Word: lsats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year, from a pool of about 3100 applicants, NE will accept from 300 to 350 students to fill the 125 spots in its incoming class. The admissions committee, composed of three students, three faculty members and the director of admissions, uses the traditional criteria of grade-point average and LSAT scores, with one exception: any person without an acceptable academic background is considered if there are what one member of the admissions committee terms "mitigating factors--anything you find in their record that is interesting." Student and faculty differ occasionally over individual applications, but all agree on the importance...
...totally ridiculous to think that black students here are restricting black admissions, but it is not ridiculous for us to think that we can have a significant influence in reversing and improving present trends. Although we may be here with 4.0 GPA's, and 800 SAT's, GRE's LSAT's and MCAT's, we must never forget that these achievements are not responsible for black presence at Harvard. We are here because people before us fought the racist system that excluded black students from Harvard and most other institutions for hundreds of years. "Qualified" black students were around long...
Since ETS is the administrator of the nationally recognized LSAT's, many law schools use its formula, notably the University of Washington, whose policy is now being challenged before the Supreme Court...
...applicants from Harvard College, this formula is: reject--3.25 grade-point average (GPA) combined with 650 LSAT or lower; accept--3.5 GPA with 700 LSAT or higher. To translate these averages to a mixed GPA-LSAT, multiply the GPA by 200 and add it to the LSAT. A combination of 1300 is the maximum for an automatic reject, and a 1400 combination is the minimum instant accept...
...such questions? Morgan took a quick pot shot at the fact that the Law School offers no course in ethics: "Now most law schools have ethics courses. I presume that if you come to Harvard, that means you already have ethics. That's right. You proved it on the LSAT...