LSAT Controversy

From Reuters: Deans from more than half the nation’s law schools are working to salvage a longstanding rule that requires schools to use the Law School Admission Test or other standardized tests when admitting students.

Instead of letting law schools go fully test-optional as planned, the deans want the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar to modify the rule to enable schools to admit up to 25% of new students without a standardized test score.

The deans' proposal represents a compromise between the existing rule, which lets schools admit up to 10% of the class without such scores, and the ABA's plan to eliminate the standardized test requirement altogether by 2025 in a bid to give schools more flexibility in how they choose students.

The council of the ABA’s legal education section, which oversees law school accreditation standards, is slated to discuss the dean’s proposal when it meets on Friday in Chicago…

Full story at https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/with-lsat-poised-elimination-law-deans-call-compromise-2023-05-09/.

Among the signatories are the deans of the law schools at UC-Irvine and UC-Berkeley, as well as the UC College of Law (formerly UC-Hastings).

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PS: The governor's May Revise budget proposal will be released later this morning. We will provide an analysis as soon as possible. It was said at the recent "town hall" concerning the effects of the student-worker strike that the governor - while not willing to provide UC with more money to deal with the settlement costs - will provide what was proposed in January. However, it was an off-hand remark so we will have to wait and see what the actual proposal today will be.