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Dipsychus

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GRE: hard data on interquartile range?

Post by Dipsychus » Fri Sep 13, 2019 12:19 pm

Perhaps it’s too soon for the data to have statistical meaning (I don’t think so but that’s beside the point)? Applicants who apply to law school with a GRE only would like to know what the 25th and median and 75th percentile of admitted students are, over the last two cycles!

One problem — for law schools but of course not for PhD programs — is that there is no one composite score to be reported. There’s the Verbal Reasoning score, the Quantitative Reasoning score (both scaled 120-170), and the Analytical Writing score (1 to 6).

Even if there are no hard data, are there anecdotal reports?

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Re: GRE: hard data on interquartile range?

Post by The Lsat Airbender » Fri Sep 13, 2019 1:01 pm

No, and schools aren't going to publish it unless they're forced to. Even if we had them, interquartile ranges wouldn't be very helpful because the sample size is so small - you wouldn't see the year-on-year stability that LSAT 25/50/75th percentiles have.

If you're serious about law as a career then you should probably just take the LSAT and ignore the GRE.

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