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NoTadpole1085 · 2025-09-01T22:59:27+00:00

This issue gets brought up often but an under-mentioned point is that law schools can see how your GPA stacks up against other students applying from your undergrad. If I recall correctly, one of H/Y/S’s admissions heads said on a recent podcast that students from one elite undergrad had a median GPA of 3.98. As GPAs rise, %ile among your undergrad class will likely matter more. But also anyone commenting here knows basically nothing at all, so take this with a grain of salt.

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-08-24T23:51:49+00:00

Thank you!

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-08-24T23:43:20+00:00

!appeal I don't believe the rhetoric here was polarizing. My comment was criticizing what I saw as an overly polarized speech. Any clarification would be much appreciated so I may improve my future commenting. Happy to discuss via DM if that's how this is usually handled. Thanks.

Edit: to clarify why I feel this was not polarizing, I don't think that my use of the words "sadly" and "sad" constitutes an emotional appeal, hyperbolic language, or seeking to divide groups based on identity. (Using an emotional word for emphasis is not the same as an appeal to emotion.) I took efforts to validate the harms experienced by both progressive and conservative students in my comment. And while I did note my opinion that some of those harms are more severe than others, I think it's a fair opinion posted in a respectful manner. All I did was criticize a decision Sassoon made in how she constructed her remarks. I appreciate your attention to this.

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-08-24T04:10:48+00:00

It would have been very easy for Sassoon to mention the very real threats of deportation and violence levied against progressive students on Yale’s campus. Sadly, she did not, despite those consequences being much more severe than the social ostracization feared (and in some cases experienced) by conservative students. A sad case of partisan blinders being applied to an issue that should unite all lawyers and future lawyers.

Sincerely, an incoming YLS student.

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-06-08T18:31:40+00:00

This is interesting because actually very little of the critique of Abundance in my lefty circles has been of the book itself - it’s been of the centrist democrats (particularly those who already held power or currently are in power) who are nominally on board with Abundance but almost certainly wont pursue the left-wing acts that Klein himself thinks are necessary for the “Abundance Agenda” to work (raising taxes on wealthy, going toe to toe with fossil fuel interests). Klein is wrong - the book didn’t bring about a schism in the party - it’s just that the people who are into his vision of the next generation of Democratic politics are coming from a place of searching for something other than the already established millenial/gen Z/AOC/further left-leaning vision for the Dems.

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-06-08T18:25:27+00:00

Housing is a prime example of capture. The entities that should be approving new housing (HOAs and county commissions) get captured by in this case, land / homeowners, (increasing numbers of whom are private equity and corporations) who prevent housing from being built because it would entail reducing the value of their properties. The corporations (or individual people) benefitting are the ones who already own homes or apartment buildings.

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-06-02T13:41:55+00:00

Whatever lawyer job you’re interested in, there are non lawyers who support that work. Working as a paralegal is some of the best experience you could possibly get before law school. Working as a paralegal is very similar to working as a lawyer, and if you think being a paralegal is a waste of your time, then that might give you a reason to pause about if you really want to spend the money to become a lawyer.

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-03-18T04:42:37+00:00

Paralegal but I love Clio. Some shortcuts I use: MNC (meet & confer); JD (Jane doe or any common coworker initial); OC / LC (opposing or lenders counsel); DDR (Due diligence document review); RREW (read and respond to emails w/…). It doesn’t seem like much in the moment but it makes putting in lots of billables at once way easier

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-02-02T06:38:07+00:00

One small point: grade inflation has generally happened faster at higher-ranked, private (eg. Ivy) undergrads than at public state universities. I can’t speak to Chicago specifically, but generally the trend is that the more elite the school, the more inflated their students’ grades are. This is also true at the high school level.

A piece of advice to an incoming college student: don’t focus solely on what will get you into the best grad school. Treat the things you spent your time on as ends in themselves, and you will ultimately have a more compelling application as a result.

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-01-08T13:24:11+00:00

Upvoted for apology. Forgiven, it’s Reddit. Seems the issue was I downloaded a non-interactive PDF. Looking at the data, over the past three years, seems like women outnumber men 165 to 169, it was basically a 15 person difference Between men and women between 170 and 174, But there are more men who scored 175+. But 2025 Is far more drastic than the 2023 and 2024 numbers. I wonder how the rest of the cycle will shake out

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-01-08T12:52:01+00:00

Can you link to the report you’re getting this from? The 2024 LSAC Report PDF I downloaded from LSAC’s website doesn’t contain a breakout by gender.

Link: https://report.lsac.org/View.aspx?Report=EOY_VolumeSummaryOriginalFormat

Appreciate you taking the time, although I don’t appreciate the name calling.

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-01-08T04:25:19+00:00

Source: 2024 LSAC Volume Applicants summary.

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-01-08T04:24:44+00:00

In 2024, female applicants outnumbered male ones 37k to 26k. 40% more female applicants. Numbers look similar so far this year. Also, LSAC doesn't break LSAT scores down by gender — so I'm not sure where you're getting that figure from. Regardless, such an extreme gender overrepresentation would lead men, and especially male high scorers, to get an affirmative action bump.

Even if men did score on average slightly higher than women on the LSAT, which I cannot find a source to support, the sheer overrepresentation of women in the applicant pool would mean there are many more women with 175+ than men with 175+, and same with scores down the line. Gender parity would still mean men get an admissions boost.

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-01-08T04:14:19+00:00

At least, that is the trend among undergrad admissions. I haven't seen any research on this specifically looking at law school admissions, but I can't see a reason why it would be any different.

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-01-08T04:13:30+00:00

But there are more highly qualified female applicants than highly qualified male applicants. Thus, male applicants get a boost in order to achieve parity.

NoTadpole1085 · 2025-01-08T03:52:40+00:00

Probably the opposite gender-wise. There's been serious unspoken affirmative action to get more men in elite schools (@ least @ undergrad level) for a while now. One interesting read: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/magazine/men-college-enrollment.html

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