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<p>This may be, but what an admissions officer perceives is what an admissions officer perceives.</p>
<p>^^but don’t the adcoms recieve a report from LDAS showing the grade distributions of law school wannabees from each school? If so, they’ll see the mean gpa in plain black and white, not to mention mean LSAT scores…</p>
<p>There are a lot of factors that make the analysis rather limited in terms of usefulness. I’m too lazy to mention all of them, but the one that immediately jumps to my mind is: The GPAs might be artificially inflated because, I believe, it’s limited to people applying to law school.</p>
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<p>But that is no different than every other applicant from every other school. For example, a law school adcom recieves an app and LDAS report from someone at Northwestern and someone from Chicago; both have similar gpa’s and LSAT scores. Adcom then sees that the mean gpa of the applicants from each school is the same – perhaps “inflated” bcos they are limited to people applying th law school – but the point is that the average is similar (and similar to Grinnell, btw). Why would adcom then “percieve” Chicago to be more rigorous? The data show otherwise. (bdm’s data also show the same, btw)</p>