Sample Applicant Profile --
Numerical Style
An applicant profile is the best information a school can give you. The school represented below had 38 applicants with a GPA above 3.75 and an LSAT score between 160 and 164; it accepted 35 of them. If you're in that numerical range, you're almost certainly a presumptive admit.
Why only "almost" certainly? Well, three people were rejected, and we don't know why. They might have had fluffy majors, or lightweight recommendations. More importantly,they might have had LSAT scores of 160 when this school is really looking for a 161 or better!
The easiest way to tell whether the "disqualifier" those three people exhibited was their LSAT score is to look at the box below, with lower LSAT scores. Since 75 out of 97 were accepted in that range, I would say that LSAT is not in itself a disqualifier; there must have been some other weakness in the file. Could the difference merely reflect selection to a part-time program rather than full-time? I think not; while it's theoretically possible, 75 out of 97 is too high a ratio for part time programs, which typically have many fewer applicants. See the ABA data over here for further discussion. |
Do I really expect you to think that hard about what a number means? Sadly, no; I wish you would, and I know that a good lawyer would but I know that most of you won't. Oh well, your loss -- of time, money, and emotions.
This numerical profile shows the GPA and LSAT range of all applicants, and shows you how many were admitted with various GPA and LSAT combinations.
Not every school has a profile; the Law School Description portion of the book is voluntary (unlike the ABA portion, which is mandated by you-know-who.) A school might choose to display a Bar Graph or Descriptive profile instead.