appind wrote:cavalier1138 wrote:
It was hyperbole; don't be dense.
don't know what you're proving. hyperbole or strawman, it doesn't answer the question and what you say deflects from the question that was asked as you have no reliable source for its answer which is fine.
carsondalywashere wrote:
Anecdotal evidence, but also didn't say "solid odds." I know of people with those stats who have transferred to Harvard is what I meant.
yeah i figured that's what you meant and was confirming.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. You initially appeared in this thread in response to the post I reproduce I below:
QContinuum wrote:I think it's difficult to say for sure, because so very few people ever apply to transfer from CLS to HLS that there's little to no data on what GPA/percentile is required to be accepted. Top quarter is probably a reasonable assumption. It might just as easily be top third, or top fifth, or top 15%, or even top 10%. We can probably assume median or below wouldn't be accepted. But in any case it just simply doesn't make sense. If you're top quarter at Columbia (or top third, fifth, 15%, 10%, whatever), you're almost certainly better served by staying at Columbia and deepening your existing connections there than transferring to Harvard and starting all over from ground zero with the professors and your new classmates. There are no doors that are closed to high-GPA Columbia students. Much of the initial edge of Harvard vs. CCN - (somewhat) greater downside protection in case of mediocre/bad law school grades - is obviated once we limit ourselves to only looking at top-performing CCN students.
So let's assume,
arguendo, that you're right that even top 10% at CCN won't get you into Harvard as a transfer. Let's say it's top 5%, or top [insert-your-preferred-single-digit-number]%. That
strengthens my overall point. If your grades are top 10% or better at CCN, there is nothing you could get from Harvard that you couldn't also get from CCN, whether it's D.C. BigLaw or clerkships or whatever. You'd actually be better served staying at CCN, where you already have relationships with your peers and (presumably) already have solid relationships with your 1L professors.