<p>I know that law schools take into account what undergraduate school you went to when they calculate the lsdas gpa, but I don't yet know how it is broken up; whether it is different for every school, or if they have tiers, etc. Does anyone know where I can find a site showing this information?</p>
<p>Hello? This is urgent.</p>
<p>Don't understand your question. What site are you looking for?</p>
<p>I don't think this is true, especially considering the use of indexes (a baseline number of academic aptitude based on a school's unique formula of LSAC GPA/LSAT) at many universities.</p>
<p>A long, long time ago, back in the pre-historic age, when LSATs were scaled from 120 to 180, there was no LSDAS. You applied directly to each law school. Then, in the early 1970s, LSDAS was born. During the first few years though, it did NOT calculate a standard gpa for everyone. </p>
<p>During this pre-historic age, many law schools had systems whereby they multiplied your UG GPA by a factor which was determined by your college. So, a 3.8 at Swarthmore College, which was unusually tough in the grading department back then, might be mutliplied by 1.1, which a 3.8 at Podunk State Teachers College might be multiplied by .63. Boalt (UCal-Berkeley) did this. Someone made a FOIA request for this info and to it chagrin, Boalt was forced to release it. At that point, the Cal state legislature stepped in --every Cal State U had a low factor and the legislature wasn't pleased. In any event, that list was widely posted and now and again you'll see it, but it hasn't been used in a LOT of years. </p>
<p>The LSDAS does NOT rank the quality of your institution or adjust your GPA based on where you went to college. What it does do though is to give the law schools the aggregate data it assembles for each college. A mini version of this is sent to every student who takes the LSAT and submits the score and college transcript to LSDAS. Comparing the median LSAT score with the median GPA attained by the people who took the LSAT at each college gives the law school folks an idea of how grade inflated your school is. There have been previous threads explaining all this. If you want more info, do a search. (Just checked--search for threads started by jonri and you will find it quickly.) </p>
<p>Now it's possible that there are individual law schools that still use the factor method and list colleges in tiers,but, if so, they aren't about to publicly release them. (I would assume only private schools would do this because of FOIAs.) </p>
<p>So, unless you want to look at data from Boalt that is decades out of date, you aren't going to find what you are looking for. There are some sites out there where students self-report the median GPA and LSAT for their schools. </p>
<p>If you are interested in particular colleges, you can ask the pre-law advisor or career services what the college's median LSAT and LSDAS median GPA are. The law schools get more extensive data--they know if you had a GPA in the top 10%, 20% etc. of the applicants from your college. I've never seen that data though and I doubt it's released. </p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>