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What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:15 pm
by jkhalfa
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Re: What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:21 pm
by copingtrope
There are countless threads on this topic.
Re: What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:53 pm
by jkhalfa
Right, with no good answers
Re: What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:58 pm
by Robbin Blue
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
Re: What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 7:04 pm
by jkhalfa
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.
Re: What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:39 pm
by copingtrope
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.
Re: What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:44 pm
by jkhalfa
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Re: What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:51 pm
by Cellar-door
There are no average or weak softs.
There are two categories: a few strong softs, and things which are irrelevant.
Re: What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:52 pm
by copingtrope
If you're above both medians, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about (except for tippity-top schools--they're basically unpredictable).
Re: What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:02 pm
by haus
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
Re: What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:04 pm
by copingtrope
Time to sign up for unicycling lessons.
Re: What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:05 pm
by hichvichwoh
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Re: What are average softs?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:13 pm
by jkhalfa
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?