Why do schools care so much about their LSAT MEDIAN? Forum

[Xiaolong]

From the bcg law School Guide 2009

"LSAT scores provide another important means for classifying law students. U.S. News & World Report slightly changed its method of ranking law schools based on LSAT scores in 2006. No longer is a school’s median LSAT score a criterion for ranking; rather, the range of LSAT scores from the 25th to the 75th percentile is reported and used to rank the school."

So schools schould look towards raising their 25th/75th percentile to rise in the rankings, correct?

[im_blue]

They changed back to using median LSAT and GPA.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/educatio ... ology.html

[skip james]

They changed back to using median LSAT and GPA.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/educatio ... ology.html

dude, that article was from april 2009. it describes how they formulated 2009's rankings.

[Xiaolong]

They changed back to using median LSAT and GPA.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/educatio ... ology.html

dude, that article was from april 2009. it describes how they formulated 2009's rankings.

Apparently im_blue is right on this one. Surprising that such an important change would go unnoticed by the people at BCG.

[im_blue]

They changed back to using median LSAT and GPA.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/educatio ... ology.html

dude, that article was from april 2009. it describes how they formulated 2009's rankings.

Which is when the most recent rankings were released.