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ban the LSAT |
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The real issue is correlation |
| Date Posted: |
01/04/2002 |
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Before I write...just to let you know that this is all friendly discussion, so no bad feelings between anyone. We can agree to disagree...
But getting back to your last posting...I see your point about control...but disagree with your correlation with the LSAT to the SAT/ACT/SAT II tests...In fact, there are schools, top 20 schools, that do NOT require those tests for the purposes of proving the point that SAT (or standardized tests in general) are not reliable predictors of college performance...so let us just say that a person goes to one of these "small ivy" schools and was admitted without sending in his/her test scores, and that those test scores that were not sent in where horrible...let's say below 1000 on the SAT. This person continues to excel, however, throughout college and graduates top of his/her class and wants to go to law school, takes the LSAT and gets a 145. What then? This person will no doubt be denied a spot at a top 5 school based soley on the test score. Does this not refute your earlier argument that to get into that top undergrad, they would have had to do well on the SAT? |
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I tend to think LSAT is overstressed. The question, though, is whether high GPA high LSAT scorers do better than high GPA low LSAT scorers in law school. If so, that's an argument for LSAT. If not, against. I haven't looked at this in depth in a while....seems like last time I did, the studies were inconclusive, but did support some correlation between LSAT and law school performance.
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