What are average softs? Forum

copingtrope · Post by **copingtrope** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:21 pm

There are countless threads on this topic.

jkhalfa · Post by **jkhalfa** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:53 pm

Right, with no good answers

Robbin Blue · Post by **Robbin Blue** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:58 pm

There's a great post breaking this down with specific examples on the last page of the Weak Softs thread. If you have to ask, your softs are average at best.

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... &start=250

jkhalfa · Post by **jkhalfa** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 7:04 pm

I also have a double major so I might be average then? That chart doesn't say what combinations of softs do. Does 1 "average" + 1 "minor" = "above average"?

I guess the answer to this is that nobody really knows anything about softs and they aren't that important anyway.

copingtrope · Post by **copingtrope** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:39 pm

jkhalfa wrote:Right, with no good answers

jkhalfa wrote:That chart doesn't say what combinations of softs do. Does 1 "average" + 1 "minor" = "above average"?

If you're looking for some sort of equation, then of course you'll think there are "no good answers" out there. The difficulty of softs is that they are, for the most part, unquantifiable.

jkhalfa · Post by **jkhalfa** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:44 pm

Cellar-door · Post by **Cellar-door** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:51 pm

There are no average or weak softs.

There are two categories: a few strong softs, and things which are irrelevant.

copingtrope · Post by **copingtrope** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:52 pm

If you're above both medians, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about (except for tippity-top schools--they're basically unpredictable).

haus · Post by **haus** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:02 pm

If you think you have a strong soft, look on the Yale or Harvard incoming class profile page and consider if your soft would be something that they would include on their pages.

Yale Law Incoming Student Profile

Harvard Law Incoming Student Profile

copingtrope · Post by **copingtrope** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:04 pm

haus wrote:If you think you have a strong soft, look on the Yale or Harvard incoming class profile page and consider if your soft would be something that they would include on their page if you were in the class.

Yale Law Incoming Student Profile

Harvard Law Incoming Student Profile

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jkhalfa · Post by **jkhalfa** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:13 pm

hichvichwoh wrote:Writer for a feminist blog

Lol'd. I better make a tumblr and start railing against the patriarchy.

It's interesting that Yale has a lot fewer "no name" schools represented than Harvard, but that's also probably because of their smaller class.

What about scholarships? Are most merit scholarships GPA+LSAT or do you have to be a special snowflake to get big money?

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