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Aurora · Nov 27, 2006

LSAT's are definitely different. But I agree SAT's suck. I remember the day I took mine I was sick and didn't do well at all. What is that other test though (God it's been a long time). I did well on that one. Got some scholarships based off of that score.

Angel Tarragon · Nov 27, 2006

Aurora said:
LSAT's are definitely different. But I agree SAT's suck. I remember the day I took mine I was sick and didn't do well at all. What is that other test though (God it's been a long time). I did well on that one. Got some scholarships based off of that score.

Never had to take erither. Is that good or bad?

Dannyalcatraz · Nov 28, 2006

When I took it, I got a 42...

out of 48.

They had a different scoring system back then. It was the highest minority score in TX, and one of the highest in the nation for a non-white. I should have gotten a perfect score (I know exactly which ones I missed and why), but I was slightly sleep deprived and hungry that day.

My Dad called me to pick him up at the airport that morning, so I missed breakfast. Then, due to traffic, I couldn't get across town fast enough to catch a snack before the test.

Dog Moon · Nov 28, 2006

ACTs? That's what I took. My friend did the same. I scored super high in English and horrible in math, and he did the opposite. Had we been able to combine our tests, we would have done soooo well.

Dannyalcatraz · Nov 28, 2006

Unless you combined the low scores...

With the exception of the Bar exam (which I had to take more than once), I've scored in the 98th percentile or higher on every standardized test I've ever taken...

and I'm a lousy, lazy student. Unless I looOOOOove the topic, I have a bad habit of "phoning it in" to get a high "B" or low "A" (and a smattering of other grades when I underestimate the topic's difficulty

).

Jdvn1 · Nov 28, 2006

Dannyalcatraz said:
When I took it, I got a 42...

out of 48.

Yup. It's currently out of 180. My (minority) brother probably scored in the 99th percentile. He's kind of a freak like that, though.

Still, no stipend that I know of. Shame.

Dannyalcatraz · Nov 28, 2006

Well, I was both crafty and lucky...I chose a good school that really, really, really wanted black students.

While I got into Yale and University of Chicago (respectively ranked 2 & 1 at the time), both of them were extremely expensive. Chicago in particular was my fave...but they had made some bad land deals, so much of their scholarship money had dried up at the time.

I went to UT, which for me was both a state school AND ranked 16th in the nation...they were happy to get me with my scores. They had also been trying to erase a reputation for racism. There were only 20 blacks in my class of 500+, and the frats had a reputaion (well deserved) of being the most violent in the nation. In fact, while I was there, a large-ish posse of them shouted racial (and other) epithets at the student body president (a black lesbian) while she was speaking at a peace rally.

In broad daylight.

On the campus' scenic main walkway. (You know, the one where in 1966, Charles Whitman in the tower claimed many of his victims.)

Without retribution. Without even FEAR of retribution. (And there was none.)

And this was in the 1990s, when white students were claiming reverse discrimination about being denied entry into the lawschool.

mmmmmMMMMmmmm- DIXIE!

I suspect your sibs are the victims of the fact that there are many more minorities entering lawschool these days, and that there is even less scholarship money to go around.

Dannyalcatraz · Nov 28, 2006

Hmmm...my last post was a bit of a downer.

Anybody here play guitar?

How about...cowbell?

Jdvn1 · Nov 28, 2006

UT is still a really strong law school--my ex-Marine/future-lawyer friend is currently going there. I'm glad you got through that okay! My brother, I think, expects to go to a top 5 school, which isn't so helpful for spending small amounts of money.

Are you still in Texas?