number of applicants each year with these stats Forum

[anstone1988]

How many applicants each year have the following stats:

1. 176+
2. 3.96+
3. 176+ and 3.96+

I guess it would be easy to determine the number of applicants with 176+, but what about the other two?

[JD2014]

Under 1%

[anstone1988]

Under 1%

Interesting.

[splitmuch]

How many applicants each year have the following stats:

1. 176+
2. 3.96+
3. 176+ and 3.96+

I guess it would be easy to determine the number of applicants with 176+, but what about the other two?

Well .4 percent have 176+, I'm guessing about 1 % have 3.96+, which if they were independent of each other would mean about .04%. However, they are likely not independent so I would say likely .03% of applicants which of 67000 applicants means about 20 total. That does seem a little low to me, though.

Edit for being dumb, they are likely correlated so I should have revised my prediction upward, not downward. Lets say .06% at which point were looking at around 40 total students.

[FantasticMrFox]

Are you looking at Harvard 75th percentiles?
I think the number-answers to your question is only relevant in terms of admissions to individual schools, no? It'll be higher in the upper end of the rankings compared to some other schools.

[lawyerwannabe]

You cannot simply look at a school's 75th percentile for LSAT / GPA. In many cases, the high 75th percentiles are a product of a students with a high GPA and a lower LSAT and students with a lower GPA and high LSAT (of course, being relative to the school).

[FantasticMrFox]

You cannot simply look at a school's 75th percentile for LSAT / GPA. In many cases, the high 75th percentiles are a product of a students with a high GPA and a lower LSAT and students with a lower GPA and high LSAT (of course, being relative to the school).

Hence, his three-part question but I feel like this is rather "putting the cart before the horse"

[albanach]

Well .4 percent have 176+, I'm guessing about 1 % have 3.96+, which if they were independent of each other would mean about .04%. However, they are likely not independent so I would say likely .03% of applicants which of 67000 applicants means about 20 total. That does seem a little low to me, though.

.4% of test takers have 176+. I'd expect lots of test takers with low LSATs choose not to apply, meaning that significantly more than .4% of applicants have 176+.

[fastforward]

Here is a link to the answer. It's by Zen of 180 based on published LSAC data. The scarcity or abundance of a given score is a very important issue to grasp for those aspiring to a T6+- school.

Is anyone aware of a reliable source for GPA data?

[splitmuch]

Well .4 percent have 176+, I'm guessing about 1 % have 3.96+, which if they were independent of each other would mean about .04%. However, they are likely not independent so I would say likely .03% of applicants which of 67000 applicants means about 20 total. That does seem a little low to me, though.

.4% of test takers have 176+. I'd expect lots of test takers with low LSATs choose not to apply, meaning that significantly more than .4% of applicants have 176+.

good point

[fastforward]

No need to "guess" or "expect" -- the actual numbers are available.

[anstone1988]

No need to "guess" or "expect" -- the actual numbers are available.

Can you elaborate?

[ahduth]

What exactly is the point of this thread?

[JD2014]

What exactly is the point of this thread?

OP presumably has these stats and is trying to handicap his odds at HY.

[ahduth]

What exactly is the point of this thread?

OP presumably has these stats and is trying to handicap his odds at HY.

Isn't there a "what are my chances" forum?

Whatever. I posted this in another thread, but I think it now belongs here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt8r8fumEYY

Enjoy.

[ahduth]

Now I'm just checking out the TLS mobile interface. Seems pretty cool actually.

[anstone1988]

What exactly is the point of this thread?

OP presumably has these stats and is trying to handicap his odds at HY.

Isn't there a "what are my chances" forum?

Whatever. I posted this in another thread, but I think it now belongs here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt8r8fumEYY

Enjoy.

Thanks. This question just popped into my head one day at work. It's one of the more interesting questions that popped into my head during work; I go to a TTT UG and couldn't find paid work anywhere other than the local grocery store.

[fastforward]

At the risk of repeating myself . .

Here is a link to the answer. It's by Zen of 180 based on published LSAC data. The scarcity or abundance of a given score is a very important issue to grasp for those aspiring to a T6+- school.

Is anyone aware of a reliable source for GPA data?

[hipstermafia]

Now I'm just checking out the TLS mobile interface. Seems pretty cool actually.

cool story brah