Changes to Law School Admissions Requirements Signal Broader Shift for Higher Education

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A few years ago, the American Bar Association’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar proposed to do away with Standard 503—a long-standing policy that mandated the use of a standardized admissions test for law school applicants. For decades, this standard required schools to use a “valid and reliable test” to determine admission eligibility.

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