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<p>@Snorlaz the NYU Columbia thing was referring to getting in with a 3.0+ and a 175+ LSAT </p>

<p>Why is the grading scale easier at Harvard?</p>

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No, I’m actually pulling this out of my wife’s brain, who works at a law firm and who has been studing the legal profession for many years - plus the research I’ve done myself.</p>

<p>BTW, P in HYPS stands for Princeton, not Penn. If you didn’t know that, then I don’t know why you’d be giving any unspecialized advice to any student. (Edit: even a simple Google search clears that one up - shows how much research you actually do for yourself).</p>

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School care about 180s when there are so few to go around. Again I point to the decrasing applicant pool (there’s a whole thread about that in the LS subforum of College Confidential). For a very simplified example, if there were 10 applicants - 3 with 4.0/170s, 5 with 3.4/150s, 1 with 4.0/145, and 1 with 3.0/180 - that single 180 will at least a majority of the T14, though not all will offer the same financial aid for said student. In a world of talk about restructuring the LS system and LSs being scrutinized even more by the ABA for employment and funding purposes (even the President has spoken recently and I’ve read articles in The Economist recently alluding to the poor standards of ABA accredation), LSs would try every bit to secure as many higher LSAT scores as possible. Admittedly, the numbers are fudged all the time anyway . . .</p>

<p>I know what I know, Snorlaz and I don’t think it’s worth much more time to gripe over it. The OP can take my words with a grain of salt, of course, but just so he/she knows I’m married to a person who surrounds herself with this very kind of thing as a profession. Call me wrong. PM me when you start working for a law firm and/or LS admissions office and then well talk some more.</p>

<p>Princeton does not have a law school.</p>

<p>@turtlerock I bet you feel like an idiot now. You did not even know that Princeton did not have a law school.</p>

<p>Snorlaz should not even waste his time replying to you.</p>

<p>HAHAHAHAHAHAH best laugh I had all winter break!!</p>

<p>“Princeton Law school”</p>

<p>LOL, bro, you lost all credibility when you claimed that P stood for Princeton. You’re doing OP a disservice spewing your nonsense.</p>

<p>"the NYU Columbia thing was referring to getting in with a 3.0+ and a 175+ LSAT "</p>

<p>This is possible. A 3+ and a 175 can get you into NYU/CLS. A 3.5/175 would likely be a lock with some money at both schools. Just try to get up to the 3.5 range and you’ll be fine! </p>

<p>As for why H’s grading is easier than UCLA’s, that has to do with the HP/P/LP thing that H does. Whereas, UCLA does grades like UG. Yale doesn’t even have grades for the first semester of 1L. How cool is that? Haha.</p>

<p>“Perhaps the most obvious attempt by Harvard to improve student quality of life (and to disown its cutthroat reputation) is the grading system. The system has a recommended, but not mandatory, curve, with about one third of the class receiving the top mark of “Honors,” the bottom tenth receiving a “Low Pass,” and the middle of the pack receiving a “Pass.”</p>