New Law School To Accept GRE
Another law school has followed suit in accepting the GRE.
The University of Akron School of Law is the latest program to begin accepting GRE scores for admission in lieu of the LSAT. The move makes Akron the first public law school in Ohio to accept the GRE, according to a press release.
“Until three years ago, law schools exclusively utilized the LSAT as the sole admission test to assess the capability of applicants to succeed in law school,” Christopher J. (C.J.) Peters, dean of Akron Law, says in a press release. “However, the American Bar Association allows the use of any admission test that is a valid and reliable predictor of success in law school.”
MAKING LAW EDUCATION MORE ACCESSIBLE
Many law schools have decided to open up admissions to the GRE in large part to reach a wider applicant base.
“Because many more students take the GRE than the LSAT, we believe use of the GRE will make legal education more accessible to students with a greater diversity of backgrounds,” Peters says. “Now, more students can consider law school along with other graduate programs without devoting extra time and resources to prepare for and take another test. Moreover, students can use a GRE score they received in the last five years when applying to Akron Law.”
Additionally, because the GRE tests areas such as math, law schools can reach students from STEM fields who wouldn’t traditionally take the LSAT.
Law Schools Accepting GRE
The University of Akron School of Law joins 46 other law schools in the US that have made the switch to the GRE.
See the latest list below:
- American University Washington College of Law
- Boston University School of Law
- Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School
- Brooklyn Law School
- California Western School of Law
- Chicago-Kent College of Law
- Columbia Law School
- Cornell Law School
- Florida International University College of Law
- Florida State University College of Law
- George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
- Georgetown University Law Center
- Harvard Law School
- John Marshall Law School
- Massachusetts School of Law at Andover
- New York University School of Law
- Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
- Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law
- Pennsylvania State University Dickinson Law
- Pennsylvania State University — Penn State Law
- Pepperdine School of Law
- Seattle University School of Law
- Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
- St. John’s University School of Law
- Suffolk University Law School
- Texas A&M University School of Law
- University of Akron School of Law
- University at Buffalo School of Law
- University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
- University of California, Davis, School of Law
- University of California, Irvine School of Law
- University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
- University of Chicago Law School
- University of Dayton School of Law
- University of Hawai’i at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law
- University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law
- University of New Hampshire School of Law
- University of Notre Dame Law School
- University of Pennsylvania Law School
- University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
- University of South Carolina School of Law
- University of Texas at Austin School of Law
- University of Virginia School of Law
- Wake Forest University School of Law
- Washington University School of Law
- Yale Law School
- Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Sources: University of Akron School of Law, Educational Testing Service
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