ACCOUNTABILITY POST: Grade Farming

[PreLawCoastie]

I'm not going to say you can't get into an Ivy League college, but it's very difficult. Grades alone won't be the deciding factor in whether you get accepted or not.

There's a detailed 10,000+ word blog post that explores this topic in depth:
https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...ool-Part-2

You can also listen to a 7-minute audio version here:
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/8...df14/audio

Since you attended both PSU and UMPI, I'm curious how the quality, rigor, and time commitment compared between the two.

Night and day. UMPI is of course shorter, but the level of feedback from the professors and quality of material is laughable at times. I had a back and forth with Dr. Hinson last semester - two of the slides in the Marxism course are literally just copy and pasted articles from communist and socialist group websites with no attribution. The rumor is that he grades with AI, so when i replied that i didn’t cite the articles in my milestone because he’d plagiarized them he he got very offended and said he would “pass those concerns on to the dean.” Never heard anything.

All the PSU courses ive taken with two exceptions - the theatre and musical theatre survey courses - have been identical in workload and rigor to a full semester state school course. Of course the grading and expectation vary from professor, but you really do need to read, research and put effort in.  And, you know, they don’t plagiarize the course material…

If I can get my GPA and LSAT where they need to be, I don’t see why I wouldn’t be competitive for a T14. PSU is a perfectly good if not elite school, I’ m a legacy at Columbia, will have a masters by the time i apply, and the miltary organizations are very active and tend to be a good soft. Am i missing something here?

You can get into a T14 school with a strong LSAT score. Being a legacy will also give you an edge at Columbia.  I was wondering if you were spending too much time worrying about grades and not enough time studying for the LSAT. Anyway, it seems like your plan is good overall.

It was kind of funny how you called out the UMPI professor for not citing articles—such drama!

It was intense! He seems like a nice enough guy, and everyone else online seems to tolerate him, but clearly we don’t get along. I just cannot tolerate academic dishonesty like that.

Do you know if UMPI’s A+ is recognized by the LSAC? When I pull it up on IGUGS it doesn’t show up as an option, but they wouldn’t just ignore it right? Even a few A+s would help a lot.