154 LSAT in at Yale

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  tekken1225 Alum Member

  September 2018 770 karma

  Yeah, I saw that the other day when randomly looking at law school class profiles, and was curious.

  The guy or gal must have been a Nobel Prize winner, an astronaut, or won multiple gold medals at the Olympics or something.
• ad_coelum Alum Member

  September 2018 285 karma

  Never say never!
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  sx23 Alum Member

  September 2018 409 karma

  Saw a post on reddit of somebody in at Yale with a 161. Yale is definitely the most unpredictable school so always give it a try I guess
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  FoolProofFun Alum Member

  September 2018 edited September 2018 122 karma

  My take on this kind of thing is that for institutions that are that high up, you can never eliminate the connections factor where a certain student is "encouraged to apply" with some sort of implicit assurance that they will have a shot. Of course, that is assuming that the admissions process itself doesn't already do that to a certain extent, which it might be possible to say is the case. I honestly don't think there are that many 151's applying, but of course we will never know because if they don't apply, who can judge how many would get in. Ugh.
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  tekken1225 Alum Member

  September 2018 770 karma

  @FoolProofFun said:
  My take on this kind of thing is that for institutions that are that high up, you can never eliminate the connections factor where a certain student is "encouraged to apply" with some sort of implicit assurance that they will have a shot.

  Totally agree. Look at the members of the... first family... cough, cough.
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  10000019 Alum Member

  September 2018 3279 karma

  @FoolProofFun said:
  My take on this kind of thing is that for institutions that are that high up, you can never eliminate the connections factor

  I feel like if your family has those kinds of connections then they probably can afford to hire an elite tutor for you.

  My speculation is that the person with a 154 is non-native English speaker who has some other amazing things going on.
• JPJ July2021 Core Member

  September 2018 1532 karma

  Yale is truly a black box when it comes to admissions. Usually one needs really high stats but their review process is so different from other schools you never really know what will happen.
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  Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  September 2018 27900 karma

  Yale can afford to be creative for certain people with qualifications beyond stats.

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• FoolProofFun Alum Member

  September 2018 122 karma

  Agree w basically everything said. If I had to guess at whether it was connections or a unique person I’d say a unique person for sure. As someone else pointed out, you can’t discount what a bunch of yale professors will notice in an application, and they do have so many sky high scorers they have room for unique applicants. Props to them.
• Sprinkles Alum Member ⭐

  September 2018 11542 karma

  You really have nothing to lose in applying to HYS , Especially Y.
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  Tom_Tango Alum Member

  September 2018 902 karma

  @Sprinkles said:
  You really have nothing to lose in applying to HYS , Especially Y.

  the application fee
• 10000019 Alum Member

  September 2018 3279 karma

  @Tom_Tango said:

  @Sprinkles said:
  You really have nothing to lose in applying to HYS , Especially Y.

  the application fee

  So I didn't apply to HYS for that exact reason. In retrospect, I would have applied. Even if you get on the waitlist that is good in case you want to apply as a transfer.
• AudaciousRed Alum Member

  September 2018 2689 karma

  So, there's hope for me yet?
• Mia Fairweather Alum Member

  September 2018 221 karma

  @"Cant Get Right" is well right, they have tons of people applying that have high GPAs and LSAT scores in the 170s so adding "diversity" to their class may mean accepting someone with a 154.
  I actually have a friend that got a 158 and got into UChicago Law and I also remember talking to people in admissions and Georgetown and they told me that a student was excepted with a 149 LSAT score, he had an extremely high GPA. That being said, if its a school you really want to go to don't make a decision not to apply because you don't think you will get in, you never know
• eRetaker Free Trial Member

  September 2018 2043 karma

  Well it certainly makes you wonder how insanely rare their softs must be. There are plenty of applicants with very strong softs that are routinely rejected each year with much higher numbers. I would imagine it is probably an Olympian or Nobel Prize level of softs for Yale to dip almost 20 points below their median and the applicant probably also had a very high GPA.
• MindyKale Alum Member

  September 2018 350 karma

  One person I read about got in because they were the only living person/family in their tribe or something of that nature. We never know! And I don't think it makes much of a difference to think too much about these type of things too.
• LCMama2017 Alum Member

  September 2018 2134 karma

  @MindyKale said:
  One person I read about got in because they were the only living person/family in their tribe or something of that nature. We never know! And I don't think it makes much of a difference to think too much about these type of things too.

  Nope, I don't have anything remotely similar like that in my background. I guess no Yale for me!