re: #691 Obdicut

I’ll address this part (since it applies to anyone in the grad school/law school/med school process):

If MCATS are a predictor of med school success, why do the schools factor in anything else? Please take this question rather seriously, since it’s the obvious, glaring weak point of your argument.

If you have two candidates with the same MCAT score but only one slot, you need to take other factors into consideration to differentiate and judge a better candidate for school - who will be more successful.

That brings in other educational scoring (grades/transcripts), extracurricular activities (for rounding out student base), geographical distributions, race, gender, ethnicity, or legacy admissions.

LSATs are a judge of law school success, but not completely. After all someone can do average on the LSAT, get into a law school, and excel. They may not make the big name firm, but can end up doing great things. We’ve got bar exams to take in NYS that are as difficult as any exam anyone has to take. It washes out even top people. To that end, a guy I know who graduated from Albany Law, failed the NYS bar exam a couple of times, and then not only managed to pass, but has gone on to great things… you might have heard of him - Andrew Cuomo, Gov. of NYS.