<p>Is there any correlation between age and LSAT score?</p>
<p>Probably yes, but artifactual. That is, I suspect you get a U-distribution. Students who want to go to law school and are prepared take it right away, so it starts off high. Students who want to go to law school and delay to prepare probably end up lower. Then students who didn’t at first want to go to law school but can switch careers mid-life probably have a bimodal distribution: some are just feeling a little bored and, say, go to night school; a few are Harvard material and jump for that opportunity, but they’re rarer. So it probably drops even further.</p>
<p>But this isn’t because older folks are inherently any worse. It’s a selection bias.</p>
<p>More importantly, this is just me hypothesizing.</p>