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Nov. 7, 2017

ABA panel backs ending admissions test mandate

The law school council will now seek comment on eliminating the testing requirement.

Law schools would not need to require applicants to have taken an admission test under a proposal supported by the American Bar Association’s legal education council.

The ABA council’s vote Friday to pursue elimination of the accreditation standard mandating that applicants take a “valid and reliable admission test” comes as a small number of schools have begun accepting Graduate Record Examination scores in lieu of LSAT results.

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