By Nicole Lefton, C. Benjie Louis, and Cara D’AgostinoIntroduction

“Just take students with higher LSATs and GPAs!” As legal educators, we have heard this sentiment many times over the years as we explore new ways to improve our students’ bar passage results. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple strategy is untenable for three reasons. First, our law school, like many across the country, must face economic realities when evaluating students for admission, and this means we cannot simply accept only students with 175+ LSAT scores and 4.0 undergraduate GPAs. Second, when reviewing our applicant pool, we find that applicants tend to cluster in the same range on these metrics; the slight differential among these scores (say, an LSAT ...

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