Patent ID: 8682807

Claim:
A method for identifying and recruiting applicants for admission to a law school, said method comprising: identifying a pool of standardized test takers who possess undergraduate GPA (UGPA) and standardized LSAT test score combinations that are insufficient to gain regular admission to a law school, wherein the identifying is performed using a computer product that correlates the test takers' UGPAs and LSAT test scores to a predetermined shifting range of UGPAs and LSAT test scores, wherein said identifying further comprises computing a shifting range of LSAT test scores and UGPAs for said test takers, and identifying those test takers having an LSAT test score and UGPA falling within said shifting range; offering a program for admission to the law school to the identified test takers, wherein the program for admission includes an abbreviated academic program that includes at least two abbreviated courses conducted over a shortened academic term; providing instruction in the abbreviated academic program to the test takers who accept the offer to participate in the program for admission; administering to test takers in the program for admission at least one essay examination over a computer communications network for each said abbreviated course during said abbreviated academic program, wherein said administering further comprises scoring each said examination based on a calibrated grading process and using scores from each said examination to calculate a composite score for each test taker in the program for admission; determining, via a computer, a score that correlates with a satisfactory level of academic success achieved by regularly admitted students at the law school; determining which test takers achieve a composite score that exceeds the score that is determined to correlate with the satisfactory level of academic success achieved by regularly admitted students at the law school and therefore should be admitted into the law school; and admitting to the law school those test takers determined to have achieved a composite score that exceeds the score that is determined to correlate with the satisfactory level of academic success at the law school achieved by regularly admitted students at the law school, wherein the score that is determined to correlate with the satisfactory level of academic success at the law school achieved by regularly admitted students at the law school is a composite of the final exam grades in the courses for regularly admitted students at the law school who have successfully completed one year at the law school, and wherein the shifting range of LSAT test scores and UGPAs comprises: LSAT LSDAS GPA Self-Reported GPA 130-135 2.80-4.33 3.00-3.49, 3.50-3.74, 3.75+ 136-140 2.60-4.33 3.00-3.49, 3.50-3.74, 3.75+ 141-145 2.25-2.80 2.50-2.99.