I appreciate the comments. I am thinking about writing a significantly different paper, but I do want to address one point here. The correlation between LSAT and law school grades seems to be either (1) irrelevant or (2) confirming of the problems with the LSAT.

I think we all could write 1000 words on why the average law school exam fails to accurately measure either our own content knowledge or legal prowess. After my first exam I made a conscious decision to shut down the creative part of my brain and just write an answer. Embarrassingly, my grades on my second and third exams were higher. Being able to predict future exam results, if doing well on exams does not mean one will be a good lawyer, seems to be irrelevant. I imagine the correlation is due to the fact that the two things assess similar qualities (reading quickly, memory, intellectually conservative thinking).

-- AdamCarlis - 28 Mar 2008