Harvard Law has its LSAT medians posted and I am wondering what the practical implications/takeaways are for someone who wants to apply. I understand what medians are, but am just confused about what the take away would be given the much bigger difference between 50 and 75 vs 50 and 25. The numbers are as follows:
25h percentile: 170
50th percentile: 174
75th percentile: 176
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>I understand what medians are, but am just confused about what the take away would be given the much bigger difference between 50 and 75 vs 50 and 25.
To be clear, these are percentiles, and only the 50th percentile is synonymous to the median.
The take away here is that there are an equal amount of people (25% of the total) who scored 170-174, as people who scored 174-176. Same number of scores in smaller range = scores are more concentrated in that range. The distribution skews to the right.
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