But honestly, does this advice help anyone? If your score is below the 150s, you already know you will face challenges with admissions at many schools. You do not need someone online telling you that you are incapable. And if you do manage to get accepted somewhere despite a lower score, guess what? The admissions committee saw something valuable in you beyond that single number.

While presenting this as “friendly advice” to help people avoid wasting time and money, what they are actually doing is gatekeeping based on a single metric without considering the countless circumstances that affect test performance. They were not trying to help anyone. They were using this platform to brag about their own score while making sweeping generalizations about people they know nothing about.

This speaks to a deeper issue with this sub: the obsession with metrics and stats over actual people and their unique stories.

Maybe the person who scored below 150 is a single mother working two jobs who could not dedicate months to test prep. Maybe they are a first-generation student navigating the admissions process without guidance. Maybe they are a military officer with a lower GPA because they were deployed while enrolled, like someone shared on this sub earlier this year.

Better advice would have been: “Be cautious about taking on massive debt” or “Carefully research school accreditation and bar passage rates.” But instead, they simply said “do not try” and suggested that certain people should be disqualified entirely from pursuing their goals.

The LSAT is one test on one day. It measures certain skills, but it does not measure your dedication, your passion for justice, your ability to connect with clients, or your work ethic. Some of the most successful attorneys did not ace standardized tests but excel at actual legal practice.

And so I say to all of you: no matter your score, there will always be people in law school who try to discourage you, rank you, or make you feel like you do not belong. Do not let them run you off. Your determination and resilience in the face of these attitudes might say more about your future success than any test score.

Numbers do not practice law. People do. The best attorneys are not always the ones who tested best. They are the ones who never quit.

If that is your dream then go to law school. No number can define what you are capable of building.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lawschooladmissions/comments/1k9vgrj/go_to_law_school_if_thats_your_dream/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5717471&forum_id=2#48886919)