We're also starting to see some law schools not require the LSAT for admission. I know that Harvard, Northwestern, and Georgetown Universities are among those that have started accepting GRE or ACT scores.
From the article, I noticed an interesting parallel to medical school admissions:
> Testy told me she too once took the LSAT, though she doesn't remember her score. Unlike many of today's students, she didn't spend months studying. "Honestly, I didn't even know at the time people did that." She says LSAC actually worries test-takers spend too much time preparing. It suggests students familiarize themselves with the test and the rhythm of the questions and maybe take an online course.
I've had mentors say the same thing about the MCAT for medical school admissions, and even our USMLE board exams taken during medical school. It's almost as if it's a requirement for everyone to pay up for a service that just drills you until you can expect the kinds of questions that can come up, rather than actually being tested on conceptual knowledge.
Not ACT, just GRE. And Testy was actually recommending people prepare less than they do. (I think she’s wrong, incidently. If she had a $200,000 scholarship riding on the outcome, she’d prep)
The LSAT is entirely different from MCAT. It’s a skill based test. From what I saw the MCAT is more content based, and you can cram the knowledge, except for the reading section.
> It's almost as if it's a requirement for everyone to pay up for a service...
From the article: "(LSAC will launch a free one next year.)" So it's not about making them money. More importantly, it seems to me that if you could effectively separate "I'm not familiar with the test format" from "I'm not good at this", that would be very useful in terms of differentiating the strong candidates from the weaker ones. That doesn't seem too unreasonable. (I'm aware it's also not the same thing as intensive prep courses, which are what a lot of people (most?) take.)
From the article, I noticed an interesting parallel to medical school admissions:
> Testy told me she too once took the LSAT, though she doesn't remember her score. Unlike many of today's students, she didn't spend months studying. "Honestly, I didn't even know at the time people did that." She says LSAC actually worries test-takers spend too much time preparing. It suggests students familiarize themselves with the test and the rhythm of the questions and maybe take an online course.
I've had mentors say the same thing about the MCAT for medical school admissions, and even our USMLE board exams taken during medical school. It's almost as if it's a requirement for everyone to pay up for a service that just drills you until you can expect the kinds of questions that can come up, rather than actually being tested on conceptual knowledge.