akuperman: I agree with you. It makes sense that some BTL guys really are just that smart and talented and hard-working, so they succeed brilliantly by either excelling in some respects despite poor writing and speaking abilities, or learning what they are lacking.
Nevertheless, from a statistical standpoint (and I doesn’t understand the science of statistics that well) it seems that yeshiva guys who take the LSAT and go to law school should be a fairly evenly distributed sample set of the general population who fall on a bell curve of ability to succeed in law school. It is statistically strange that 80% of them end up on the extremes and only 20% exhibit average abilities to adapt to their new environment