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better to be a splitter, or at median?
i know every school is different, but generally speaking are your chances for admission better if you have either a gpa or lsat at or around the 75th percentile and the other at/around the 25th percentile as opposed to being at the median for both?
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Re: better to be a splitter, or at median?
I'd say, generally, LSAT 75th + GPA 25th > Median Both > GPA 75th; LSAT 25th. There are exceptions (Boalt).
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Re: better to be a splitter, or at median?
+1 and add UCLA to the exceptions.superserial wrote:I'd say, generally, LSAT 75th + GPA 25th > Median Both > GPA 75th; LSAT 25th. There are exceptions (Boalt).
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Does Boalt care a lot about GPA?
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No one knows what Boalt actually cares about if you look at their admissions patterns.Crocodile Duck wrote:Does Boalt care a lot about GPA?
But yes, Boalt and Yale are the two most GPA heavy schools in the T14.
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Re: better to be a splitter, or at median?
good to know, I have a 3.67John_rizzy_rawls wrote:No one knows what Boalt actually cares about if you look at their admissions patterns.Crocodile Duck wrote:Does Boalt care a lot about GPA?
But yes, Boalt and Yale are the two most GPA heavy schools in the T14.
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Unless you're a URM, that locks you out of HYS and gives you a pretty slight chance at Berk depending on your LSAT.Crocodile Duck wrote:good to know, I have a 3.67John_rizzy_rawls wrote:No one knows what Boalt actually cares about if you look at their admissions patterns.Crocodile Duck wrote:Does Boalt care a lot about GPA?
But yes, Boalt and Yale are the two most GPA heavy schools in the T14.
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Relevant links:John_rizzy_rawls wrote:No one knows what Boalt actually cares about if you look at their admissions patterns.Crocodile Duck wrote:Does Boalt care a lot about GPA?
But yes, Boalt and Yale are the two most GPA heavy schools in the T14.
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Re: better to be a splitter, or at median?
I want to go to McGeorge. My LSAT is 165.John_rizzy_rawls wrote:Unless you're a URM, that locks you out of HYS and gives you a pretty slight chance at Berk depending on your LSAT.Crocodile Duck wrote:good to know, I have a 3.67John_rizzy_rawls wrote:No one knows what Boalt actually cares about if you look at their admissions patterns.Crocodile Duck wrote:Does Boalt care a lot about GPA?
But yes, Boalt and Yale are the two most GPA heavy schools in the T14.
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I wouldn't agree with this, especially for the many T-14 schools which have a 75th and a median LSAT one point apart.superserial wrote:I'd say, generally, LSAT 75th + GPA 25th > Median Both > GPA 75th; LSAT 25th. There are exceptions (Boalt).
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Re: better to be a splitter, or at median?
Don't do this.Crocodile Duck wrote:I want to go to McGeorge. My LSAT is 165.
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Re: better to be a splitter, or at median?
Depends on your tolerance for volatility. Being at the medians allows you to better predict your admissions cycle, and will get you into a large number of top schools in your numbers range. Being a splitter will get you into a ton of lower ranked schools and have wildly differing admissions results at the higher end. Some splitters will be fortunate and get into splitter friendly schools, but many will not. And those who get in will likely have to play the waitlist game, and hope they get in at the last minute, instead of having the security of knowing where they'll be early on.
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Re: better to be a splitter, or at median?
I might have read that Boalt, more than any other school, places the relatively greatest amount of emphasis on GPA.Crocodile Duck wrote:Does Boalt care a lot about GPA?
But, even if I did read that, it might have been on TLS, and simply reading something on TLS does little to establish its veracity.
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+1Tiago Splitter wrote:I wouldn't agree with this, especially for the many T-14 schools which have a 75th and a median LSAT one point apart.superserial wrote:I'd say, generally, LSAT 75th + GPA 25th > Median Both > GPA 75th; LSAT 25th. There are exceptions (Boalt).
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Re: better to be a splitter, or at median?
Boalt places higher GPA emphasis relative to LSAT than SLS? I don't think so. Splitters do much better at Boalt. 178/3.75 is autoadmit at Boalt, <10% at SLS.
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Re: better to be a splitter, or at median?
The fact that a school has higher selectivity overall is irrelevant in regards to the proportional importance of each part of a contingent whole.donmincho wrote:Boalt places higher GPA emphasis relative to LSAT than SLS? I don't think so. Splitters do much better at Boalt. 178/3.75 is autoadmit at Boalt, <10% at SLS.
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Doesn't US News reward splitters?
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Re: better to be a splitter, or at median?
Boalt has second lowest acceptance rate in the t14 after YLS. Now, SLS is still more selective, presumably due to self selective app pool, but the statistic cited above doesn't necessarily only show more selectivity, could very well indicate an aversion toward splitters. Thanks for the colorful prose though.megagnarley wrote:The fact that a school has higher selectivity overall is irrelevant in regards to the proportional importance of each part of a contingent whole.donmincho wrote:Boalt places higher GPA emphasis relative to LSAT than SLS? I don't think so. Splitters do much better at Boalt. 178/3.75 is autoadmit at Boalt, <10% at SLS.
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Re: better to be a splitter, or at median?
3.67 is a likely admit at HLS with 179-180.John_rizzy_rawls wrote:Unless you're a URM, that locks you out of HYS and gives you a pretty slight chance at Berk depending on your LSAT.Crocodile Duck wrote:good to know, I have a 3.67John_rizzy_rawls wrote:No one knows what Boalt actually cares about if you look at their admissions patterns.Crocodile Duck wrote:Does Boalt care a lot about GPA?
But yes, Boalt and Yale are the two most GPA heavy schools in the T14.
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