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Penn Law Law Review GPA Cutoffs
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 7:01 pm
by Anonymous User
What are the gpa cutoffs for law review?
I've heard different things on TLS.
20 spots for grade on/20 spots for write on/10 spots for some discretionary combination of the two.
I've also heard that as long as you're in the top 10% or so of your section and you're not in the bottom 1/4 of the writing competition, then you're ok.
Which is it? and what are the GPA cutoffs?
Re: Penn Law Law Review GPA Cutoffs
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 8:58 pm
by OutCold
The spot allocation is correct (or close to correct). I can't help you with the GPA cutoffs.
Re: Penn Law Law Review GPA Cutoffs
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 3:39 pm
by Anonymous User
Anonymous User wrote:What are the gpa cutoffs for law review?
I've heard different things on TLS.
20 spots for grade on/20 spots for write on/10 spots for some discretionary combination of the two.
I've also heard that as long as you're in the top 10% or so of your section and you're not in the bottom 1/4 of the writing competition, then you're ok.
Which is it? and what are the GPA cutoffs?
There are 23 spots for grade-on, which are the top 23 people in the 1L class who ranked LR first, so long as they're in the top half of the writing competition scores (which is 60% edit/40% essay).
Once those people are chosen, they re-sort the spreadsheet and take the top 23 scores in the writing competition, provided those people are in the top 2/3 of the class by GPA and ranked LR first.
Then from the remaining people, they look at the top 25% and choose 9 based on their personal statements.
Re: Penn Law Law Review GPA Cutoffs
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 4:43 pm
by Nelson
Anonymous User wrote:Anonymous User wrote:What are the gpa cutoffs for law review?
I've heard different things on TLS.
20 spots for grade on/20 spots for write on/10 spots for some discretionary combination of the two.
I've also heard that as long as you're in the top 10% or so of your section and you're not in the bottom 1/4 of the writing competition, then you're ok.
Which is it? and what are the GPA cutoffs?
There are 23 spots for grade-on, which are the top 23 people in the 1L class who ranked LR first, so long as they're in the top half of the writing competition scores (which is 60% edit/40% essay).
Once those people are chosen, they re-sort the spreadsheet and take the top 23 scores in the writing competition, provided those people are in the top 2/3 of the class by GPA and ranked LR first.
Then from the remaining people, they look at the top 25% and choose 9 based on their personal statements.
This is right except they take the write ons first. So you don't actually need to be in the top 23 in the class to grade on if some of those people write on.
Re: Penn Law Law Review GPA Cutoffs
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 11:59 am
by Anonymous User
Anonymous User wrote:
Which is it? and what are the GPA cutoffs?
Any idea of a gpa range for top 2/3?
Re: Penn Law Law Review GPA Cutoffs
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:29 am
by WhirledWorld
Anonymous User wrote:Anonymous User wrote:
Which is it? and what are the GPA cutoffs?
Any idea of a gpa range for top 2/3?
Probably somewhere around a 3.0.
Re: Penn Law Law Review GPA Cutoffs
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 5:28 pm
by wildcatatpenn
WhirledWorld wrote:Anonymous User wrote:Anonymous User wrote:
Which is it? and what are the GPA cutoffs?
Any idea of a gpa range for top 2/3?
Probably somewhere around a 3.0.
definitely higher than that bro. only 10% of the mandatory 1L curve was below 3.0. I would speculate more like 3.1x
Re: Penn Law Law Review GPA Cutoffs
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:14 pm
by 09042014
wildcatatpenn wrote:WhirledWorld wrote:Anonymous User wrote:Anonymous User wrote:
Which is it? and what are the GPA cutoffs?
Any idea of a gpa range for top 2/3?
Probably somewhere around a 3.0.
definitely higher than that bro. only 10% of the mandatory 1L curve was below 3.0. I would speculate more like 3.1x
If your median is B+ it's probably more like 3.20