Not fair? Perhaps. But consider Georgetown Law School.
Georgetown's Numbers
In 2008, it received 11,000 applications for a class of about 400 students. How else is a small admissions committee to wade through all the chaos?
They could turn to everyone's GPA, but that, too, poses serious challenges. The main challenge is the lack of consistency. These GPAs come from schools all across the country (and, for that matter, the world) and represent every type of degree imaginable. Try to compare a physics-program 3.67 from NYU with an American-studies 3.92 from Stanford.
Not sure? Okay, just read all 11,000 personal statements.
But even personal statements are misleading. They favor those who know how to sell themselves. Granted, that's a talent that might suit a future lawyer well. But we're still looking at over 11,000 monologues of why so-and-so is the best applicant ever. There's simply not enough time.
Level Playing Field
This brings us back to the LSAT—the strictly monitored, standardized test. It's the easiest way to size people up in a heartbeat. So simple, in fact, a computer can do it.
It may not be fair, but it's the reality.
The Secret
Now for the least-understood secret:
The LSAT is no IQ test. The longer you study for it, the better you'll do. If you want to score high, just study more and beat the system.That's why we created the 100-Hour Course. It's long, but it works.
Now imagine Harvard, Yale, Stanford . . .
