Harvard Law School just dropped the LSAT as an admissions requirement
The move is a major divergence from the norm in law school admissions, and is part of a larger strategy to expand access to legal education and to diminish the financial burden, according to Harvard.
"Harvard Law School is continually working to eliminate barriers as we search for the most talented candidates for law and leadership," HLS Dean Martha Minow said. "For many students, preparing for and taking both the GRE and the LSAT is unaffordable. All students benefit when we can diversify our community in terms of academic background, country of origin, and financial circumstances."
Other law schools have recently made similar decisions. Last year, the University of Arizona School of Law became the first school to allow students to replace LSAT scores with those from the GRE, and two others have since followed.
But much of the discussion that followed the previous decisions centered on dropping the LSAT requirement as a strategy to buoy sagging student enrollments at law schools.
Harvard, arguably the most prominent law school name alongside Yale Law School, has been fairly immune to declining application numbers that's common elsewhere.
Its pilot program to drop the LSAT requirement instead seems to follow similar changes at the University meant to decrease some of the financial burden and provide more options during the application process, like conducting interviews remotely via computers and removing certain financial deposit requirements.
- Global stocks rally even as Sensex, Nifty fall sharply on Friday
- In second consecutive week of decline, forex kitty drops $2.28 bn to $640.33 bn
- SBI Life Q4 profit rises 4% to ₹811 crore
- IMD predicts severe heatwave conditions over East, South Peninsular India for next five days
- COVID lockdown-related school disruptions will continue to worsen students’ exam results into the 2030s: study
- JNK India IPO allotment date
- JioCinema New Plans
- Realme Narzo 70 Launched
- Apple Let Loose event
- Elon Musk Apology
- RIL cash flows
- Charlie Munger
- Feedbank IPO allotment
- Tata IPO allotment
- Most generous retirement plans
- Broadcom lays off
- Cibil Score vs Cibil Report
- Birla and Bajaj in top Richest
- Nestle Sept 2023 report
- India Equity Market