| Riddle Me This: | |
| What is this thing? | This is an interactive database designed for Law School Applicants, by Law School Applicants. The site has two main goals: 1) store an individual's progress in the application cycle and 2) aggregate sitewide information for access by current and future applicants. Lawschoolnumbers allows you to enter and display your individual stats for friends and family, as well as search aggregated sitewide statitisics by GPA, LSAT, and school. This original idea and software was written by xMatt in 2003 and adjustments were made for Law School Purposes by Mars Attacks and Justin. The current incarnation of lawschoolnumbers for the 2004-2005 application cycle was overhauled by Justin and offers many new features. |
| Do I have to enter all this information? What if I don't want to tell people where I live? |
All the fields are optional (except username, password and email). There is also an open text field for "any additional information" at the bottom
of the account edit page. Feel free to use this to explain anything that won't fit into the main fields.
In the interest of full disclosure, I think it's important to inform you that your password is not encrypted. This means the admin can view your password if he chooses to do so. I do this to make it easy for myself to delete fradulent/problematic accounts. Though I like to think I am a pretty trustworthy guy, I can see how some people would be concerned about this. For this reason I suggest you choose a password that is different from any passwords protecting sensitive information. This is for your own protection. Consider yourself warned. |
| I lost or didn't receive my Validation Email. | First you need to make sure your email address exists and is available - we get a lot of bounced emails from mailboxes over quota or that do not exist. Now, login to your account and right under your email address is a link to resend the validation email (Hint: click it). |
| Key Terms | |
| LSDAS GPA | The GPA used in Law School Applications as outlined by LSAC, 4.33 to 0.00 scale. A+ = 4.33, A = 4.00, A- = 3.66, B+ = 3.33, etc.. |
| Degree Granting GPA | The GPA received by your degree granting institution. This may differ from your LSDAS GPA depending on you school's grading policies. |
| LSAT | The Law School Admission Test, 120 - 180 scale. |
| ED | Early Decision: An application sent out early in the application cycle with the expectation of an early decision (hence the name). Admission is usually binding and non deferrable |
| EA | Early Action: An early completed application with the hope the school in quesion will give you a decision on your application before a preset date. Usually the decision will be Accepted, Rejected, or Deferred to the regular admission pool. |
| Waitlisted | An application decision where the applicant will be notified of their Acceptance or Rejection at a later date. Usually the school likes the applicant but does not have enough room to guarantee them a seat. Final decision sometimes come weeks before the start of school. |
| Deferred | An applicant where their final decision has been pushed back to a later time. Synonymous with "Held." |
| What the hell is an Admission Index Number? | Admission Index Numbers are used by many law schools to combine your GPA and LSAT into one number that takes into account what the law school wants to emphasize - it allows them to weigh your GPA or LSAT. All Law Schools who use index numbers multiply your GPA and LSAT by two specific numbers and then add a constant:Index Number = GPA(xGPAnum) + LSAT(xLSATnum) + CONSTANTnum)The Princeton Review has more information if you are interested. To find out how your Admission Index Number stacks up to past applicants plug in a school's 25/75th percentile GPA and LSAT and compare it to your index number, the higher the better. |
| Email Privacy? | Your Email information will remain confidential and will only be used for direct communication between lawschoolnumbers.com and you (password retrieval and account verification). Your email address will not be made public or sold/given/lent/traded/etc. to anyone for any reason, period. We firmly believe in keeping personal information private. |
| Some Rights Reserved? | I have decided to license all the data contained in lawschoolnumbers under a Creative Commons License. In essence, this allows anyone to take the data contained on this site and create something new as long as they conform to a few basic rules. For example, if you want to run detailed statistics on when school X sends out acceptances for EA/ED applicants with a specific admission index number, I encourage you to publish your results. You must, however, conform to the CC license 1) You cannot charge people to view your results. 2) You must cite Lawschoolnumbers as the source of your original data. 3) You must license your work under an identical license to the one used by Lawschoolnumbers. Click here for the specifics. I firmly believe this will allow a greater understanding of the law school admission process for all involved. |
| Linking LSN | Please feel free to link LSN in any way you see fit. Personally, I think stipulations in linking a webpage destroys the value of the web - if you don't want people to see something don't put it on a publically accessable server or simply password protect it. The internet is a public place and I cannot in good conscience restrict a public area. If you do link LSN it would be nice to let me know, but it is up to you.
Update: I give youBoingBoing's policy as my own. LawSchoolNumbers doesn't believe in linking policies. They're dangerous, have no basis in law, and they break the norms that make the Web possible. They're a wicked, stupid idea. |
| How do you determine the most popular users? | Each time a user's info page is viewed, the views counter is incremented. The number of times the page has been viewed is displayed right under the username on the info page. The users on the "50 Most Popular" are ranked by number of times they've been viewed (in the event of a tie, the user whose account is oldest wins). The number displayed next to the username in the top 50 list is the number of page views for that user. |
| I have a suggestion, or I found a bug. | Use this form to comminicate bugs and feature requests. |
| Send comments to webmaster@lawschoolnumbers.com, .
Initial concept by xMatt, adapted and modified by Justin and Sunjeev. 11 Users are currently logged in - 300 Users have logged in today BigWhiteEnvelope, Bkeifer83, bucky42, chitowngator, jfq4999, lmr123, markymarkchitown, mrkareem, relle11, sthboy, tristripe2009 Generated in 3.984 Seconds | |
