes. NYU, Penn, Harvard, and a few others only reported 25/75 percentiles

[BigZuck]

It was common for schools to provide only splits last year. We only had all the medians after the rankings came out in march.

Yes. NYU, Penn, Harvard, and a few others only reported 25/75 percentiles

Yeah, I remembered Harvard doing that. Forgot about the others. I just don't get the point.

[Motivator9]

It was common for schools to provide only splits last year. We only had all the medians after the rankings came out in march.

Yes. NYU, Penn, Harvard, and a few others only reported 25/75 percentiles

Yeah, I remembered Harvard doing that. Forgot about the others. I just don't get the point.

I posted a question about Harvard's median this year, and some people were mocking me. I wanted to see the official info on their median, and it wasn't on their website.

[AlanShore]

BC didn't release the median lsat/gpa yesterday during orientation but class size dropped from 245 to 230.

[KD35]

Lewis & Clark is down 37 students for the class? Lol...that's pretty bad.

[20141023]

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[shifty_eyed]

That is really interesting that half of the people who will be attending Berkeley for the Class of 2016 had either a 166, 167, 168 or 169 LSAT score. That has got to be one of the smallest 25th~75th spreads of any school, and you can't get any smaller than that in terms of difference between 25th (166) and 50th (167) percentile scores (well, I suppose you could if they were the same number, but you get my point).

Yeah, it usually seems to be that 50th and 75th are closer together, and the 25th lags behind by a few points (like with 163/167/169)

[RetakeFrenzy]

That is really interesting that half of the people who will be attending Berkeley for the Class of 2016 had either a 166, 167, 168 or 169 LSAT score. That has got to be one of the smallest 25th~75th spreads of any school, and you can't get any smaller than that in terms of difference between 25th (166) and 50th (167) percentile scores (well, I suppose you could if they were the same number, but you get my point).

Yeah, it usually seems to be that 50th and 75th are closer together, and the 25th lags behind by a few points (like with 163/167/169)

The spread is actually identical to that of Cornell's last year. 166-167-169.

[altoid99]

Updated with numbers from Florida, Gonzaga, and Memphis, for all those who care. Please post numbers for other schools if/when you have them so I can update further.

[20141023]

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[BigZuck]

UT is at 322. No word on medians yet

[Lavitz]

Not much to report from Cornell's orientation.

Class size is supposed to be 197, but Dean Geiger said 2 people hadn't shown up yet, so I suppose that number might change.

[Steveloblaw]

Received a packet from Michigan, which included the following stats about the incoming 2013 class:

Applied: 4,900
Enrolled: 315
Women: 48%
Minorities: 23%
GPA: 3.53/3.72/3.83
LSAT: 165/168/170
Mean Age: 24
75% 1+ years out of Undergrad

[Dr. Dre]

HOLY SHIET Mich DROPED 1 POINT

[Monochromatic Oeuvre]

UVA drops 22 students, Michigan drops 29 students, and both of them lose a point.

Your move, Penn.

[longlivetheking]

UVA drops 22 students, Michigan drops 29 students, and both of them lose a point.

Your move, Penn.

mono you're gonna get slaughtered in the median guessing game.

[esypsylmnsqsy]

In general are these dropping LSAT medians going to benefit splitters, or do you think it will be a wash because they are still trying to maintain GPA's and reducing class sizes?

[Nova]

In general are these dropping LSAT medians going to benefit splitters, or do you think it will be a wash because they are still trying to maintain GPA's and reducing class sizes?

Less high scoring applicants benefits splitters

[longlivetheking]

In general are these dropping LSAT medians going to benefit splitters, or do you think it will be a wash because they are still trying to maintain GPA's and reducing class sizes?

Less high scoring applicants benefits splitters

should be taken with a pinch of salt. the degree of the 'benefit' is highly debatable.

remember: splitters gonna split

[Monochromatic Oeuvre]

UVA drops 22 students, Michigan drops 29 students, and both of them lose a point.

Your move, Penn.

mono you're gonna get slaughtered in the median guessing game.

My notion was that drops were not going to be as awful as was being predicted because those schools didn't seem particularly desperate for median or above median LSATs. These don't look like results of schools tremendously worried about dropping medians:





But yeah, I might be last for not going all Chicken Little on the whole thing.

[isuperserial]

In general are these dropping LSAT medians going to benefit splitters, or do you think it will be a wash because they are still trying to maintain GPA's and reducing class sizes?

Less high scoring applicants benefits splitters

Less high scoring applicants probably benefits everyone, since it redefines what a "high score" means in relation to the best schools admitting the candidates with the best credentials.

[longlivetheking]

UVA drops 22 students, Michigan drops 29 students, and both of them lose a point.

Your move, Penn.

mono you're gonna get slaughtered in the median guessing game.

My notion was that drops were not going to be as awful as was being predicted because those schools didn't seem particularly desperate for median or above median LSATs. These don't look like results of schools tremendously worried about dropping medians:





But yeah, I might be last for not going all Chicken Little on the whole thing.

fair point, i think with synchronized drops in lsat median no dean is gonna get fired. i think, as discussed in the case of virginia, schools are choosing to save some money, instead of splurging on high lsats.

conclusion: if you're paying sticker and have a high lsat and your gpa isn't shit, auto-admit.

[Monochromatic Oeuvre]

In general are these dropping LSAT medians going to benefit splitters, or do you think it will be a wash because they are still trying to maintain GPA's and reducing class sizes?

Less high scoring applicants benefits splitters

Important distinction: That fact that there are fewer 170+ students benefits splitters, who become a more scarce commodity. However, the fact itself that LSAT medians are declining is harmful to splitters. Suppose you're a 3.5/173 looking to go to UVA. The median drop is certainly a negative thing for you. You are still above the LSAT median and below the GPA median. However, all of the sudden a whole bunch of 169 students with better GPAs than yours now have a median LSAT, and are thus better candidates for admission than you next cycle, when they wouldn't have been last cycle. The great splitter hope was that schools would relax GPA requirements in order to maintain their medians, but three years of data suggest that didn't really happen, with the exception of NU's "absolutely anyone with a 170" policy last cycle.