<p>I know there were some takers on here, how'd you do?</p>
<p>Your February 10, 2007 LSAT score is 172. The percentile rank is 99.</p>
<p>Congratulations, neverborn:)</p>
<p>172 is 99th percentile? but either way congrats neverborn!</p>
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172 is 99th percentile? but either way congrats neverborn!
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<p>Yes, it is.</p>
<p>Thanks, guys.</p>
<p>Birchum: Apparently so.
169: 97
164: 91
160: 82
150: 44.5</p>
<p>I think that everything 170+ ends up being (or at the lowest end, perhaps rounding up to) 99th percentile (and bear in mind that it's the 99th percentile of LSAT takers, which is a skewed group in the first place).</p>
<p>Part of why it's so entertaining to see high school seniors "assuming" that they'll get a 173 ;o)</p>
<p>99th starts at 172, not 170.</p>
<p>Having such a spread at the top is both a very intelligent and very stupid way to structure the test.</p>
<p>It's very stupid because it means that law schools are often making distinctions between candidates who are genuinely very close together. The difference between a 178 and a 180 is less than 1/10th of a percentile point -- surely not a significant difference. You can only imagine the gap from a 178 to a 179, which is probably less than half of that. And yet every point counts.</p>
<p>It's very intelligent because the alternative to arbitrary spreading is no spreading at all, leaving you to guess at [example, SAT's] which of the 1600's is actually a 1600 and which of them would have been a 1700 if only the test measured a little bit higher.</p>
<p>MCATs are structured like that to the extreme. A perfect score is a 45, but nobody ever actually gets that. Max in the country is usually a 42 or so, and a 40 is already the 99.8th percentile (August 2004).</p>
<p>Yes, hence "rounding up to 99th percentile." I'm also speaking generally, not specifically of February. Thanks for the specifics, though.</p>
<p>there doesn't seem to be much of a point to expressing scores in anything but percentiles. either your scores consistently match percentiles, which percentiles do of themselves, or they don't, in which what do they stand for? don't they set scoring based on samples?</p>
<p>No one ever gets a 45?</p>
<p>Here's 173-180 for you kids:</p>
<p>180 99.9
179 99.9
178 99.9
177 99.8
176 99.7
175 99.6
174 99.3
173 99.1</p>
<p>Reading results from another site- (top law school) other results and percentages are as follows: </p>
<p>So--For all you other test takers--
(Yes there are people who actually score below 172- the other 99 %)</p>
<p>170 98 %
166 94
165 93
164 91
160 82
156 68
154 61
152 53 %</p>
<p>The above info is based on scores received by kids posting on the other site- therefore their are gaps- But it just gives a bit more info. especially for those not in the top 1 % of testtakers.</p>
<p>And Congrats Neverborn- you did good!! (real good)</p>
<p>Nobody ever gets a 45. I think there might have been one a few years back, but in any given year, it's very unlikely. For medical boards, ("Step I"), nobody gets a perfect score either. The perfect score is 300, and the national max is usually around 265, with a 280 being nearly unheard of.</p>
<p>nspeds, your PMs are off.</p>