REVIEW

In the preceding section, we introduced the index function          INDEX = LSATScore  + M*UGPA, where  M  is chosen by the law school. We shall considerthe distributionn of  M.

 

THE DISTRIBUTION OF  M = B/A

More than 87 percent of the law schools that implicitly selected  M  have  M  inclusively between 7.000 and 16.000.   The average value of  M  is 12.334 and the median is 10.942.   The value of  M  ranges from 4.520 (New England School of Law) to 26.966 (UC Berkeley).

NUMBER OF     NUMBER OF VALUE OF  M LAW SCHOOLS   VALUE OF  M LAW SCHOOLS           4.000-4.999 2   12.000-12.499 10 5.000-5.999 3   12.500-12.999 10 6.000-6.999 5   13.000-13.999 9 7.000-7.999 7   14.000-14.999 7 8.000-8.999 12   15.000-15.999 8 9.000-9.499 9   16.000-16.999 1 9.500-9.999 12   17.000-17.999 0 10.000-10.499 20   18.000-18.999 2 10.500-10.999 16   19.000-20.999 2 11.000-11.499 12   21.000-23.999 2 11.500-11.999 15   24.000-26'999 2

THE ADMISSION INDEX OF THE TOP 18 LAW SCHOOLS

RANK 2911           RANK               1 Yale U N/A   10 U Virginia  N/A 2 Harvard  N/A   11.5 Duke U 12.762 3 Stanford 22.333   11.5 Northwestern U 15.018 4 Columbia 12.422    13  Cornell U 11.074 5 U Chicago N/A            14 Georgetown U N/A 6 New Yok U N/A   15.5 UCLA 11.000  7.5 UC Berkeley 26.966   15.5 U Texas N/A 7.5 U Pennsylvania N/A   17 Vanderbilt U 15.018 9 U Michigan N/A   18 U S California 13.667