Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 1:35 pm
Curious as to the takes on here
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Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 1:38 pm
I don't remember any LSAT questions on my contracts exam
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:46 pm
This isn't a thing.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 3:02 pm
The one that works harder.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 3:31 pm
Has to be the reverse-splitter!
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 3:39 pm
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:35 pm
Do you happen to know where to find a school-specific correlation breakdown?
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:33 pm
KMart wrote:The one that works harder.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:37 pm
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!Hikkomorist wrote:Do you happen to know where to find a school-specific correlation breakdown?
http://www.lsac.org/lsacresources/research/all/tr
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:15 pm
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.
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.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:18 pm
Splitter = high LSAT, low GPAlandshoes wrote:which one is which again?
Reverse splitter = low LSAT, high GPA
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:33 pm
And you say this based on what?landshoes wrote: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.
FWIW LSAT predicts grades better than uGPA.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:34 pm
He may find English major classes boring but law classes interesting.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 1:27 am
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 harderTiago Splitter wrote:And you say this based on what?landshoes wrote: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.
FWIW LSAT predicts grades better than uGPA.
LSAT doesn't predict grades that much better than GPA and neither number by itself is really predictive enough to matter.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 1:28 am
lolololol kihenry wrote:He may find English major classes boring but law classes interesting.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 1:38 am
Whichever one didn't create this thread, probably.OP wrote:Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 2:43 am
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7_xHsce57c
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 7:04 am
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.landshoes wrote:lolololol kihenry wrote:He may find English major classes boring but law classes interesting.
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.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 8:10 am
Well I'm 0L, but the figures pretty clearly indicate its splitters, as a few have pointed out so far with links.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 9:54 am
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 wrote: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.landshoes wrote:lolololol kihenry wrote:He may find English major classes boring but law classes interesting.
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.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:09 am
I think that's way too magnanimous to extrapolate from someone whose best way of expressing themselves is limited to "lolololol k."A. Nony Mouse wrote: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 wrote: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.landshoes wrote:lolololol kihenry wrote:He may find English major classes boring but law classes interesting.
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.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 1:29 pm
here being...law school? TLS?kartelite wrote: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.landshoes wrote:lolololol kihenry wrote:He may find English major classes boring but law classes interesting.
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.
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!
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 1:36 pm
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.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 2:31 am
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.
I thought we banned that perverse expression on TLS several cycles ago.
Re: Who performs better in law school, splitters or reverse splitters?
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 2:37 am
Wrong. Plenty of people matriculate to law school as such.jbagelboy wrote: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.