Re: Going to take the LSAT in October, just started prep yesterday...
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1) 95% on the LSAT will get you laughed at by T14 schools.
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Noah, you have done a lot of great work in these LSAT threads so please don't take this the wrong way. But I think this is flat-out wrong (and not because I was 95th percentile for the June 11 test and still hope to go top-14).
Anecdotally, I know of several people at places like NYU and Virginia who were in the 95th percentile.
And if you look at the US News numbers, there are plenty of top-14 schools where 95th percentile of LSAT scores is within the 25th percentile to 75th percentile range
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Even if you disregard racial discrimination, those admissions numbers are deceiving. Sure 50% of the people at XYZ top law school got below a certain score, but what percent of applicants with that score actually got in? Just because 50% of the students admitted to XYZ Law School got admitted with a mediocre score doesn't mean 50% of those with a mediocre score got admitted.
Some will get in with those scores...the rest will be laughed at.
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