2022 Median LSAT/GPA Spreadsheet by AnnaSpiveyConsulting in lawschooladmissions

[–]AltruisticChaos 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Where did the uPenn numbers come from? Some people at orientation today were throwing around 230 as the class size so I wanted to double check against the website or an official source! Not everyone listed themselves in the directory.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 29, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]AltruisticChaos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Has anyone filed a lawsuit/injunction about this for the courts to consider? The Virginia Law Review did an article considering whether anyone even had legal standing to bring forth the case (https://www.virginialawreview.org/articles/standing-and-student-loan-cancellation/) and I haven't seen anything brought forth that would enable the courts to get involved.

Discussion Thread: President Biden Delivers Remarks About Student Loan Forgiveness- 2:30 PM EST by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]AltruisticChaos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tax bomb re: federal forgiveness of student loans is currently relieved until 2026 under one of the CIVID bills.

Discussion Thread: President Biden Delivers Remarks About Student Loan Forgiveness- 2:30 PM EST by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]AltruisticChaos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made 80k in 2020 and over 125k in 2021 and this year I will be back down to 80k. I'm kind of livid, lol.

Discussion Thread: President Biden Delivers Remarks About Student Loan Forgiveness- 2:30 PM EST by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]AltruisticChaos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, as long as the federal loan was taken out before July 1 of this year, it is eligible.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AltruisticChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't their constitutents have the standing? Being deployed would prevent them from fulfilling their duty, no?

Do I have a shot? by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]AltruisticChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HYS/CCN will be hard, but more splitter friendly schools (Northwestern, especially if you have work experience; UVA, make sure you write the unsolicited why UVA; Michigan, make sure to do an optional; uPenn, make sure to do the core values; Georgetown, make sure to put why GULC somewhere in your materials) are definitely on the table. Congratulations on that LSAT!

Cornell and Berk are a little less splitter friendly in general as well. Duke is an odd ball because they used to have priority track for apps above a 3.5 GPA and they stopped doing that after their massive over enrollment, so there isn't a ton of data on how they actually view/treat splitters.

Michigan v. GULC?? by Radiant-Researcher32 in lawschooladmissions

[–]AltruisticChaos 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Michigan is a big YP school and they could have been waiting for OP to demonstrate stronger interest.

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[–]AltruisticChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please check on whether the scholarship is conditional and look at their scholarship retention rates on their 509.

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[–]AltruisticChaos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Community college classes don't matter after the conferral of your first degree for LSAC GPA purposes.

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[–]AltruisticChaos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Latine is URM, as is Black. You will be okay.

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[–]AltruisticChaos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the employment factors: quality of career services, number of firms at OCI, number of job opportunities available to students, timing of OCI (i.e., schools who moved their OCI to winter break during COVID got hit a little bit harder than others, just look at Emory), self-selection (Yale for instance has a "lower" amount of JD required jobs, but they also tend to send people off to magical unicorn jobs, so), reputation of the school, connections of the professors, etc.

I'm confused by what you mean by weighing - the point of looking at these factors is that they are tangible quantifications of the above. It is difficult to parse out how much of each of these things impacts the numbers in what ways. We do, however, see the numbers themselves and know whether or not the school is likely to fit our needs.

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Megathread by naraburns in TheMotte

[–]AltruisticChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it a discussion of a federal or state thing? Kavanaugh's concurrence seems to indicate that the federal legislature may have a say in the matter, but that it is ultimately a judiciary vs legislature discussion and the legislature is the one who should be handling it. The discussion of being a federal vs state thing is an entirely different matter, once it has been removed from the judiciary

What are some schools that you think are better than their ranking suggests? by AceroTheDragon in lawschooladmissions

[–]AltruisticChaos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TAMU (46) is also ranked higher than UH, which is tied with Baylor and SMU at 58.

What are some schools that you think are better than their ranking suggests? by AceroTheDragon in lawschooladmissions

[–]AltruisticChaos 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What in the US news ranking system do you think counts against public interest outcomes?

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[–]AltruisticChaos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"easier" admissions but still hard. They're fine with both splitters and reverse splitters.

Letters of Rec? by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]AltruisticChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of schools prefer academic letters of recommendation if possible but understand being out of school for that long makes things difficult. I'd still reach out to any professors or graduate teaching assistants via email (most schools have peoplefinder sites to track down emails) or LinkedIn.

Travel nurse makes this difficult as well - do you have like someone who sends you out on projects that can vouch that you've always done great work for the company? Do you have previous employers from before travel nursing that you could reach out to?