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ban the LSAT |
| Message Name: |
Please Stop Whining |
| Date Posted: |
01/09/2002 |
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I am a 1L2B at HLS (I was accepted last year and opted for a 1yr deferral). Like all of you, I was all over this and the PR board while waiting for my acceptances, and once again people are complaining about the LSAT. Did you ever notice that the people who really complain about it the most are the ones who didn't do so well?
I had a great UGPA in a respectably hard major and I did great on the LSAT. Let me tell you right now that it is a LEARNABLE test. The first time I took it for practice, I went in blind and I did badly. So I put in some Hard Work! So if you didn't do well and don't get into the school of your dreams its becuase either 1) you were too lax in your preperations for the LSAT or 2)you did work hard, but didn't have the intellectual capacity to master the material or 3) both. Yes, the LSAT stinks, I hated the test, but don't blame it for your shortcomings. It takes quite a combination to score in the 99th Percentile that's why only 1% of the population can score there!
In short, yes the LSAT was a major pain in the butt, but if you didn't do well you have no one or nothing but yourself to blame.
Sometimes UGPA is a good predictor of sucess, sometimes it can be very inflated. Just becuase someone has a 3.9 and is involved in campus activities, it doesn't mean that they are going to be the best law student or lawyer. The LSAT is the one great equalizer that we all had to take and that we can all uniformly and objectively be measured against. Besides if we only used UGPA, do you want someone deciding that your major is less viable than another and thus that your 3.9 in major X is less preferable to anyone with say a 3.3 or higher in major Y. I'd say you feel that you worked pretty hard for that 3.9 and you would call that an injustice too. The LAw Schools must have some way of ranking prospective students. I would prefer an objective way like the LSAT, not someone deciding the strength of my major vs. another.
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