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Every application is reviewed by at least two people-Dean Z and a first reader; no artificial intelligence is involved, unless you count Dean Z’s caffeine habit. And thanks for the suggestion-we’ll try to cover that soon!

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can this please be answered in a future video ?

It’s hard for me to work with counterfactuals this way-a lot would depend on the content and nature of the UGPA explanation! But I can say with confidence that a 156 alone would not give me pause.

Thank you for your response!

The brief answer is-it’s complicated. For a longer answer, check out: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eMukh6qB2rfJcpc.html

@Michigan Law, Thank you!!

I use the data about a given undergraduate school’s mean LSAT as a way of getting some information about the strength of that institution, as well as for gauging the strength of an applicant within the context of that school. For example, if you have a very strong UGPA at a school with an LSAT mean that is on the lower end, and you also have an LSAT score that is meaningfully higher than the mean at your school, that would help me conclude that you are a truly strong student who, for any number of possible reasons, started their higher-ed journey at a relatively weak institution. To be very clear: There is no particular formula or weight that I or another admissions officer would give to this information-it’s just part of the swirl of considerations that helps paint a portrait of a candidate.

Second, I'm interested to know your take on the pronoun one should use to describe a person whose gender identity you do not know. In my state, judges have routinely been bracketing [he or she]/[his or her] into quotes from statutes or cases that are too old to have been written in gender neutral terms. However, "she/he" and "his/her" are sometimes being replaced by "they" and "their" in writing about a single person, primarily by those who wish to escape gender dichotomies. Therefore, my question is: suppose you were writing or reviewing an admissions document, like a personal or diversity statement, addendum, etc. Is it grammatically sound for you/the writer to use "they" and "their," or should the wordier "she or he" and "his or her" conventions be used? For example, suppose the following sentences were in an addenda: "I appealed the grade I received in my MISC 200 course by following the steps in my college's undergraduate handbook. My final paper was assigned to a random, anonymous professor in the same department for re-grading. [BLANK] read it, and marked the paper 20 points higher than my course professor. As a result, the Department Chair overturned my course grade, and my academic suspension terminated." In place of the [BLANK], would the applicant write "They" or "He or she" to refer to the anonymous professor to whom the task of re-grading fell? Many Thanks!

Thanks for this! I will try to find an app to review from a small school, but meanwhile-you should definitely, definitely not feel like you have to address this at all. We admissions folks are used to it. It is not a problem for the applicant in the slightest.

That's a good question about pronouns! So good, in fact, that I'm going to save my answer for an upcoming episode.

@@umichlaw I'm excited to see it!

I assume you mean, “is working at a law firm the kind of experience that is more likely to get you into law school than working somewhere else?,” and the answer is “no.” It’s a great thing for an applicant to do for themselves, to begin to understand the world of legal employment-but there are many, many, many valuable pre-law school working experiences. As a rough estimate, only about 20% of our incoming classes typically have worked in law firms.