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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 23, 2022

The council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions is soliciting public comments on a proposal to eliminate the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) or other standardized test for law school admissions. The council will accept comments for 90 days, Bloomberg Law reports. Law schools are currently required to ensure that applicants have completed a “valid and reliable” admission test. The new proposal comes as more than 80 U.S. law schools have allowed prospective students to take the more general Graduate Record Examination (GRE) instead of the LSAT. Schools would be permitted to continue using the LSAT, GRE or another admission test under the proposal. Bloomberg Law looks at the arguments for and against the proposal. The process for submitting comments has not yet been announced. Watch the section’s website for more information.