Talk:Law School Admission Test

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Canadian Content

The opening line of the article states that the test is for America, and Canada, but the entire article seems to have an american slant.--129.173.96.19 17:23, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian LSAT students represent a nearly insignificant minority of total LSAT students. Thus, the amount of specific attention they get in this article is nearly insignificant. That's called "fair proportion".--76.209.50.222 02:22, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Canada, and Mexico, as well as the United States of, are all in the North part of America (see NAFTA, or a map). Stating that the entire article has an 'american slant' is likely correct, although there is no mention of Mexico in either entry above. The LSAT for the US and Canada are invigilated by the Law School Admissions Council, which also doesn't appear to reference Mexico. Canadian representation is 15 of 200 institutions, or roughly 7.5%. One interesting tidbit is that whilst Canadian Universities can belong to US organizations, such as LSAC and vice versa, try watching a Canadian get a US drivers license in any state - the most common answer from the state representative is 'you guys have different laws up there. Don't you drive on the other side of the road or something?' (ref Newport Beach, CA, Tampa, FL and Annapolis MD driver testing facilities).

The following excerpt is taken from http://www.lsat.org/LSAC.asp?url=lsac/about-lsac.asp, retrieved 10 Feb 2007. The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is a nonprofit corporation whose members are more than 200 law schools in the United States and Canada. All law schools approved by the American Bar Association are LSAC members. Fifteen Canadian law schools recognized by a provincial or territorial law society or government agency are also included in the voting membership of the Council.

Headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles north of Philadelphia, the Council is best known for administering the Law School Admission Test (LSAT®). An average of 140,000 prospective law students take this test each year. With the guidance and support of volunteers representing its member schools, LSAC provides a growing number of important services and programs for law schools and their applicants. 68.146.34.219 18:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyeditting Admissions Section

The admissions section was quite prolix, so I trimmed repetitive material. In the process it becomes clear that there's a contradiction: the weighted composite score is supposed to correlate more highly to FY grades than individual scores, yet different schools use different weights; some statistical sleight-of-hand seems likely here. Also it is unfortunate that no-one seems to be considering the end-result of interest: people who practice lawyering well. But that of course is not the fault of wikipedia. rewinn 05:42, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It seems improper to have a link to a commercial test prep company. No doubt Kaplan and Testmasters and whoever else may have "useful" info, too -- are we going to provide a comprehensive commercial list? Lorettagrace

agreed. well done. Goldencrisp87 06:09, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced advice & trivia

A lot of this article is just advice "students would be smart to do this or that" and also trivia that is better found elsewhere than wikipedia, e.g. the number of questions per section this year. It's also worth noting (although to do some might be OR) that LSAC states that preparation correlates to LSAT scores and that LSAT scores correlate to 1L grades; the obvious conclusion would be that LSAT preparation correlates to 1L grades. This would suggest that the casual link between LSAT scores and 1L grades is the willingness to prepare, which is facially more plausible than the idea that a multiple-choice puzzle exam is at all related to law school essay exams. But, as I said, that's OR. rewinn 02:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It might alternatively imply that everybody has an innate score, which is correlated both to their actual score and to their law school performance. This would be especially true if prep tends to cancel out across applicants -- i.e. if many applicants experience a bump of roughly similar magnitude. unsigned comment by 128.252.115.130 on 03:35, 15 March 2007
Non sequitur rewinn 21:07, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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