Word: lsats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question on this year's application form reads, "List dates and descriptions of any LSAT preparation classes taken or to be taken," said Molly T. Geraghty '64, director of admissions and assistant dean of Harvard Law School...
...Committee on College Life approves a record number of new undergraduate organizations. Among the newly recognized groups: Harvard Students for Patriotism, Friends of The Salient, and Harvard Pre-Laws Helping Pre-Laws, an LSAT support group...
...applicants are required to take the Law School Aptitude Test (LSAT), which measures reasoning abilities. While critics charge the test can be culturally biased, the admissions office stands by its value as a common predictor of law school performance...
...point scale on the revised LSAT ranges from 10 to 48, but Harvard will not disclose the mean score for the student body. "We don't want to scare people off." Geraghty explains, saying only that it's "very high." The average score for the entire applicant pool is 39, in the ninety-sixth percentile...
...School Admissions Council, the organization that administers the LSAT, also prepares students' academic transcripts for evaluation by the admissions office, converting grade point averages to a standard four point scale. Straight A's from Harvard undergraduates are virtually unheard of, Geraghty notes. The average undergraduate GPA at the Law School is 3.5, but courses receive almost as much scrutiny as grades in the admissions process. Geraghty studies the transcripts to weed out the gut-seekers from the achievers, and she says she's familiar with the course offerings at 20 to 30 schools...