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29 Nov 2011, 09:47
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Since it looks like MBA2be hasn't been active since ~2010, I'd be happy to answer any questions regarding the LSAT or the law school admissions process.
A little about myself if you're interested... I thought that while I'm lurking on this site in an attempt to decide whether or not I'm capable of tackling the GMAT, I'd make myself useful since the LSAT/law school admissions have been my life for the last 6 months. I did well on the LSAT and have one top 10 law school acceptance so far in this cycle. I do not have a steller undergraduate GPA and have held a couple full time jobs in the finance industry and legal industry.
ETA: Law School admissions is about 90% a numbers game, with the exception of a couple of schools. In the "T14" (the law schools that carry more national/international prestige--designated "T14" because the same schools, with only minor exceptions, have been in the top 14 since US News and World Report began ranking law schools in 1987) Yale, Stanford, Berkeley and to a lesser extent UMich have been more "holistic" and unpredictable. Whereas Harvard, NYU, Duke and pretty much the rest of the T14 law schools are very numbers driven. Other schools (UVA) take advantage of their Early Decision pool to fill a good portion of their class so applicants who want to lock a T14 school with borderline numbers will often ED to UVA.
A good resource to check out is lawschoolnumbers (google it; I can't quite post links yet since I'm still a greenhorn on these boards). It's a website where applicants from each cycle voluntarily state their numbers and results (the caveat being since it is self reported, there is the possibility of people being dishonest/rounding). There are a couple more resources I can list but at the risk of spamming these boards, I'll wait until there is some interest in additional resources before I post them.
A little about myself if you're interested... I thought that while I'm lurking on this site in an attempt to decide whether or not I'm capable of tackling the GMAT, I'd make myself useful since the LSAT/law school admissions have been my life for the last 6 months. I did well on the LSAT and have one top 10 law school acceptance so far in this cycle. I do not have a steller undergraduate GPA and have held a couple full time jobs in the finance industry and legal industry.
ETA: Law School admissions is about 90% a numbers game, with the exception of a couple of schools. In the "T14" (the law schools that carry more national/international prestige--designated "T14" because the same schools, with only minor exceptions, have been in the top 14 since US News and World Report began ranking law schools in 1987) Yale, Stanford, Berkeley and to a lesser extent UMich have been more "holistic" and unpredictable. Whereas Harvard, NYU, Duke and pretty much the rest of the T14 law schools are very numbers driven. Other schools (UVA) take advantage of their Early Decision pool to fill a good portion of their class so applicants who want to lock a T14 school with borderline numbers will often ED to UVA.
A good resource to check out is lawschoolnumbers (google it; I can't quite post links yet since I'm still a greenhorn on these boards). It's a website where applicants from each cycle voluntarily state their numbers and results (the caveat being since it is self reported, there is the possibility of people being dishonest/rounding). There are a couple more resources I can list but at the risk of spamming these boards, I'll wait until there is some interest in additional resources before I post them.
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Congrats, JD/MBA is surely a winning combination, i also am very interested in pursuing JD/MBA, please share some more of your story and also GPA etc. Also what do you think about Feb LSAT, do people who use feb LSAT for same fall admission are at a disadvantage? Thanks and warm regards
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Ahh, my screenname is a bit of a misnomer--apologies. I'm currently considering a JD/MBA.
I posted my long story in the peer review board (profile-eval-should-i-take-the-gmat-123969.html) but I've basically come to the conclusion that I should get some more work experience before I apply for a MBA. However, I am going to take the GMAT now since the score is valid for 5 years and I'm still in "test mode" after completing the LSAT. I have a 3.5 undergraduate GPA and about 1 year of full time work experience.
The February LSAT puts you at a HUGE disadvantage when attempting to apply for the same cycle. The fact is that many top schools have admissions deadlines before you would get your scores back. LSAT scores come back during the middle of March for February exams. Unfortunately, it isn't like the GMAT where you see a raw score immediately.
The law school admissions process is a rolling one which means that most law schools fill up more than half their seats, conservatively, before the February test is even administered. Therefore, in my opinion, you would be at an extreme disadvantage. www.lawschoolnumbers.com shows anecdotal evidence that people who apply after December who would have been admitted to top schools end up being rejected or waitlisted simply because they applied late. This is true of most top schools but there are exceptions to the rule; Yale is the only elite school I can recall that does not do rolling admissions and USC does rolling but doesn't make decisions until ~February so taking the LSAT then wouldn't be so bad. If you absolutely have to take February, prepare to under-perform your numbers. I would highly suggest waiting until next cycle to get a head start and to make sure your essays/letters of rec/resume/etc are flawless.
Another interesting bit about the February LSAT is that it is a "non-disclosed test" which means that, unlike June/October/December tests, test takers are not allowed to see which answers they've gotten right/wrong. There is no breakdown of your score. Therefore, if make stray marks on accident/aren't sure if you erased an incorrect answer fully, there is no way of knowing if the scantron machine misgraded your test for you to request manually scoring by a LSAC grader (LSAC is the company that administers the LSAT). The Feb test is like this because LSAC will use questions from the February test for make-up purposes such as Sabbath Observers since the LSAT is often administered on Saturdays or for some other extenuating circumstances people are allowed to make up their tests (think Earthquake during the middle of the exam type events).
I hope that was helpful! Feel free to post any other questions.
The LSAT is definitely a learnable test. 
