ABA Legal Ed council extends test-optional admissions variance
Law schools can take three more years to determine whether they want to admit students without taking an admissions test. (Photo by John O’Brien/ABA Journal)
Law schools can take three more years to determine whether they want to admit students without taking an admissions test.
The council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted at its quarterly meeting in Chicago on Friday to extend the deadline for applications requesting a variance from the standard requiring law schools to use a standardized test, like the Law School Admission Test or the Graduate Record Exam, as part of the admissions process.
The Standard 503 variance allows law schools to admit up to 100% of students who have not taken an admissions test, up from the prior rule, which allowed only up to 10%.
The deadline for the variance expired in July. An extension will allow more data to be collected on how students admitted without a standardized test score perform.
Twenty-one of the 198 ABA-accredited law schools have been granted the variance, but not all have admitted students without the test, José Roberto “Beto” Juárez Jr., the chair of the Standard 503 variance workgroup, said at the Friday meeting.
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