Priority Track. It's a fee waiver and guarantee to respond with a decision 10 days after you submit. It's mostly given out unsolicited, but apparently you can sometimes also get it just by asking nicely (or by asking for a merit-based fee waiver).MtnGinger wrote:Dumb question but what's PT?
I **think** that's for people who have already been invited to apply via priority track (edit: as opposed to for people requesting priority track). see last year's threadblueberrycrumble wrote:They have a form on their website too: http://law.duke.edu/prioritytrack/
Is this a relatively new thing or do people just not use it? Better to just email and ask along with a fee waiver?
nothing for splitters im assuming?rebexness wrote:Its GPA/LSAT combo. I think @ or right below medians gets the invite.cuboxing25 wrote:is the invite based on GPA or what?
If your gpa is 3.6 and you have a 169+ I bet you would get one. That's not a bad gpa at all.cuboxing25 wrote:nothing for splitters im assuming?rebexness wrote:Its GPA/LSAT combo. I think @ or right below medians gets the invite.cuboxing25 wrote:is the invite based on GPA or what?
thats reassuring, thanks.Winston1984 wrote:If your gpa is 3.6 and you have a 169+ I bet you would get one. That's not a bad gpa at all.cuboxing25 wrote:nothing for splitters im assuming?rebexness wrote:Its GPA/LSAT combo. I think @ or right below medians gets the invite.cuboxing25 wrote:is the invite based on GPA or what?
God, I know right? Waiting til Feb/March would be brutal.xylocarp wrote:I'm going to be SO EXCITED if I get PT. Having a T-14 acceptance so early in the cycle would be awesome. Not getting my hopes up though
You'll definitely get one with your numbers, I think.xylocarp wrote:I'm going to be SO EXCITED if I get PT. Having a T-14 acceptance so early in the cycle would be awesome. Not getting my hopes up though
From what I've read it seems to be kind of random... people with all sorts of above-median #s get it while other don't, with no discernible rhyme or reasonblueberrycrumble wrote:You'll definitely get one with your numbers, I think.xylocarp wrote:I'm going to be SO EXCITED if I get PT. Having a T-14 acceptance so early in the cycle would be awesome. Not getting my hopes up though
Oh, yeah I see that from last year's thread now. That sucksxylocarp wrote:From what I've read it seems to be kind of random... people with all sorts of above-median #s get it while other don't, with no discernible rhyme or reasonblueberrycrumble wrote:You'll definitely get one with your numbers, I think.xylocarp wrote:I'm going to be SO EXCITED if I get PT. Having a T-14 acceptance so early in the cycle would be awesome. Not getting my hopes up though
It's the GPA used for law school admissions at pretty much all schools. It's calculated by LSAC after you submit your transcripts and can be very similar or quite a bit different from your school GPA.cuboxing25 wrote:can anyone explain what the lsdas GPA is? I know that may be an ignorant question but I see it now and then in different places.
This is probably revealing my neuroticism a bit too much, but that calculator is credited, and I know because I've sent in transcripts three different times (before I would ever need them) and the calculator has given me spot-on predictions every time.blueberrycrumble wrote:It's the GPA used for law school admissions at pretty much all schools. It's calculated by LSAC after you submit your transcripts and can be very similar or quite a bit different from your school GPA.cuboxing25 wrote:can anyone explain what the lsdas GPA is? I know that may be an ignorant question but I see it now and then in different places.
You can also try to use this calculator.
Probably due to differences in rounding, the calculator gave me a 0.01 higher GPA than LSAC haha.xylocarp wrote:This is probably revealing my neuroticism a bit too much, but that calculator is credited, and I know because I've sent in transcripts three different times (before I would ever need them) and the calculator has given me spot-on predictions every time.blueberrycrumble wrote:It's the GPA used for law school admissions at pretty much all schools. It's calculated by LSAC after you submit your transcripts and can be very similar or quite a bit different from your school GPA.cuboxing25 wrote:can anyone explain what the lsdas GPA is? I know that may be an ignorant question but I see it now and then in different places.
You can also try to use this calculator.
It can be different from your degree GPA if you have WF's, A+'s, classes you've retaken/replaced the grades, or just if your school uses slightly different GPA numbers (e.g. 3.7 vs. 3.66 for an A-). Schools will only care about your LSDAS GPA and won't care about your degree GPA.
Ooh I hope that happens to me when I send in my last summer transcripts. I'm 0.01 away from H's median haha.blueberrycrumble wrote:Probably due to differences in rounding, the calculator gave me a 0.01 higher GPA than LSAC haha.xylocarp wrote:This is probably revealing my neuroticism a bit too much, but that calculator is credited, and I know because I've sent in transcripts three different times (before I would ever need them) and the calculator has given me spot-on predictions every time.blueberrycrumble wrote:It's the GPA used for law school admissions at pretty much all schools. It's calculated by LSAC after you submit your transcripts and can be very similar or quite a bit different from your school GPA.cuboxing25 wrote:can anyone explain what the lsdas GPA is? I know that may be an ignorant question but I see it now and then in different places.
You can also try to use this calculator.
It can be different from your degree GPA if you have WF's, A+'s, classes you've retaken/replaced the grades, or just if your school uses slightly different GPA numbers (e.g. 3.7 vs. 3.66 for an A-). Schools will only care about your LSDAS GPA and won't care about your degree GPA.
