Recent graduate with 166/3.82 Forum

[DCarlen]

I was wondering what you all thought of my odds:

I recently took the LSAT, scoring a 166. I have a 3.82 GPA from William and Mary.

EC wise, I worked for a college newspaper as a section editor for 1.5 years before developing my own news site.

I wrote an honors thesis on the basis of an economics experiment I ran senior year. The contents were published and stored by our college archives. I gave a lecture on said thesis at the Institute for Advanced Applied Derivatives , where I am a Fellow.

I gave a lecture on Hue Magnitudes and Philosophy of Color at a conference hosted by my school.

I am currently working as an Economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (DoL). I gather data on economic factors affecting production data, prepare narrative and graphic reports of findings, recommendations, and conclusions, and prepare special analyses to meet the needs of data users and explain significance and limitations of the data.

At the same time, I am managing partner of Crim Dell Capital, where we research time series modeling of implied volatility, simulating and forecasting mean reversion and dynamic hedging. We are also researching the benefits of genetic algorithms and Tabu Search for delta hedged and vega hedged portfolios.

I am applying at:

Harvard
Stanford
Chicago
UVA
Columbia

[BigZuck]

Check out http://www.mylsn.info

Likely out at all of the above, unless maybe you sneak into UVA because of some sort of instate bump

Your softs won't help you overcome your lsat score (which I assume is what you're asking)

Definitely retake if you want to get into those schools

[DCarlen]

Are you sure that's not a risk? How much higher should my score be so that the average of the two would be acceptable?

[BigZuck]

Schools don't average. And even if they did, wouldn't matter because your score locks you out as is. Even if you got a 167 that would be significantly better than a 166. But aim for 180 IMO.

I went from low 160s to high 160s. Average was like a 164 or 165. Got 90K at Duke/Cornell, 60K at UVA/Michigan, etc. They only considered the high score, it's as if the other lower scores didn't exist.

[baal hadad]

Great info ab your chances here