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...Dena O. Rakoff, the pre-law advising coordinator at the Office of Career Services (OCS), said yesterday that the number of students scoring a perfect "48" on their October LSATs tripled from last year to this year. She said she could not predict how the scores would affect admissions chances until she knew how Harvard students' performances compared with others nationwide...
...know how to look at it [the high scores] in terms of Harvard's competition with other people from other schools...we need to know how it affects the chances for our pool in general," Rakoff said...
...Rakoff said she has already contacted LSAS to make sure there were no problems with the test scoring, and to see how Harvard's scores compared to others. McKinley said LSAS did score the tests correctly, but that "we haven't looked at the distribution of scores for individual institutions...
...Harvard seniors applying to law schools, the surge in applications led to stiffer competition for the available slots, says Dina Rakoff, pre-law adviser for Harvard's Office of Career Services...
...There have been some surprises," Rakoff says. "People have been put on hold or turned down, people whom we would have expected to get accepted...