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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
When will the 3.0 versions of part-time and non-100 ranked schools be available? I'm super eager for the part-time version!
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
Sorry to hear your without power - hope it will be up soon.YCrevolution wrote:It was going to be today. Unfortunately, we had a big storm hit Charlottesville last night and my apartment is still without power. I'm at a place with power now, but the most recent file I need is on my computer (at my apartment, which won't turn on without electricity).angiej wrote:When will the 3.0 versions of part-time and non-100 ranked schools be available? I'm super eager for the part-time version!
So I'll probably try and get it out early next week. The only thing they need is updated USNWR data.
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
Law School Predictor: iPhone Version?
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
How reliable is this thing? URM seems like a wildcard if your not AA, Mex Amer, or Puerto Rican. Does everyone feel this is a good tool to base your application decisions on?
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
grrr . . .how much longer? Oh the suspense!angiej wrote:Sorry to hear your without power - hope it will be up soon.YCrevolution wrote:It was going to be today. Unfortunately, we had a big storm hit Charlottesville last night and my apartment is still without power. I'm at a place with power now, but the most recent file I need is on my computer (at my apartment, which won't turn on without electricity).angiej wrote:When will the 3.0 versions of part-time and non-100 ranked schools be available? I'm super eager for the part-time version!
So I'll probably try and get it out early next week. The only thing they need is updated USNWR data.
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
If you are considered Mex-American, do you get the full URM boost. In other words, I found out that I do have Mexican blood in my veins. So is using the URM option in the predictor accurate for me?
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
If it says I'm an admit at georgetown we will know for certain there is a problem.YCrevolution wrote:I broke LSP.
Sort of. At any rate, some of the predictions for v3.0 unranked full-time and all part-time programs seem rather odd right now. I think I might know why (I fiddled with a formula that I shouldn't have), but I'll try and fix it.
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
Can anyone confirm if the USNWR data used for the Law School Predictor matches up with the most newly released ABA law school data (under the school list section of LSAC)?
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
Will the state residency feature be working too?YCrevolution wrote:With some luck, all Law School Predictor datasets (top 100 schools, unranked, and PT) should be updated to Version 3.0 or 3.1 (updated index formulas) by the end of this weekend.
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
Are you working towards implementing predictions for Canadian law schools? It might be far from accurate due to Canadian law schools not being as numbered based, but I think it would still be a welcome addition. If you need some insight to the Canadian law schools I'd be willing to help out (as would a few others on the Canadian law school forum).
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
You might consider using data from admissions and rejections threads on http://www.lawstudents.ca/forums/ as it would provide admissions data from the last 5 years or so.Nightrunner wrote:That is a good idea, but I'm not sure it would work. I'll definitely defer to one of our more mathematically-inclined persons, but my gut feeling is that the sample size provided on LSN is not large enough to do a valid regression.AverageTutoring wrote:Are you working towards implementing predictions for Canadian law schools? It might be far from accurate due to Canadian law schools not being as numbered based, but I think it would still be a welcome addition. If you need some insight to the Canadian law schools I'd be willing to help out (as would a few others on the Canadian law school forum).
If Canadian schools were to be added though, you would need to employ the services of somebody who knows Canada very well. For instance, people every year get rejected from Windsor/Ottawa with high 170s and great GPAs but are accepted on the first day at other schools. It's actually quite wierd. But if you know the system, it's possible to predict it with reasonable accuracy.
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
I think the beauty of LSN is the data is all right there, no digging manually through a fourm....
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
You are el awesome.YCrevolution wrote:Law School Predictor should be updated to Version 3.1 or 3.2 before publication of LSAT scores. I've finally got a break coming up and I anticipate less than 12 hours of further work to complete the newest version. Formulas will be updated and data used will be updated. This will affect predictions for all FT and PT programs.
Currently still testing state residency feature. I'm also looking into adding Canadian law schools.
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
12 hours? Awesome!YCrevolution wrote:Law School Predictor should be updated to Version 3.1 or 3.2 before publication of LSAT scores. I've finally got a break coming up and I anticipate less than 12 hours of further work to complete the newest version. Formulas will be updated and data used will be updated. This will affect predictions for all FT and PT programs.
Currently still testing state residency feature. I'm also looking into adding Canadian law schools.
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
I really appreciate all the hard work put into this site, but does it really make sense that someone with a 158/3.95 should be a "strong consider" at Fordham p/t, when the medians are a couple of lsat points above that?
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
I personally would prefer more pessimism for the splitters, particularly the extreme splitters. I'm not a fan of false optimism
Although, all of the calculators point me to a few schools that I am deeply interested in which I suppose is promising.
Although, all of the calculators point me to a few schools that I am deeply interested in which I suppose is promising.
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Re: Law School Predictor: Version 3.0 "The" Thread
There needs to be a "like" buttonstuffystuff wrote:I personally would prefer more pessimism for the splitters, particularly the extreme splitters. I'm not a fan of false optimism
Although, all of the calculators point me to a few schools that I am deeply interested in which I suppose is promising.
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