Law School Admissions Probability Calculator (based on LSN) Forum
- palm23
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All 5 cycles.Another question: Is the data just from last cycle, or the last few cycles?
Also, I promise to divulge the algorithm once I fix it. I realize the many, many flaws with it, and I will try to perfect and then divulge it so that people will know about it. When it is done, it will probably do all sorts of things, including giving more weight to recent applicants and such.
- waytofailself
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This is true, though I am not applying to a school of the caliber of NYU. I assume that admissions have gotten tougher for many schools are the years have gone on, but the ones I checked on LSN have stayed relatively consistent (except for some like UNC which have gone down...and the site doesn't take into account that I'm an NC resident).f he uses data points from all of the cycles, the report may be a bit too optimistic. Look at NYU's accepts from the earliest cycle and the latest cycle:
Hey, if it's a site that'll make me feel a bit better about my chances, I'll take it. I'm tired of freaking out
- Haribo
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Sigh:
Chance is off, obviously, but my numbers are looking good for Harvard and below and not so good for YS. Funny how that works
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Yale University 72.04% 0% 0 - 3
Stanford University 81.95% 0% 0 - 5
Harvard University 89.32% 100% 6 - 0
Columbia University 95.58% 100% 8 - 0
- waytofailself
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That's awesome, and I'm sure some other people may have ideas to improve it further as well (I'm not a math wiz or anything, I just like to see how the numbers got there).Also, I promise to divulge the algorithm once I fix it. I realize the many, many flaws with it, and I will try to perfect and then divulge it so that people will know about it. When it is done, it will probably do all sorts of things, including giving more weight to recent applicants and such.
Very impressive site.
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please please delete the chances column. it is highly misleading.
My UVA, Duke and Georgetown all have chances below 75%, even though the record column is 100% for all 3!!!
otherwise the site is great, and I have wondered why no one has been using the LSN data. I have used it in a bunch of my own excel spreadsheets.
My UVA, Duke and Georgetown all have chances below 75%, even though the record column is 100% for all 3!!!
otherwise the site is great, and I have wondered why no one has been using the LSN data. I have used it in a bunch of my own excel spreadsheets.
- Kompressor
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I like how my chances for BU are 24%, yet 77% of the people with my numbers last year got in. Not really sure how that works.
Yes, other than the chances column, seems great if reliable.
Yes, other than the chances column, seems great if reliable.
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- Splitt3r
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He said in a previous post that it doesn't give more weight to more recent years now, but that he'll probably adjust the algorithm to do that in the future.Do you weigh the more recent years higher?
For everyone saying that the calculator is not very accurate, remember that this is an early version and it's still being worked on. It's good to give feedback on how the numbers are off for you, but saying things like "this sucks" and "take X part off because it doesn't work" isn't really productive.
For me, I think the chances column is overly optimistic, as it gives me over a 50% chance at everyone outside of HYS with a 177/3.5. This doesn't seem right to me, especially for say, Berkeley.
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