The Law School Admission Test, the long-held standard for admission to most American law schools, may no longer be required in a couple of years. A subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Standards Review Committee is considering making usage of the test voluntary for its member schools instead of mandatory.
people will have equal access to the Law School Admissions Council Inc.'s website under a settlement reached Tuesday with the National Federation of the . The council, a nonprofit that administers the Law School Admission Test and processes law school applicants' academic credentials, will provide full access for the to its website by Sept. 1. The site will allow use of screen access technology, which converts words on the computer screen into synthesized speech or Braille.
...The University of Michigan Law School (Law School), one of the Nation's top law schools,, follows an official admissions policy that seeks to achieve student body diversit... point average (GPA) and Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score. Additionally, officials must look be...
This article presents a more comprehensive analysis of the impact of the American Bar Association's (ABA) current accreditation practices on schools that admit students with lower Law School Admission Test scores. To date, the Council of the Section of Legal Education has avoided or ignored repeated requests from members of the NBA's Law Professors Division to begin the transition process by permitting access to the data the Council currently controls for the purpose of conducting an independent and comprehensive study of the Council's accreditation practices. The Council's avoidance of these requests is to some extent understandable given that it is being asked to examine its own conduct on a sensitive issue that it believes is actually one of its strengths. But the objective facts dem...
The advent of the US News & World Report ranking of law schools has brought a great deal of "judging" to the world of legal education. The US News purported measure of quality leaves out the important value of diversity, as well as other important values. The purpose of this article is to focus on the emphasis on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score and its significant weight in the rankings. As noted, the median LSAT score accounts for 12.5% of a school's overall ranking. Legal educators have raised concerns about the impact on minority admissions and the fact that diversity is not measured in the rankings. The goal of ensuring a diverse profession must be attained by engaging a number of strategies. These include increasing outreach pipeline programs, ensuring a positive exp...
It brought out a lot of different emotions," said junior outfielder Shauntaine Harris, who said this year's team seemed destined for success. "The attitude this year was completely different," she explained. "In the past, everyone wasn't on the same page. We had drama. This year, it all clicked. We all were on the same page. Everybody wanted it, compared to the past years I've been here. That's what really made a difference. I believe our freshman class that came in this year really changed things around for us. "It was a very good choice," she said, "but I want to go back to California." "The competition in the Big East this year was so challenging," she said. "I feel lucky to have had this opportunity to experience it." A communications major, she's decided to attend law school, and...
... started studying for the Law School Admission Test. College softball has given her the competiti...
Kay Karen Kennedy said her most significant personal accomplishment for the past 40 years was to not say, or even think, that anything is impossible. If the naysayers had prevailed, she would never have been brave enough to graduate from Oklahoma City University in three years, take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), enroll in law school when less than 5 percent of the school enrollment included women, accept a position with the first faculty at Heritage Hall Schools, serve in state government or later run for the Oklahoma House of Representatives, though unsuccessful.
WASHINGTON, June 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Justice Department today announced a consent agreement with Robin Singh Educational Services, Inc., d/b/a/ TestMasters, one of the nation's largest providers of preparatory courses for the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) and other admission exams. The agreement calls for TestMasters to provide sign language interpreters and other auxiliary aids to students who need them as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We commend TestMasters for taking steps to ensure that people who are deaf or hard of hearing have the same opportunity as others to gain admission to colleges and graduate schools," said Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.
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