Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters? Forum

[Broncos15]

Curious as to the takes on here

[barkschool]

I don't remember any LSAT questions on my contracts exam

[Traynor Brah]

This isn't a thing.

[KMart]

The one that works harder.

[seashell.economy]

Has to be the reverse-splitter!

[Minnietron]

For what it is worth.

http://www.lsac.org/jd/lsat/your-score/ ... erformance

[Hikikomorist]

For what it is worth.

http://www.lsac.org/jd/lsat/your-score/ ... erformance

Do you happen to know where to find a school-specific correlation breakdown?

[usernotfound]

The one that works harder.

[Minnietron]

For what it is worth.

http://www.lsac.org/jd/lsat/your-score/ ... erformance

Do you happen to know where to find a school-specific correlation breakdown?

No sir. Maybe digging around here will produce the data. Perfect way to procrastinate while potentially validating your procrastination - dependent upon your group and the subsequent findings!
http://www.lsac.org/lsacresources/research/all/tr

[landshoes]

nevermind

I think that splitters' success depends on a lot of things. They probably do pretty well if they had an actual reason for the low GPA (e.g. they were chemical engineering majors at princeton or had some horrible illness during undergrad or something). Or if they've substantially changed their personal/work habits since undergrad.

But a K-JD english major who got a 3.2 because class was kinda boring? Going to do way, way worse than a reverse splitter.

[Tycho]

which one is which again?

Splitter = high LSAT, low GPA
Reverse splitter = low LSAT, high GPA

[Tiago Splitter]

a K-JD english major who got a 3.2 because class was kinda boring? Going to do way, way worse than a reverse splitter.

And you say this based on what?

FWIW LSAT predicts grades better than uGPA.

[ihenry]

He may find English major classes boring but law classes interesting.

[landshoes]

a K-JD english major who got a 3.2 because class was kinda boring? Going to do way, way worse than a reverse splitter.

And you say this based on what?

FWIW LSAT predicts grades better than uGPA.

based on rampant speculation just like in everyone else's posts, and based on my theory that law school is often boring as fuck and being in the habit of not working when you get bored is probably going to make law school harder

LSAT doesn't predict grades that much better than GPA and neither number by itself is really predictive enough to matter.

[landshoes]

He may find English major classes boring but law classes interesting.

lolololol k

[ymmv]

Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?

Whichever one didn't create this thread, probably.

[zhenders]

I've always thought this was a really informative talk on the importance of the LSAT with respect to grades; this video discusses the correlation between LSAT percentile and first-year performance; turns out it's not just hearsay, but rather legit LSAC data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7_xHsce57c

[kartelite]

He may find English major classes boring but law classes interesting.

lolololol k

I'm guessing that's the case for a lot of people...personally I don't generally find law as interesting as math or foreign language courses but much more so than something like English Lit.

And why do you find that amusing? Despite your snarky tone, some people actually find legal concepts interesting; you probably shouldn't be here if you don't.

[Troianii]

Well I'm 0L, but the figures pretty clearly indicate its splitters, as a few have pointed out so far with links.

[A. Nony Mouse]

He may find English major classes boring but law classes interesting.

lolololol k

I'm guessing that's the case for a lot of people...personally I don't generally find law as interesting as math or foreign language courses but much more so than something like English Lit.

And why do you find that amusing? Despite your snarky tone, some people actually find legal concepts interesting; you probably shouldn't be here if you don't.

I think the point is if your interest in something determines how well you do in it, you're likely to struggle at some point in law school/life.

[kartelite]

He may find English major classes boring but law classes interesting.

lolololol k

I'm guessing that's the case for a lot of people...personally I don't generally find law as interesting as math or foreign language courses but much more so than something like English Lit.

And why do you find that amusing? Despite your snarky tone, some people actually find legal concepts interesting; you probably shouldn't be here if you don't.

I think the point is if your interest in something determines how well you do in it, you're likely to struggle at some point in law school/life.

I think that's way too magnanimous to extrapolate from someone whose best way of expressing themselves is limited to "lolololol k."

[landshoes]

He may find English major classes boring but law classes interesting.

lolololol k

I'm guessing that's the case for a lot of people...personally I don't generally find law as interesting as math or foreign language courses but much more so than something like English Lit.

And why do you find that amusing? Despite your snarky tone, some people actually find legal concepts interesting; you probably shouldn't be here if you don't.

here being...law school? TLS?

fine, here you go: one, you generally have to do boring things to succeed in law school, regardless of how interesting you find "the law" (whatever that means); two, if you picked a major that doesn't interest you, you have a bad track record of determining in advance what you will find interesting; and three, there's no way to tell if you'll find 1L interesting or not beforehand.

Your passion for getting pissy and weird over a pointless discussion with people who don't really understand statistics bodes well for you fitting in at law school, though!

[landshoes]

It's always funny to me how personally people take these discussions. Your grades will be your grades, no matter what either one of us thinks. Relax.

[jbagelboy]

There's no such thing as a reverse splitter. That's just a person who needs to retake.

I thought we banned that perverse expression on TLS several cycles ago.

[star fox]

There's no such thing as a reverse splitter. That's just a person who needs to retake.

I thought we banned that perverse expression on TLS several cycles ago.

Wrong. Plenty of people matriculate to law school as such.