Epic proof fail.genev26 wrote:Disagree. UVA undergrad puts out stats indicating medians for its own students at various law schools. Median for UVA undergrad to UVA law was 167, 3.64 in 2008. They haven't put a more recent one out yet though. Obviously this isn't going to make you feel better if you didn't go to UVA for undergrad, but the medians there are different.vanwinkle wrote:+1, completely spot-on.im_blue wrote:UVA takes many 3.85+/169- applicants, especially ED. UVA never takes 3.84-/169- applicants.multimh wrote:Um I have a quick question. I started a thread asking if I should ED and my stats are 3.95/ 163, and people said I have about a 50/50 shot, how can this guy not have a better shot than me?
Your problem is a failure to understand medians, or at least how they don't disprove this at all. If a 170/3.38 and a 164/3.90 both get accepted to UVA, that's a 167/3.64 average, but neither person has both a GPA and an LSAT below median.
UVA could reject every person who had an LSAT below 170 or a GPA below 3.85 and still achieve a median that low, if they're admitting a bunch of epic splitters. Plus, UVA grads are VA residents, which are the only people UVA would likely even consider making an exception for, and OP is non-resident, so that wouldn't help increase his chances above 0% even if it did mean what you thought it does.
