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Admissions
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Hague Law Blog
Admissionsgate… if it involved Oxbridge or the Sorbonne
By Aaron Lukken
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PrawfsBlawg
Admissions …
Main Tuesday, March 19, 2019Admissions ...As profs, and especially as prawfs, teaching graduate students, we are rarely involved in college admissions. And yet...we probably should be more knowledgeable and offer…
The Faculty Lounge
The 2018-19 Bottom Ten Law Schools
The 2018 ABA 509 Required Disclosures are hot off the press and I couldn’t wait to delve into the numbers and see who has been naughty and who has been…
The Faculty Lounge
Why Florida Coastal’s Lawsuit Against the ABA Should Go Forward
Earlier this fall, the ABA filed a motion for summary judgment, seeking a dismissal of the lawsuit filed by Florida Coastal and its parent company, InfiLaw. Yesterday, Florida Coastal School…
The Faculty Lounge
LSAT Cutoffs in Law School Admissions
North Carolina Central University recently announced that, as part of its response to the ABA's notice that it was out of compliance with ABA Standard 501 on Admissions, the school…
The Faculty Lounge
The Problem with Standard 501(b): Cooley Law School’s Challenge to the ABA and a Proposal for Reform
For some time, I have been arguing that many bottom-tier law schools have been violating Standard 501(b)’s mandate to admit only students who “appear capable of satisfactorily completing its program…
The Legal Whiteboard
The GRE and the Revised US News Ranking Methodology
When I initially learned that Harvard Law would start accepting the GRE as an alternative to the LSAT, I viewed it through the prism of the US News & World…
The Right Coast
Harvard Law to accept GRE scores for admission – The Boston Globe
Harvard Law School announced Wednesday that it will allow applicants to submit the Graduate Record Examination in place of the Law School Admissions Tests traditionally used to evaluate candidates for…
The Legal Whiteboard
Unfortunately, Harvard Law’s GRE is not a game-changer — and here is why
I initially thought that Harvard Law's willingness to admit students based on GRE scores would reverse legal education's over-reliance on the LSAT. Unfortunately, the good news lasted for less than…
The Legal Whiteboard
Revisiting the Market for Transfer Students Based upon the 2016 Standard 509 Reports
By Jerry Organ
This blog posting updates my blog postings of December 2014 and December 2015 regarding what we know about the transfer market. With the release of the 2016 Standard 509 Reports,…