I am a maverick and a reformer so I started a new program for U of I undergrads to apply in their junior year and we don’t require the LSAT. We have additional essays and an interview instead. That way, I can trap about 20 of the little bastards with high GPA’s that count and no LSAT score to count against my median. It is quite ingenious.
— Paul Pless, former dean of admissions at the University of Illinois College of Law, in a 2008 email about iLEAP, a program that offered early admission to University of Illinois undergraduates with high GPAs (and no LSAT scores).
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(The reaction of the other party to the correspondence, after the jump.)
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Here’s how Pless’s pen pal reacted, according to the investigative report prepared for the law school by Jones Day and Duff & Phelps (which Elie wrote about earlier this week):
The strategic aspect of iLEAP was not lost on Pless’s acquaintance, nor was Pless’s ingenuity: “That is clever. Jack up the GPA without risking the low LSAT (so long as their GPAs don’t crash after they’re accepted—you might want to keep the offer GPA-conditional in some way). But nice gaming the system; I’m so proud.”
Pless replied: “That will be a condition. Plus, if I don’t make them give me their final transcript until after they start, I report the GPA
that was on their application.”To this, the acquaintance remarked: “nice.”
Not so nice: getting accused by your university employer of “knowingly and intentionally” miscalculating key data, and then having to resign from your $130,000-a-year deanship.
U. of I. probe of law school reveals intense culture, falsified data [Chicago Tribune]
Investigative Report: University of Illinois College of Law Class Profile Reporting [Jones Day and Duff & Phelps]
Earlier: Illinois Law and the Lone Gunman Theory of Admissions Fraud
Another Law School Caught In A Lie
Illinois Law Restates Its Numbers: The Deception is Deeper Than We Thought