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		<title>A Running List of All Law Schools that Accept the GRE</title>
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<p><b><i></i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The number of law schools that accept the GRE in lieu of the LSAT has been rising steadily. After preliminary studies suggested that GRE scores might be as indicative as LSAT scores in predicting student performance in law school, the GRE has gained traction as an LSAT substitute. Many school officials hope that accepting GRE scores will make law school more accessible to a diverse group of students.</span><span id="more-7651"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To help you keep track of it all, we&#8217;re keeping a running list of all the law schools that accept the GRE. We’ll update the list as more schools change their policies. As of now, here are the law schools that accept the GRE (or have announced that they’ll soon accept the GRE):</span></p>
<p>Which law schools accept the GRE?</p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://law.arizona.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Harvard Law School</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.law.northwestern.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Northwestern Pritzker School of Law</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Georgetown University Law Center</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.law.hawaii.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://law.wustl.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Washington University in St. Louis School of Law</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://law.ucla.edu/admissions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The University of California at Los Angeles School of Law</a>*</li>
<li><a href="http://www.law.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia Law School</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.stjohns.edu/law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">St. John&#8217;s School of Law</a></li>
<li><a href="http://law.wfu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wake Forest University School of Law</a></li>
<li><a href="http://law.tamu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas A&#038;M University School of Law</a></li>
<li><a href="http://law.byu.edu/site/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham Young University Law School</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.brooklaw.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brooklyn Law School</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.law.gwu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Washington University Law School</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cardozo.yu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.jmls.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Marshall Law School</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.law.fsu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida State University College of Law</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.law.gmu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hbku.edu.qa/en/clpp/content/hbku-law-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamad Bin Khalifa University Law School</a></li>
<li><a href="https://law.pace.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law</a></li>
<li><a href="https://law.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UCLA Law</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.law.upenn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania Law School</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gould.usc.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USC Gould School of Law</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cornell Law School</a> (also accepting the GMAT)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.law.nyu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NYU School of Law</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago-Kent College of Law</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.law.buffalo.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University at Buffalo School of Law</a></li>
<li><a href="https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Penn State Law</a></li>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Since 1986, over 1,300 interns have gone through the SEO Law Diversity Fellowship program, which links talented, underrepresented incoming law students to elite global law firms. In this exclusive post, SEO Law explains how the Fellowship Program helps law students excel before, during, and after law school. You can apply here now! What Happens After [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><b><i>Since 1986, over 1,300 interns have gone through the SEO Law Diversity Fellowship program, which links talented, underrepresented incoming law students to elite global law firms. In this exclusive post, SEO Law explains how the Fellowship Program helps law students excel before, during, and after law school. You can </i></b><a href="http://www.seolaw.org/apply/apply-now/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b><i>apply here</i></b></a><b><i> now!</i></b></p>
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<h4><b>What Happens After You Get into Law School?</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aspiring law students know what it takes to gain acceptance to the school of their dreams: studying for and conquering the LSAT, crafting a strong personal statement, and crushing the interview. But what about preparing to succeed at law school and afterwards? What steps can you take before and during school to ensure you maximize your law school experience and secure a job in corporate law? These are critical questions. But, unfortunately, they can become an afterthought for incoming law students. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For over 30 years, the </span><a href="http://www.seolaw.org/program/fellowship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SEO Law Diversity Fellowship Program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has helped diverse incoming law students prepare for the academic rigors of law school and jumpstart their legal careers. Here are a few tips we’ve learned along the way.</span><span id="more-7887"></span></p>
<h4><b>Grades Matter</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For better or worse, grades matter in law school—especially if you are hoping to land a coveted position at a top corporate law firm. Not only is learning the subject matter like learning a new language, but since law school is graded on a curve, you must also outperform your peers in order to earn top marks. Consequently, incoming law students need to hit the ground running. Before you know it, you’ll be applying to 1L summer internships, so falling behind is not an option.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To prepare for 1L, SEO Law Fellows complete a free two-week intensive training program in New York City, including instruction from law professors and practitioners on reading legal opinions, briefing cases, legal writing, outlining, and writing law school exams. This allows Fellows to arrive on campus confident in their ability to excel. Additionally, SEO Law Fellows receive ongoing academic support </span><b><i>throughout their entire 1L year</i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to ensure that they have every opportunity to outperform their peers from the very beginning. For Donna Scaffidi, an SEO Law Diversity Fellowship alumna who is currently a 1L at the University of Michigan Law School, the additional academic support “was like having a private tutor who taught the material from a different perspective. It gave me an intimate virtual classroom environment to ask questions and work through concepts with the tutor and my colleagues (other SEO Law alumni).” </span></p>
<h4><b>Build and Leverage Your Network</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While grades are important, networking is also essential to launch your legal career. As you begin to think about law school, it is critical that you also start to strategically build your legal network. Success in the legal profession is highly dependent on your ability to develop and maintain relationships across a variety of industries and practice areas. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Networking can also be a terrific way to learn about different firms and opportunities available to students. As a law student, having a wealth of attorneys from different practice areas in your network can help you expand your knowledge and understanding of the various practice areas you can pursue after graduation. For Scaffidi, attending SEO Law-sponsored networking events allowed her to speak with practicing attorneys and continue developing her professional network before starting law school, which helped her “grow [her] understanding of practice areas that firms focus on and how that aligns with what [she] want[s] to do, as well as the culture at different firms.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With over 1,300 alumni, the SEO Law Diversity Fellowship Program provides ample opportunity for networking—Fellows have gone on to become successful lawyers, advocates, and leaders across all sectors of law, business, and politics. Notable alumni include:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Julian Castro, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Danielle Gray, Assistant to the President, Cabinet Secretary, and a Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nicole Isaacs, Head of U.S. Public Policy at LinkedIn</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brandon Etheridge, General Counsel of the Baltimore Ravens</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Imelme Umana, first Black female president of the Harvard Law Review</span></li>
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<h4><b>The Importance of Internships</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It might seem obvious, but it cannot be overstated: an internship is the key to securing a full-time associate position after graduation and jumpstarting your legal career. Particularly at top-tier corporate law firms, full-time associate hires are predominately selected from students who completed a 2L summer internship at that firm, known as a summer associateship. An internship at a top corporate law firm the summer before you even begin law school can help you develop tangible skills that will make you attractive to recruiters for 2L internships and can demonstrate that you already have the ability to thrive in a fast-paced setting. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of the SEO Law Diversity Fellowship Program, Fellows complete an 8-week paid internship at one of our </span><a href="http://www.seolaw.org/partners/our-partners/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">partner law firms</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> across the U.S. This is a great opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience and see how law firms truly operate as many of the firms fully integrate the SEO Law Fellows into their summer associate program. For Scaffidi, the internship also provided a chance to assess what type of law she wants to purse, to build up her contacts, and to get a jump start on classroom material. Throughout the internship, Scaffidi was able to develop a “grasp of big picture concepts that we are now learning in the classroom and see how they are applied in the corporate law setting, which has been really beneficial.”   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can apply to the </span><a href="http://www.seolaw.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SEO Law</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Diversity Fellowship Program </span><a href="http://www.seolaw.org/apply/apply-now/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The application deadline is </span><b>March 5, 2018</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, but we encourage prospective Fellows to apply soon! Select candidates will be invited to interview beginning in January 2018.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the SEO Law Team at </span><a href="mailto:seolaw@seo-usa.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">seolaw@seo-usa.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. ?</span></p>
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		<title>Harvard Law School Now Accepts the GRE for Admission</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 17:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>You read that right.  In a stunning move, Harvard Law School will now allow applicants to submit GRE (Graduate Record Examination) scores in lieu of LSAT (Law School Admission Test) scores for consideration for admission to its JD program. Starting in the fall of 2017, Harvard Law School&#8217;s GRE pilot program will aim to give [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You read that right. </span><span id="more-7153"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a stunning move, Harvard Law School will now allow applicants to submit GRE (Graduate Record Examination) scores in lieu of LSAT (Law School Admission Test) scores for consideration for admission to its JD program.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Starting in the fall of 2017, Harvard Law School&#8217;s GRE pilot program will aim to give wider access to legal education to students around the world.</span></p>
<h4><b>Harvard Law School says that they’re accepting the GRE in order to make the application process more accessible for students:</b></h4>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The GRE is offered year-round, whereas the LSAT is offered just four times per year, making it more easily accessible for students regardless of schedule.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many students take the GRE before they have fully settled on a graduate career path or school choice. By expanding eligibility to GRE test-takers, Harvard Law School claims to be alleviating the financial burden for GRE students to have to pay to take the LSAT as well, should they decide that law school is the right fit for them.</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our very own Matt Shinners, LSAT Program Manager, doesn’t think it’s that simple, though. See his thoughts in the Q&#038;A section below.</span></i></li>
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<h4><b>But there are upsides for Harvard, as well. Here&#8217;s how Harvard Law School stands to benefit from accepting the GRE:</b></h4>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nearly 600,000 students take the GRE every year. Many of those students would be competitive applicants to law school. Harvard now has access to a broader talent pool. This means better students and lower acceptance rates, which would positively factor into their rankings.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to Harvard, given the scientific and technological revolution and the promise that it holds for future prosperity, law schools are interested in recruiting students with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) backgrounds. Such students would typically take the GRE for graduate school admissions. Now, Harvard Law School can recruit them. </span></li>
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<h4><b>But isn&#8217;t the GRE very different from the LSAT? How can it be a comparable replacement?</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The answer to this question remains unclear. A Harvard Law School study designed in 2016 and completed early in 2017 examined an anonymous pool of GRE scores of current and former Harvard Law School students who took both the GRE and the LSAT. The goal of any admission test, as decreed by the American Bar Association (ABA) Standards for Legal Education, is to predict first-year academic performance in law school. According to Harvard, the results of the study suggested that the GRE is an equally accurate predictor as the LSAT of first-year grades for Harvard Law School students.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Matt Shinners isn’t entirely convinced by this study, though. Find out why in his Q&#038;A section below.</span></i></p>
<h4><b>Is the ABA cool with this?</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In May of 2016, The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law became the first law school to accept GRE scores in addition to LSAT scores for admissions consideration. In response, the LSAC threatened to expel the school from its membership, but the majority of the country&#8217;s law school deans co-signed a letter of support for Arizona Law, and </span><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/05/04/law-deans-unite-to-support-arizona-laws-gre-acceptance/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">forced the ABA to back down</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The ABA is currently reviewing its rules governing eligible tests for law school admissions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In response to this, HLS Dean Martha Minow said, “We look forward to working with the American Bar Association on finding the most effective ways to encourage the best students to enter the legal profession.”</span></p>
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<h4><b>What does Manhattan Prep think about all of this?</b></h4>
<p><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/matt-shinners/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Matt Shinners</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is an LSAT Instructor and head of the LSAT Program here at Manhattan Prep. He also is a Harvard Law School grad with a perfect LSAT score in his back pocket. Here are his initial responses to some of the key questions surrounding this situation:</span></p>
<h4><b>Are many law schools likely to follow Harvard&#8217;s lead in accepting the GRE?</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If Harvard Law School is doing it, then other schools are likely to follow suit.</span></p>
<h4><b>What impact will accepting the GRE have on applications to Harvard Law School?</b></h4>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s hard to say for sure. The two groups who will be affected by this decision are GRE test-takers who can now apply to law school, and aspiring law school students who might now be tempted to submit GRE scores rather than LSAT scores. Applications will likely go up, but it’s hard to predict if more students will be in the former or latter category (and only the former will result in more applicants).</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">That said, accepting GRE scores will still likely mean more people will apply to law school as well as to grad school because they can, and not because they&#8217;re particularly interested in a career in law; that&#8217;s not a great thing for the job market for lawyers, since lawyers are already in oversupply. Law school students should be dedicated to becoming lawyers, not merely considering it.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Harvard Law School is correct that this move will save some GRE students from the financial burden of having to prep for the LSAT, but, as a test prep company, we have insight into student prep strategies and behaviors; rather than just picking one of the tests, many students will now “shop around” by prepping for both tests to see which one they do better on. This will actually make the process more expensive for that group.</span></li>
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<h4><b>Will many Harvard Law School applicants skip the LSAT in favor of the GRE now?</b></h4>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Probably not. For the time being, there&#8217;s too much unknown for many students to feel comfortable taking only the GRE. Without knowing how law schools will analyze GRE scores, or what range they’re looking for, it’s a gamble to apply with one.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also, if they want to apply to any other law schools besides Harvard and Arizona, students will still opt for the LSAT, which most schools exclusively accept&#8230;at least for now. This may change going forward.</span></li>
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<h4><b>Is the GRE a proper substitute for the LSAT?</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We don’t have enough detail into the HLS study to be able to analyze it clearly, but if it’s true that the study only looked at students who were accepted based on traditional criteria and also happened to have taken the GRE, then the lack of a random sample would leave us with concerns about the study’s conclusions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The LSAT vs. GRE debate has only just begun, and we&#8217;ll be sure to stay on top of the story as it develops to bring you the latest news and analysis.</span></p>
<h4><b>Thoughts? Questions? Comment below!</b></h4>
<p><b>Source: </b><a href="https://today.law.harvard.edu/gre/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://today.law.harvard.edu/gre/</span></a></p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s the situation: The University of Arizona College of Law recently started accepting GRE scores in addition to LSAT scores from applicants for admission. Last week, <a href="//www.wsj.com/articles/arizona-law-faces-fight-over-lsat-policy-1462008600" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Wall Street Journal covered the move</a> and the LSAC&#8217;s subsequent threat to ban the school from membership. Then, just yesterday, <a href="//blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/05/04/law-deans-unite-to-support-arizona-laws-gre-acceptance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">news broke</a> that 148 deans of LSAC member law schools sent a letter to the LSAC&#8217;s president in support of Arizona Law. The issue has raised many pertinent questions about the merits of each test relative to the other as barometers for law school fitness. We wanted answers, so we turned to <a href="//www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/mary-richter/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Flsat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=Mary%20Richter%20Instructor%20Bio&#038;utm_campaign=LSAT%20Blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mary Richter</a>, LSAT (175) and GRE (166Q/168V) instructor and graduate of Yale Law School. Here&#8217;s what she had to say:<span id="more-6124"></span></p>
<h4><strong>What likely motivated the University of Arizona College of Law to accept the GRE in applications?</strong></h4>
<p>It sounds like they wanted to open the doors to a wider applicant pool in terms of diversity and dual degree candidates. I view this as an exciting development, because regardless of motive, I do see it doing just this—making it possible for more people to get into law programs than might have otherwise. It&#8217;s cool!</p>
<h4><strong>What kind of test, fundamentally, is the LSAT? What does it test?</strong></h4>
<p>The LSAT is, I would argue, above all else a logic test. It is difficult to do very well on it without understanding the fundamentals of logic, regardless of how strong you are as a reader. The good news is that logic not only can be learned, it can be learned fairly quickly, relatively speaking, by adults (unlike, say, a new language, which usually takes years to learn), and as a result, the test lends itself to study over the course of several months—4-8, on average. LSAT takers who are able to prepare, whether through courses or on their own, do better than students who have not learned formal logical reasoning skills.</p>
<h4><strong>What kind of test, fundamentally, is the GRE? What does it test?</strong></h4>
<p>The GRE tests verbal, math and writing skills. Compared to the LSAT, it&#8217;s much more rooted in what you have already learned in school—the math tops out at geometry and algebra, so no need to dig out your calculus books or wish you&#8217;d paid better attention in trig. The Verbal section of the GRE is less logic-based than the verbal aspects of the LSAT, but it does require a more robust vocabulary than you likely already possess. I would say learning GRE vocabulary is one of the most important and labor-intensive pieces of GRE Verbal study, whereas for the LSAT, students generally don&#8217;t have to study vocabulary at all unless they aren&#8217;t native English speakers.</p>
<h4><strong>What skills are required for success in law school? Which test, if any, would you say best measures those skills?</strong></h4>
<p>Law school demands strong critical reading skills—being able to comprehend, analyze, and critique what you read, and to do so efficiently. Both tests measure these skills, the LSAT just devotes more real estate to them, to the extent that over a third of the GRE tests strictly math skills. Math is more or less irrelevant to law school, which is why there are jokes about how lawyers can&#8217;t do math! Viewed this way, the GRE includes two hours&#8217; worth of reading and writing assessment compared to the LSAT&#8217;s three hours&#8217; worth of the same.</p>
<p>If law schools are willing to accept that as equally indicative of a candidate&#8217;s ability to succeed in law school, I think that&#8217;s great, but my assumption is that when a school like Arizona says that GRE performance is as good a predictor of law school success as LSAT performance, they&#8217;re including Quant scores, which means that math skills are being relied on as a proxy for critical thinking skills even though math itself hardly comes up in law school. (I did once have a law professor tell me that if I didn&#8217;t understand the present and future value of money I&#8217;d be a bad lawyer. But that&#8217;s a very specific piece of math knowledge and incidentally one that is not tested on the GRE!) I can see how there would be link between logical thinking skills and math skills, but as someone who found logic much easier to learn than math, I know that logic and math aren&#8217;t interchangeable. Some people are going to be better at one and some people are going to be better at the other. That opens up opportunities for people to decide to which test they are better suited!</p>
<h4><strong>What are the key differences between the LSAT and the GRE? </strong></h4>
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<li>There is no math on the LSAT.</li>
<li>For the LSAT, you won&#8217;t study vocabulary; for the GRE, you almost certainly will.</li>
<li>For the LSAT, you will study logic; for the GRE, you almost certainly won&#8217;t.</li>
<li>Your essays on the GRE are scored; your essay on the LSAT is not. (Your GRE essay score is separate from your overall numerical score for Verbal and Quant, however.)</li>
<li>The GRE is taken on a computer and is adaptive; the LSAT is taken on paper and is not.</li>
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<h4><strong>In your expert opinion, is the GRE a valid substitute for the LSAT in terms of law school admissions?</strong></h4>
<p>They&#8217;re such different tests! I don&#8217;t know! To overgeneralize (always fun to do), I think the GRE is, once you brush up on the math, easier and more predictable. I think the LSAT truly does measure logical thinking skills and in that way is a better direct match to what law school is really like, but it also, as I mentioned, rewards people who have the time and resources to prepare rigorously for it in a very, LSAT-specific way, usually with the guidance of a tutor or teacher, and with ample time to do a ton of practice. Not everyone has this luxury, and while the GRE <em>does </em>demand preparation—don&#8217;t get me wrong—I feel like I see fewer GRE students on the verge of a meltdown than LSAT students. It feels like a more manageable test to me.</p>
<h4><strong>Can you tell your readers a bit about your experience with both tests and the specific challenges related to preparing for each, as well as your law school experience?</strong></h4>
<p>I took the LSAT in 2005. I had started studying for it in the fall of 2004 preparing to take it in December 2004, but I wasn&#8217;t ready, so I postponed it until June, took a couple of months off from studying, and resumed studying in April or so. I found that that hiatus was helpful in that studying the second time around was easier. Soon after I took the test, I began tutoring/teaching it while applying to law school. I ended up taking another year off before going to Yale for law school. That whole time, I was teaching the LSAT. And after I graduated from law school and decided to leave law to write, I started teaching it again. It&#8217;s been a long one, my relationship with the ol&#8217; LSAT.</p>
<p>The GRE is newer to me. I took it in 2004 thinking I&#8217;d go to grad school and didn&#8217;t touch it again until 2015, when I decided to prepare for and take it in hope of teaching it at Manhattan Prep. The Quant section (math) was a struggle for me initially—it had been over a decade since I&#8217;d done math! I found that I loved it, though. It&#8217;s a <em>really</em> fun test to take and to teach, and I like that preparing for it has real-world benefits. Who doesn&#8217;t want a bigger vocabulary and decent math chops? <em><strong>?</strong></em></p>
<p><em>What are your thoughts? Feel free to chime in below! </em></p>
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<h3>Harvard Law professor: &#8220;Don&#8217;t baby law school applicants&#8221;</h3>
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<p>In response to the recent, controversial <em>New York Times</em> editorial entitled &#8220;<a href="//www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/opinion/sunday/the-law-school-debt-crisis.html?_r=0">The Law School Debt Crisis</a>,&#8221; Noah Feldman, Bloomberg View columnist and professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard Law School, wrote <a href="//www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-27/don-t-baby-law-school-applicants">this opinion</a> in which he argued against what he called the paternalistic idea that law schools should &#8220;save&#8221; naive, less-qualified college graduates from themselves. According to Feldman, educational institutions should provide opportunity to students on the margins in pursuit of their dreams; writes Feldman, &#8220;Not every law school needs to subscribe to the technocratic-elite belief that all its handpicked students are excellent and should therefore be guaranteed success.&#8221;</p>
<p>In response to Feldman&#8217;s opinion, Slate&#8217;s Jordan Weissmann published the not-so-subtly-titled &#8220;<a href="//www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/11/04/harvard_law_school_professor_defends_admitting_students_who_probably_won.html">Harvard Professor Explains Why It&#8217;s Totally OK for Law Schools to Suck Money Out of Unqualified Students</a>.&#8221; According to Weissmann, &#8220;Feldman is very much arguing against a straw man,&#8221; because &#8220;nobody&#8221; has suggested that law schools adopt a minimum LSAT score for admission, or that institutions should have a 100% bar passage rate, but merely that they refrain from keeping themselves in business by saddling &#8220;obviously incapable applicants&#8221; with $100,000 worth of debt and no job prospects.</p>
<h3>Who&#8217;s really at fault here?</h3>
<p>A little bit of everyone, probably. <a href="//www.americanbar.org/aba.html">The American Bar Association</a> should be more rigid in refusing accreditation to schools that do not give graduates satisfactory preparation to pass the Bar or practice law. Law schools need to work with the Bar to publish accurate passage rate information so that students can be fully informed on the quality of school in which they are enrolling; they also need to refrain from admitting students whose applications haven&#8217;t demonstrated any likelihood of succeeding academically. Financial institutions should be more rigorous in administering student loans to those who seem clearly unlikely to ever be able to pay them off. Finally, students need to be more thorough in researching the current legal job market and assessing their own academic abilities before making such a significant and impactful (for better or for worse) investment.</p>
<p>But who cares about what law professors, business reporters and test prep experts think? <em>It&#8217;s way more entertaining to hear from internet commenters.</em> Here are the most popular ones that Feldman&#8217;s piece received:</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-5548 aligncenter" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/11/bloomberg-comment-1---2015-11-06-1101.png" alt="Bloomberg_Comment_1_-_2015-11-06_1101" width="584" height="185" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/11/bloomberg-comment-1---2015-11-06-1101.png 584w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/11/bloomberg-comment-1---2015-11-06-1101-300x95.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px" /> <img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-5549 aligncenter" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/11/bloomberg-comment-2---2015-11-06-1103.png" alt="Bloomberg_Comment_2_-_2015-11-06_1103" width="604" height="166" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/11/bloomberg-comment-2---2015-11-06-1103.png 604w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/11/bloomberg-comment-2---2015-11-06-1103-300x82.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px" /> <img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-5550 aligncenter" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/11/bloomberg-comment-3---2015-11-06-1104.png" alt="Bloomberg_Comment_3_-_2015-11-06_1104" width="587" height="130" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/11/bloomberg-comment-3---2015-11-06-1104.png 587w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/11/bloomberg-comment-3---2015-11-06-1104-300x66.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px" /></p>
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<p>What are your thoughts on the law school debt issue? Comment below!</p>
<p>Where will it all end? <a href="//www.forbes.com/sites/stephendash/2015/11/03/how-law-schools-will-pull-out-of-death-spiral/">According to Forbes student loan expert Stephen Dash</a>, the implementation of <a href="//www.americanbar.org/dam/aba/administrative/legal_education_and_admissions_to_the_bar/council_reports_and_resolutions/march2014councilmeeting/2014_march_young_lawyers_division_report.authcheckdam.pdf">gainful employment rules</a> and simple market forces have already begun to correct the behaviors of law school applicants.</p>
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<h3>U.S. News issues erroneous surveys, potentially invalidates Law School Rankings results <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f44d.png" alt="👍" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></h3>
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<p>Each year, U.S. News sends ballots to law school faculty members to assemble its <a href="//grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings?int=a1d108" target="_blank">latest law school rankings</a>. In addition to the overall law school rankings, U.S. News publishes law specialty-specific rankings in a myriad of areas including clinical training, dispute resolution, environmental law, health care law, intellectual property law, international law, legal writing, tax law, and trial advocacy (okay, you can wake up now). The issue? The survey asked faculty members from every specialty area specifically about the quality of various &#8220;alternative dispute resolution&#8221; programs. We&#8217;re not sure how a tax law specialist&#8217;s opinion on dispute resolution programs comprises a credible tax law program ranking, but this could provide some insight into the arbitrariness of the &#8220;<a href="//grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/legal-writing-rankings?int=9d0608&#038;int=acf809" target="_blank">Legal Writing</a>&#8221; ranking, which is almost as bizarre as the fact that a specific ranking for such a fundamental aspect of every law school even exists at all. Read the full story <a href="//abovethelaw.com/2015/10/the-first-u-s-news-law-school-rankings-screw-up/" target="_blank">here</a>. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/2049.png" alt="⁉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<div style="width: 686px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="" src="//abovethelaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/US-News-Rankings-Screw-up-600x484.png" alt="US News Rankings Screw-up" width="676" height="545" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Credit: The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s &#8220;Above The Law&#8221; Blog</p></div>
<h3>Penn Law School to honor life cut tragically short</h3>
<p>Theodore Milton Selden graduated first in his class from the historically black <a href="//www.lincoln.edu/" target="_blank">Lincoln University</a> and summa cum laude from <a href="//dartmouth.edu/" target="_blank">Darmouth College</a>, where he gained entry into the <a href="https://www.pbk.org/web" target="_blank">Phi Beta Kappa</a> honor society, before becoming one of the first African American students to enroll at the <a href="https://www.law.upenn.edu/" target="_blank">University of Pennsylvania Law School</a>. Selden had completed his first year in the top half of his class before a tragic train accident took his life. Now, more than 90 years later, Penn Law has announced that it will dedicate a plaque in his honor to be unveiled in a ceremony in front of his family and his fraternity, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kappa_Alpha_Psi_chapters" target="_blank">Kappa Alpha Psi</a>, as well as official from Lincoln University. Read more about Selden and find out what his family had to say about this long-overdue honor <a href="//www.philly.com/philly/education/20151023_Penn_Law_honors__quot_What_Might_Have_Been_quot_.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<div style="width: 687px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="" src="//media.philly.com/images/600*400/milton-handout-1200.jpg" alt="Theodore Milton Selden" width="677" height="451" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Theodore Milton Selden | (credit: Philly.com)</p></div>
<h3>Northwestern Law School gets $100M gift, new name <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4b0.png" alt="💰" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4b0.png" alt="💰" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4b0.png" alt="💰" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></h3>
<p>Is Northwestern on your law school wish list? If you answered &#8220;yes&#8221; to that question, your list may need an edit: the 156-year-old law school will henceforth be known as the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Officials announced this week that <a href="//jb-pritzker.com/" target="_blank">J.B. Pritzker</a>, a venture capitalist worth an estimated $3.5 billion, and his wife, M.K. Pritzker, have donated $100 million to the Northwestern University School of Law. The donation, which is the single largest in school history, will be invested in scholarships, grants, and support for the college&#8217;s social justice, entrepreneurship and civil and human rights initiatives. For more detail on this generous &#8211; if only slightly ego-driven &#8211; gift, <a href="//www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-northwestern-law-school-gift-met-1022-20151022-story.html" target="_blank">click here</a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_5453" style="width: 686px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-5453" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-5453 " src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/northwestern-university.jpg" alt="Chicago, Illinois in the United States. Entrance to Northwestern University - School of Law." width="676" height="450" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/northwestern-university.jpg 849w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/northwestern-university-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px" /><p id="caption-attachment-5453" class="wp-caption-text">The Northwester *Pritzker* School of Law &#8211; get used to it.</p></div>
<h3>Tweets of the week: The &#8220;My LSAT score just dropped&#8221; Edition</h3>
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<p><strong>Way to make 99.94 percent of people feel terrible about themselves&#8230;<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">So, my LSAT score. 179. 99.94% percentile. Still in shock, but today I&#39;m freaking Elle Woods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <a href="https://t.co/xp2OkQiGz8">https://t.co/xp2OkQiGz8</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Ally (@thatlittlefly) <a href="https://twitter.com/thatlittlefly/status/657619769282199552">October 23, 2015</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>#LawSchoolCuddlez <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/2764.png" alt="❤" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
<p>https://twitter.com/msemilyhervert/status/657336762453200897</p>
<p><strong>#NotReady <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f631.png" alt="😱" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Your 2015 LSAT score is in.&quot;&#10;Nope. Nope. *throws phone*</p>
<p>&mdash; Amanda (@Manda_AllStars) <a href="https://twitter.com/Manda_AllStars/status/657600979039223808">October 23, 2015</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>Tears of joy or tears of sorrow? <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f62d.png" alt="😭" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Got my LSAT score&#8230; California&#39;s drought will be replenished with my tears</p>
<p>&mdash; lindsey (@lynzeexo) <a href="https://twitter.com/lynzeexo/status/657351261084225536">October 23, 2015</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>#SorryAboutThat <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f61f.png" alt="😟" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I was out shopping and got an email of my LSAT score. I went out to have a nice time and I&#39;m honestly feeling so attacked right now.</p>
<p>&mdash; Grace (@VivaLaCouture12) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivaLaCouture12/status/657353719072296960">October 23, 2015</a></p></blockquote>
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<h4><strong>Local woman narrowly averts disaster, becomes lawyer rather than librarian <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4da.png" alt="📚" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f631.png" alt="😱" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/27a1.png" alt="➡" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f605.png" alt="😅" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4bc.png" alt="💼" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></h4>
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<p>The Murfeesboro Post, the local newspaper of Rutherford County, which is in Tennessee (bear with us here), <a href="//www.murfreesboropost.com/remarkable-rutherford-woman-law-not-the-library-became-her-destiny-cms-43048" target="_blank">published a stirring profile</a> this week of one of Rutherford&#8217;s finest. Susan Emery McGannon had just graduated from Kenyon College with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in world religions, and, not unlike all small liberal arts college graduates with bachelor&#8217;s degrees in world religions, lacked gainful employment upon graduation. McGannon was considering applying to graduate school to study library science when her brother mercifully intervened: &#8220;Either I pay for you to take the LSAT, <em>or you&#8217;re not getting a birthday present at all</em>.&#8221; Left with no choice, Susan took the LSAT, &#8220;scored high,&#8221; and enrolled at <a href="//law.vanderbilt.edu/" target="_blank">Vanderbilt Law</a>. On November 1st, she&#8217;ll retire from her post as a Murfeesboro city attorney, which she held for 14 years. The lesson in all of this can be expressed in terms of a the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_sentence" target="_blank">conditional statement</a> (yes, you should know what that means. If you don&#8217;t, click the link.): Unless you want to become a librarian, take the LSAT.</p>
<div id="attachment_5411" style="width: 412px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-5411" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-5411" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/local-woma-282x300.jpg" alt="Close up portrait of a smiling senior woman outdoors" width="402" height="427" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/local-woma-282x300.jpg 282w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/local-woma.jpg 671w" sizes="(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px" /><p id="caption-attachment-5411" class="wp-caption-text">This is not Susan Emery McGannon.</p></div>
<p><em>**Disclaimer: Manhattan Prep has nothing against the noble profession of librarianism, and in fact has great respect and admiration for the work that librarians do. My grandma was a librarian, for goodness&#8217; sake!**<br />
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<h4><strong>Man admits passion for LSAT logic puzzle podcast, immediately loses interest of woman <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f483.png" alt="💃" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f3c3.png" alt="🏃" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></h4>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-5412 size-full" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/lonely-man.jpg" alt="" width="917" height="523" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/lonely-man.jpg 917w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/lonely-man-300x171.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px" /></p>
<p><a href="https://www.datingring.com/" target="_blank">Dating Ring</a>, a dating service startup that seeks to combine the convenience of online dating with the attention-to-detail of old-school match-making, held a launch party in Washington, D.C. recently. For whatever reason, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2015/10/15/the-dating-ring-launch-party/" target="_blank">the event&#8217;s attendants found an overwhelming amount of common ground in discussing their favorite podcasts</a>. The least popular eligible bachelor at the event confessed his undying lust for an unnamed LSAT logic puzzle podcast; his date could not be reached for comment.</p>
<h4><strong>Tweets of the Week: Future World Leaders Edition</strong> <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f393.png" alt="🎓" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4b0.png" alt="💰" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4b0.png" alt="💰" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4b0.png" alt="💰" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></h4>
<p><strong>#LawSchoolBeerBreakFOMO/Woman has happy dream that law school forgets about her on visit <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f37b.png" alt="🍻" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/_isabel_bailey">@_isabel_bailey</a> I literally had a dream last night that I toured the law school at UGA and they forgot me so I hung out with you. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f600.png" alt="😀" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p>&mdash; Emma إيما (@Amal0526) <a href="https://twitter.com/Amal0526/status/655101452357140480">October 16, 2015</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>Student&#8217;s law school study playlist displays emotional depth, complexity that should be expected of society&#8217;s future leaders <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f3a7.png" alt="🎧" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f3b5.png" alt="🎵" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/justinbieber">@justinbieber</a> I&#39;m so glad we&#39;re finally getting more music from you. You are in the top of my law school study playlist <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PreOrderPURPOSE?src=hash">#PreOrderPURPOSE</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Shawn (@NikaH92) <a href="https://twitter.com/NikaH92/status/655100667665731584">October 16, 2015</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>#FriendsKnow <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f46b.png" alt="👫" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
<p>https://twitter.com/CoreyAllenTate/status/655099589289185280</p>
<p><strong>Law student spends precious time, money wisely <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4b8.png" alt="💸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4b8.png" alt="💸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4b8.png" alt="💸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
<p>https://twitter.com/OJTheGoonman/status/655096477602021376</p>
<p><strong>Woman devises fool-proof backup plan if unsuccessful in law school <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f470.png" alt="👰" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f474.png" alt="👴" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">*if I fail law school* <a href="https://t.co/ksqgD9yL05">https://t.co/ksqgD9yL05</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Anne V. (@AnneBeleret) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnneBeleret/status/655093613072769024">October 16, 2015</a></p></blockquote>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>All things LSAT-and-law-school-related from the past week, for your niche media consumption delight. 🎓💼 Law school applications on the rise 📈 A recent survey determined that 88% of law school admissions officers at 120 law schools across the U.S. are predicting a rise in applications for the first time in years. One possible explanation for this optimism [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5373" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/blog-week-in-law-10-9-2015-banner.png" alt="Blog-Week-In-Law-10_9_2015-Banner" width="676" height="264" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/blog-week-in-law-10-9-2015-banner.png 676w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/blog-week-in-law-10-9-2015-banner-300x117.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px" />All things LSAT-and-law-school-related from the past week, for your niche media consumption delight. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f393.png" alt="🎓" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4bc.png" alt="💼" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></em></p>
<h4><strong>Law school applications on the rise <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4c8.png" alt="📈" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></h4>
<p><a href="//www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150922005433/en/Kaplan-Test-Prep-Survey-Majority-Law-Schools#.Vhfw4_lViko">A recent survey</a> determined that 88% of law school admissions officers at 120 law schools across the U.S. are predicting a rise in applications for the first time in years. One possible explanation for this optimism is that, due to <a href="//www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-08-20/are-lawyers-getting-dumber-">the relatively smaller number of top students</a> currently applying to law school, there has never been a less competitive time to get into a top program; if law school has been on your bucket list, now would be the time to pursue it.<span id="more-5354"></span></p>
<p><strong>Yes, this is real life. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f1fa-1f1f8.png" alt="🇺🇸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f3c8.png" alt="🏈" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
<p>Last week&#8217;s LSAT exam happened to coincide with a much anticipated football game between the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama. University Testing Services <a href="//www.redandblack.com/uganews/lsat-coincides-with-alabama-game-raises-concerns-for-test-takers/article_41ab7b5c-67b5-11e5-a0d3-9f278d9bc5eb.html">almost decided NOT to administer the test</a> due to the traffic, parking, and general commotion-related disturbances that the game would cause. <a href="//espn.go.com/college-football/game?gameId=400603879">92,746 people</a> were in attendance at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia on Saturday, October 3rd. An estimated 100 took the LSAT. <em>Think about that:</em> nearly 100,000 rabid fans cheered in delight as two teams of young men <a href="//www.cnn.com/2015/09/18/health/nfl-brain-study-cte/">ruined their brains forever</a>, while <em>one one-thousandth</em> of that number invested in their futures. It might be said that American values are like a hat whose brim provides weary eyes no respite from the sun &#8211; backwards. <a href="//www.rolltide.com/">Roll tide</a>!</p>
<p><a href="//iframesrc=//giphy.com/embed/PAZVXpBMAzzziwidth=480height=276frameBorder=0class=giphy-embedallowFullScreen/iframepahref=//giphy.com/gifs/lsu-tigers-alabama-crimson-tide-football-PAZVXpBMAzzziviaGIPHY/a/p"><iframe loading="lazy" class="giphy-embed" src="//giphy.com/embed/PAZVXpBMAzzzi" width="676" height="676" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></a></p>
<p><strong>Who would you save in a fire: your mother or your girlfriend? <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f525.png" alt="🔥" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f3e0.png" alt="🏠" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
<p>This disturbingly macabre question <a href="//www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-34377611">was actually given</a> to hundreds of Chinese test-takers aspiring to be future lawyers on this year&#8217;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Judicial_Exam">National Judicial Exam</a> (side note: Why &#8220;girlfriend&#8221;? Either only people who date women take this test, or China&#8217;s Ministry of Justice is shockingly tactless). The question was categorized under the test&#8217;s &#8220;crimes of omission&#8221; section, which included a series of other tragic scenarios, such as failing to save a drowning child and allowing a friend to drink poisoned coffee. <em>Yikes</em>. The right answer? According to China&#8217;s Ministry of Justice, duty to one&#8217;s family should take precedence over romantic love, rendering those who would save their girlfriends guilty of a &#8220;crime of non-action.&#8221; It&#8217;s been rumored that those whose souls were too tormented by the quandary committed a different kind of crime of non-action by leaving their answer blank. Who would you save? Comment below!</p>
<div style="width: 686px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/10/burning-house.jpg" alt="Burning House" width="676" height="543" /><p class="wp-caption-text">If this is the house they were in, it&#8217;s almost certainly too late to save either of them.</p></div>
<p><strong>Blind man to sue American Bar Association over minimum LSAT score requirement <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f453.png" alt="👓" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4bc.png" alt="💼" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
<p>These things are true:</p>
<p>1. The American Bar Association requires that law schools accept only students with a 140 or higher LSAT score.<br />
2. The LSAT requires test-takers to use pictures and diagrams in order to answer many of the exam&#8217;s questions.</p>
<p>If your logic skills are on-point, you should be able to use the above premises to draw the conclusion that it&#8217;s almost impossible for blind people to attend law school.</p>
<p>Angelo Binno is blind. He&#8217;s learned three languages, graduated college in three years, begun a career in homeland security, and took the LSAT recently. He got a 136 &#8211; 4 points below the minimum 140 score required for law school acceptance. Now, <a href="//www.wxyz.com/news/region/wayne-county/blind-man-to-sue-american-bar-association-over-law-school-admission-test-he-calls-discriminatory">he&#8217;s suing the American Bar Assocation</a>.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re sorry; we were under the impression that the <a href="//www.dol.gov/dol/topic/disability/ada.htm">Americans with Disabilities Act</a> was actually a thing. Let&#8217;s hope this case is a layup for Angelo.</p>
<p><strong>Tweets of the week</strong></p>
<p><strong>#BadReasonsForGoingToLawSchool <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f636.png" alt="😶" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;I only went to law school because I couldn&#39;t think of anything else to&#8211;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/VTrZEwGQSv">pic.twitter.com/VTrZEwGQSv</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Judge Texas (@judge_texas) <a href="https://twitter.com/judge_texas/status/649640809118040065">October 1, 2015</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>#LawSchoolLolz <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4da.png" alt="📚" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f602.png" alt="😂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Law school teaches you that anything that can be said in a few words will likely be told over several confusing pages of reading.</p>
<p>&mdash; LawSchoolHumor (@LawSchoolHumor) <a href="https://twitter.com/LawSchoolHumor/status/652332757989781505">October 9, 2015</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>#Wut? <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/2049.png" alt="⁉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f610.png" alt="😐" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/2049.png" alt="⁉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The team <a href="https://twitter.com/Yale">@Yale</a> showed me this gnome of police brutality carved into the entrance of the law school. See it? <a href="http://t.co/JBWPJm2thU">pic.twitter.com/JBWPJm2thU</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Shaun King (@ShaunKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/651181364281147393">October 5, 2015</a></p></blockquote>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>U.S. News &#038; World Report yesterday released the 2016 Best Graduate School rankings.  Like our friends at jdMission have reminded us, all rankings should be approached with skepticism and that “fit” (be it academic, personal or professional) is far more important. That said, here&#8217;s how the top 15 American law schools stack up this round: 1. YaleUniversity 2. Harvard University [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/lsat/blog/law-school-news-us-news-2016-law-school-rankings-released/">Law School News: US News 2016 Law School Rankings Released</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/lsat">LSAT</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4609" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/03/us-news-grad-schools.png" alt="US_News_Grad_Schools" width="266" height="243" />U.S. News &#038; World Report yesterday released the <a href="//grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools">2016 Best Graduate School</a> rankings.  Like our friends at <a href="jdmission.com%20" target="_blank">jdMission</a> have reminded us, all rankings should be approached with skepticism and that “fit” (be it academic, personal or professional) is far more important.</p>
<p>That said, here&#8217;s how the top 15 American law schools stack up this round:</p>
<p>1. YaleUniversity</p>
<p>2. Harvard University</p>
<p>3. Stanford University</p>
<p>4. Columbia University</p>
<p>4. University of Chicago</p>
<p>6. New York University</p>
<p>7. University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>8. Duke University<br />
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<p>8. University of California, Berkeley</p>
<p>8. University of Virginia</p>
<p>11. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Ross)</p>
<p>13. Northwestern University</p>
<p>13. Cornell University</p>
<p>14. Georgetown University</p>
<p>15. University of Texas, Austin</p>
<p>See the full list and check out the rankings by law programs and specialties, <a href="//grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools?int=a4d609" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Application season is well under way, and early decisions are starting to roll in. Before you know it, the New Year will be here and it’ll be time to finally choose a law school. I know, I know. It seems like just yesterday you were first cracking open that LSAT study guide, so young and [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-4544" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/12/legal-education.png" alt="Legal Education" width="375" height="375" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/12/legal-education.png 504w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/12/legal-education-150x150.png 150w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/lsat/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/12/legal-education-300x300.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px" />Application season is well under way, and early decisions are starting to roll in. Before you know it, the New Year will be here and it’ll be time to finally choose a law school.</p>
<p>I know, I know. It seems like just yesterday you were first cracking open that LSAT study guide, so young and naïve. Scared of what the future held; scared of what your score would be. And scared that you’d be rejected from every law school to which you applied.</p>
<p>However, a <a href="//dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/law-school-becomes-buyers-market-as-competition-for-best-students-increases/?_r=0">recent NYT article</a> points out exactly how misguided you might be—could law school really be a buyers’ market?</p>
<p><strong>SUMMARY</strong></p>
<p>Professor Rodriguez of Northwestern University School of Law says, &#8220;It&#8217;s insane,&#8221; and I agree. We do, however, disagree on what aspects of law school tuition are insane.</p>
<p>According to the article, the number of people taking the LSAT is down over 50% from 2009, and the incoming class of first-year law students is the lowest it&#8217;s been since the &#8217;70s. Law schools have reacted in a number of ways, including cutting employees, faculty, and even entire campuses (see Thomas M. Cooley Law School). And many now rely on their parent school to keep them afloat (a stark contrast to the previous decade where these schools were viewed as geese laying golden eggs).</p>
<p>As Professor Rodriguez points out, law schools are now battling over top students. In order to keep their GPA/LSAT numbers up, schools are pulling from an increasingly small pool of candidates with high scores. To do so, they&#8217;re negotiating until almost the first day of classes, increasing scholarship amounts to match or beat competing schools. &#8220;It&#8217;s insane,&#8221; he claims, to need to fight with these other schools for students.</p>
<p>I would rebut that it’s insane tuition at his school has increased $9,000/year during this same time period.</p>
<p><strong>THOUGHTS/ANALYSIS</strong></p>
<p>So is law school a buyers’ market, or is that a bit of editorial license taken by the writer?</p>
<p>Law school is a service, and the goal of that service is to get you a job as a lawyer. Because of the financial crisis, legal jobs are a lot scarcer (though they do still pay staggeringly large salaries). And despite fewer positions being available, the amount of work hasn’t decreased that much. This translates to even longer hours than pre-crisis (in other words, the jobs are even less pleasant).</p>
<p>I’m glad to see the article use the “nine months after graduation” metric to measure employment, as other numbers tend to be gamed by law schools who hire their grads to inflate their stats. It’s still important to recognize, however, that 57% doesn’t represent people working at Big Law, or even the public sector. A large percentage also ends up at smaller firms, earning nowhere near the $180K/year salaries most young lawyers dream of. The amount of work, though, is about the same.</p>
<p>So, in short, the “service” being provided by law schools is coming down in value. At the same time, their supply of new students is drastically dropping. And most numbers being reported suggest that the largest drop in applicants is coming from the top of the LSAT pool (see the decline in LSAT averages of even top schools). All in all, it is a good time to be.</p>
<p><strong>HOW TO USE</strong></p>
<p>Emily Trieber is exactly right—treat the relationship as a business contract.</p>
<p>When you first apply, the relationship is extremely asymmetric—you desperately want to be admitted, and they have all the power. However, after you’re admitted, the dynamic shifts. You’re their customer, and they’ve already told you they want your business. It’s hard to shift your view after spending so long hoping for any letter of admission, but it’s important to change your perspective so you graduate with as little debt as possible. And with a few other schools also interested in you as a customer, it’s time to negotiate.</p>
<p>It’s always best to get in touch with the school via phone (or in person, if you can make a visit). Be honest with them about your offers from other schools, but use those offers to leverage better terms from preferred schools. And always be willing to ask—no one has ever had their offer rescinded for politely requesting a lower tuition bill.</p>
<p>That’s really the key—treat the relationship as business one, which entails courtesy. The schools know that tuition is expensive and scholarship offers are on the rise. They also know that applicants are an increasingly rare commodity. Use this to your advantage and don’t accept sticker price as what you have to pay if you want to go to a particular law school. They’ve already told you they want you as a student; now, tell them that, in order to make that happen, they’re going to have to make you a better offer.</p>
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