Tag: LSAT

Can the GRE Cure What Ails Law Schools?

As more law schools accept a new admissions test from aspiring law students, debate about their motives and whether they’ll meet their goals of diversifying the applicant pool has swirled behind the scenes. Law deans hope to recruit a new type of law student by accepting applications that use Graduate Record Examination scores, rather than …

Texas A&M Law School Joins the GRE Crowd

Texas A&M University School of Law is the first in the Lone Star State to join a growing national trend of law schools accepting the Graduate Record Examination in admissions. Hoping to broaden and diversify its pool of applicants, Texas A&M announced Tuesday that prospective law students applying to be Aggies in fall 2018 will …

LSAT-Takers Trending Up Following 5-Year Plunge. Why?

A continuing surge in the number of people taking the Law School Admission Test this year provides another glimmer of hope to law schools that a drought in the applicant pool might be ending. LSAT numbers have seen modest single-digit gains in the last two testing years, following a five-year decline in which the number …