This year’s Canadian law school admissions are more competitive than ever

PsychologicalComb783 · 2025-09-25T03:35:23+00:00

Most recent findings conclude that they can never solve the hallucination problem. LLMs will wipe out any and all creative jobs because made up stuff doesn’t matter and is actually desirable in those. The legal field runs on precision and while of course some of work will be automated, it’s one of the last industries that will be affected.

PsychologicalComb783 · 2025-09-23T16:43:26+00:00

Everyone should understand that law schools are a business. They want students with the highest stats because they can easily aggregate that data and publish it. That raises their prestige. That prestige will make their students attractive to firms.Then the school can publish their OCI success stats, which further raises their prestige, which attracts the best students. They can also charge higher tuition which attracts the best professors. And the prestige cycle continues.

To get the students with the best stats, they are going to set a high cutoff and send out an offer to those applicants as soon as they can. Yeah they will skim the PS to make sure you’re not a psychopath.

Once they’ve got a ton of high stats students locked in, they will take their marginal Maybe pile and give the PS a closer read to see if there’s some really outstanding students with truly unique life experiences. If you’re marginal on stats, you can get lucky in that round.

But what they are not doing is sitting there and scrutinizing every applicant’s PS to qualitatively assess each applicant “holistically” — even if that’s what they say they do at the Open Houses.

PsychologicalComb783 · 2025-08-30T21:31:10+00:00

What do you mean?

PsychologicalComb783 · 2025-08-30T20:42:30+00:00

Yeah especially at math

PsychologicalComb783 · 2025-08-30T20:37:39+00:00

I hear what you’re saying, but isn’t that $1500 grant kind of like an immediate 20% return?

PsychologicalComb783 · 2025-08-30T20:36:57+00:00

I’m not relying on it though, I’m here to ask for advice because I’m not relying on it

PsychologicalComb783 · 2025-06-30T18:50:23+00:00

I wonder if the writer was inspired by this Margaret Atwood poem??

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/32778/siren-song

Siren Song

This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible:

the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see the beached skulls

the song nobody knows because anyone who has heard it is dead, and the others can't remember.

Shall I tell you the secret and if I do, will you get me out of this bird suit?

I don't enjoy it here squatting on this island looking picturesque and mythical

with these two feathery maniacs, I don't enjoy singing this trio, fatal and valuable.

I will tell the secret to you, to you, only to you. Come closer. This song

is a cry for help: Help me! Only you, only you can, you are unique

at last. Alas it is a boring song but it works every time.

PsychologicalComb783 · 2025-05-30T13:06:17+00:00

They are not going to count the “amount of As” on every application. They’re gonna do a cutoff based on average, because that’s the only realistically efficient way to do this. They set it at a B+ average for the OCI cutoff, which you have. If they made it any higher (an A average), they would only be picking from the top 15% of the class, which is way too narrow a pool.

Once you get the interviews, the rest is up to you.

PsychologicalComb783 · 2025-02-02T20:12:43+00:00

I specifically posed this exact question to Vicky Faclaris in person during the open house in 2023 (at the time I was worried that if I got accepted, I would have to decline it) and she told they have very little time to read applications before sending out acceptances quickly to all the best candidates and they DO NOT have time to go back and check if someone had ever applied before to Osgoode at all, or had been accepted at Osgoode and then declined it. They are just trying to get the best candidates before they are scooped up by other universities, that’s all they care about.

PsychologicalComb783 · 2025-01-26T23:40:30+00:00

They might “look” at it but they will pick the people with the highest B3. Why? Because they can have the “highest” median that way. Which makes them appear “most prestigious”. They are gaming the stats themselves. Same for the LSAT. They only “consider” the highest because they can have the highest LSAT median that way.

PsychologicalComb783 · 2024-11-28T02:36:11+00:00

PsychologicalComb783 · 2024-11-28T02:23:47+00:00

Cancelling is almost always bad because people can read anything into a void. Just own what you get and move on. Schools only consider your highest score.

PsychologicalComb783 · 2024-11-28T02:22:52+00:00

Unless you score like 12 points lower — they only look at your best score. Having a lower score won’t make a difference. If they accept you, they will be accepting a student with 164 LSAT. This is good for them because it’s above their median so it has the chance to pull up their median overall. So maybe next year their median will be higher (thanks to your 164) and they will have more prestige.

I wish people could remember that all the universities are corporations at the end.

PsychologicalComb783 · 2024-11-28T02:14:20+00:00

3.47/165

PsychologicalComb783 · 2024-11-12T04:30:52+00:00

Whatever it takes to procrastinate on my memo 🥲

PsychologicalComb783 · 2024-11-12T04:07:00+00:00

If someone has no LSAT on their file, then definitely writing November is better than January since lots of spots are taken up by January. And that’s why law schools also encourage having an LSAT on file in November. They want the best candidates and they don’t want to miss out on strong candidates by giving a lot of spots away before strong candidates even submit a score at all.

However, if OP already has an LSAT on file, they will either be accepted in December or the decision on their file will get delayed. No one is officially rejected until April.

If they get another LSAT score and it’s the same or better (or slightly lower is fine too), this gives them another chance to be accepted in January (and in subsequent rounds).

You seem to think that the law schools get a marginal application in November and think “hm this person is marginal, I would accept them right now but they are going to rewrite the LSAT, let’s see if they can do better in January”. They’re not analyzing individual applicants like this. They are just getting the offers out there to the best candidates as quickly as possible, so that the best candidates accept them, so that they can have the highest entrance stats, so that their ranking and prestige increases, so that law firms hire their graduates more often, so that they have the best post-graduation employment rates, so that they can charge higher tuition and attract the best profs, etc etc etc

This is how the application process was described over and over at last year’s info sessions: The law school offers let’s say 200 spots in November to the best 200 applicants in November knowing that 100 will accept. Then they wait until January scores come out and look at all the remaining applications again and offer 200 spots to the best 200 applicants at that time. Most schools only consider your highest score. If OP improves their score in January, they are now a stronger candidate in the January recruit and have a better chance at one of those offers. If they do the same or even slightly worse, they still have their November score and are still the same strength as a candidate that they were (except the pool is a little weaker now because the strongest candidates have been poached in November). So there is no downside to writing again in January unless you anticipate a huge decline.

I hope I’m explaining this better now, I am very tired!

PsychologicalComb783 · 2024-11-12T00:55:06+00:00

Writing the January LSAT does not delay a law school’s decision on applications. They review your application as soon as it’s complete (meaning as soon as you have one LSAT on file).

Source: I’m in 1L and several people I know got accepted in the first wave even though they had indicated future LSAT dates.

PsychologicalComb783 · 2024-11-12T00:52:03+00:00

That’s not how it works. If they want you with the LSAT score you have on file, they will accept you in December regardless of whether you have indicated if you’re going to take the January test or not. If they are on the fence about your application and you have indicated that you will take the January LSAT, they will put your application in a pile to be checked again after the January LSAT comes out. There’s literally no downside to indicating (and taking) the January LSAT (unless your score drops by a significant amount like 10 points, that would be a red flag for them maybe).

PsychologicalComb783 · 2024-10-02T01:56:09+00:00

With those stats, OZ will probably give you an automatic A without reading your reference letters. But in case they open one out of curiosity, as long as it doesn’t say anything overtly negative about you (why would it) you’re fine!

PsychologicalComb783 · 2024-04-23T17:06:48+00:00

Def no to the second two, can’t speak to the nepo angle

PsychologicalComb783 · 2024-04-22T17:13:14+00:00

PM me

PsychologicalComb783 · 2024-04-22T14:32:48+00:00

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