<p>How does the LSAT factor into law school admissions? I read in one of the law school admissions guidebooks that it could account for as much as 75% of the criteria for the top law schools, even though the law schools don't admit this.</p>
<p>It is definitely VERY important, more than SATs were for college.</p>
<p>I personally love the LSAT... logic puzzles are so fun.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>Adirector of the Rexx Pharmaceutical Company argued
that the development costs for new vaccines that the
health department has requested should be subsidized by
the government, since the marketing of vaccines
promised to be less profitable than the marketing of any
other pharmaceutical product. In support of this claim
the director argued that sales of vaccines are likely to be
lower since each vaccine is administered to a patient
only once, whereas medicines that combat diseases and
chronic illnesses are administered many times to each
patient.
Which one of the following, if true, most weakens the
support offered by the company director for the claim
concerning the marketing of vaccines?
(A) Vaccines are administered to many more people
than are most other pharmaceutical products.
(B) Many of the diseases that vaccines are designed
to prevent can be successfully treated by
medicines.
(C) Pharmaceutical companies occasionally market
products that are neither medicines nor vaccines.
(D) Pharmaceutical companies other than the Rexx
Pharmaceutical Company produce vaccines.
(E) The cost of administering a vaccine is rarely
borne by the pharmaceutical company that
manufactures that vaccine.</p>
<p>The answer is A. The director says that vaccine sales will be lower than medicine sales because they aren't used as much. If you want to weaken his argument you must defend vaccines. A seems pretty good. B is pro-medicine, and C seems irrelevant. D is sort of anti-vaccine as it's like "this will hurt our sales even more with competition" and E is just irrelevant.</p>
<p>I almost want to take the LSAT now :X It looks fun</p>
<p>okay, thanks zante and legend. on an earlier search, I found this quote from a sub-site of the same link you provided. </p>
<p>"How important are your GPA and LSAT score? Estimates vary, but most observers would likely agree that GPA/LSAT data account for 75-90% percent of admissions decisions (if, in fact, it is possible to speak of such things in percentages). This also varies by law school, obviously, but even the top schools place enormous emphasis on GPA and LSAT data."</p>
<p>do the law students and grads on this forum agree? This kid on the other forum thought I was hallucinating.</p>
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<p>I agree! The logic games are always a good challenge.</p>
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<p>I suggest reading Anna Ivey's text on Law School Admissions; she coherently expounds on the importance of the LSAT and GPA. I would provide a recapitulation, but I do not want to distort what was given. You should be able to peruse the relevant pages on Amazon.com's 'Look Inside' feature.</p>
<p>nspeds, feel free to "distort." I trust you enough.</p>
<p>If you want, you can use the chiashu calculator (find it on google) and plug in hypothetical numbers to see the importance of the LSAT score, which is indeed huge.</p>
<p>Distort? Is that a variation on a standard 1L course? ;)</p>
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<p>Sorry, it is not in my idiom.</p>
<p>(Monty Python reference, hah!)</p>
<p>A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat.</p>
<p>I did half the work for you!</p>
<p>Oh, i've toyed with that before. I was speaking more about the book that you've read. Thanks for reposting that link, though. It's one of the couple things that someone should just post on a new thread every few weeks or month or so.</p>