UCLA Masin Scholar cutoff Forum

[legsfrog8]

Top 12 students after 1L recieve Masin Scholarship. Does anyone know what the cutoff for this historically is? I am assuming this is top 12 after transfers.

[raekaya]

Total guess, but I can't imagine it would be lower than around a 3.9 or higher just judging from the amount of people whose gpas I happen to know are floating around there. I would not be surprised if at least every section has their token 4.0-or-abover if not a couple of them. Also, my friend with around a 4.0 did not make law review even though law review allows for grade on slots (though I don't know the exact number). So clearly there were enough people with above 4.0s to fill those grade on spots.
Also you think this includes transfers? I don't see why it would. That doesn't seem fair considering you probably need around a 4.0 to transfer in to UCLA from a lower ranked school and it's arguable easier to get that somewhere else so why should UCLA students be competing with that? There is a reason you forfeit your gpa when you transfer.

[jd20132013]

i think he means transfers out

[adam91]

Masin Scholars were released a few weeks ago. Transfers are not included, and it doesn't seem to get readjusted after those (if any) in the top 12 transferred out. Based on my understanding, top 12 cut-off would be a 3.90.

[adam91]

Also, law review allegedly takes into account grades in borderline cases but I hear in practice UCLA's Law Review is 100% write-on.

[GunnerBingo]

Total guess, but I can't imagine it would be lower than around a 3.9 or higher just judging from the amount of people whose gpas I happen to know are floating around there. I would not be surprised if at least every section has their token 4.0-or-abover if not a couple of them. Also, my friend with around a 4.0 did not make law review even though law review allows for grade on slots (though I don't know the exact number). So clearly there were enough people with above 4.0s to fill those grade on spots.
Also you think this includes transfers? I don't see why it would. That doesn't seem fair considering you probably need around a 4.0 to transfer in to UCLA from a lower ranked school and it's arguable easier to get that somewhere else so why should UCLA students be competing with that? There is a reason you forfeit your gpa when you transfer.

lol

[raekaya]

Total guess, but I can't imagine it would be lower than around a 3.9 or higher just judging from the amount of people whose gpas I happen to know are floating around there. I would not be surprised if at least every section has their token 4.0-or-abover if not a couple of them. Also, my friend with around a 4.0 did not make law review even though law review allows for grade on slots (though I don't know the exact number). So clearly there were enough people with above 4.0s to fill those grade on spots.
Also you think this includes transfers? I don't see why it would. That doesn't seem fair considering you probably need around a 4.0 to transfer in to UCLA from a lower ranked school and it's arguable easier to get that somewhere else so why should UCLA students be competing with that? There is a reason you forfeit your gpa when you transfer.

lol

Yeah, no idea why I wrote that; it's definitely not true. That doesn't affect my overall argument though, since there will still be transfers with 4.0s regardless of what the majority of transfers have.