The LSAT and Intellectual Excellence

[DGS49]

ABA votes to end law schools' LSAT requirement, but not until 2025

The arm of the American Bar Association that accredits U.S. law schools on Friday voted to eliminate the longstanding requirement that schools use the Law School Admission Test or other standardized test when admitting students.

www.reuters.com

Law School Admission Council is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to advance law and justice by encouraging diverse, talented individuals to study law and by supporting their enrollment and learning journeys from pre-law through practice. They have continually worked to update the LSAT, make it more relevant and - believe it or not - RELIABLE. It is the best indication available of whether applicants have the intellectual wherewithal to succeed in law school, and in legal practice. There are no guarantees in life, and some very capable people do poorly in law school, while others with lesser capabilities excel. But the LSAT is the best indicator available.

We all know why there is a push to de-emphasize the LSAT: Blacks and Hispanics, as a group, do poorly on the LSAT, and if selective law schools emphasize LSAT scores in their admissions criteria, the aforesaid demographics will be largely excluded. But that does not prevent them from going to law school, not at all. there are hundreds of law schools out there, some of which will accept anyone who applies and has a credible transcript from college.

One can only hope that the State Bar Exams will not be furthered watered down, subjecting future clients to substandard representation.

Leftism. Don't ya just love it?

 

[johngaltshrugged]

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

ABA votes to end law schools' LSAT requirement, but not until 2025

The arm of the American Bar Association that accredits U.S. law schools on Friday voted to eliminate the longstanding requirement that schools use the Law School Admission Test or other standardized test when admitting students.

www.reuters.com

Law School Admission Council is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to advance law and justice by encouraging diverse, talented individuals to study law and by supporting their enrollment and learning journeys from pre-law through practice. They have continually worked to update the LSAT, make it more relevant and - believe it or not - RELIABLE. It is the best indication available of whether applicants have the intellectual wherewithal to succeed in law school, and in legal practice. There are no guarantees in life, and some very capable people do poorly in law school, while others with lesser capabilities excel. But the LSAT is the best indicator available.

We all know why there is a push to de-emphasize the LSAT: Blacks and Hispanics, as a group, do poorly on the LSAT, and if selective law schools emphasize LSAT scores in their admissions criteria, the aforesaid demographics will be largely excluded. But that does not prevent them from going to law school, not at all. there are hundreds of law schools out there, some of which will accept anyone who applies and has a credible transcript from college.

One can only hope that the State Bar Exams will not be furthered watered down, subjecting future clients to substandard representation.

Leftism. Don't ya just love it?

I don't think letting more idiots into law school can make things any worse.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

My law school did not require the LSAT. We did have a number of minority and immigrant students that just could not understand the subject matter. They did not get a diploma but a certificate of completion. They were not eligible to sit for the bar.

 

[DGS49]

RIGHT NOW, as far as I know, the Bar Exam is the only thing keeping dunderheads from the Bar. And it is eternally surprising how many dunderheads make it through.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

It is the best indication available of whether applicants have the intellectual wherewithal to succeed in law school, and in legal practice.

Can you provide some actual data to support this claim?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

That's disgusting. You reveal your lack of class.

You're the one dropping turds on film. It's too graphic to link but anyone can find you under the same screen name. Class, really, does your wife know, your students? Does the school know that your side job is scat porn?

 

[Leo123]

I passed the bar.......Then I went in the next bar and had a drink.

 

[Unkotare]

I've tutored a good number of students in the LSAT over the years. I've adapted a fair amount of material from LSAT prep to help students preparing for the SAT or GRE sharpen their reading, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills. A little modification needed is all.

 

[Unkotare]

A lot of the questions on the LSAT are interesting challenges of logic. I've had high school students who saw right through them, and college grads who were just flummoxed.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Stay on topic, sicko troll.

When looking for an LSAT tutor would you want a scat porn star?

Have teachers become such perverts that their profession is necessary less and less. The result is that tests like the LSAT are unreliable. Teachers are more interested in their chosen perversion than teaching.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Standardized tests are being abandoned. Can the students no longer pass or has teacher perversion just consumed the profession so that they are no longer capable of teaching. When a person purports to be a teacher, yet is a scat porn star, their capability, not to mention interest is called into question. Does such a pervert look at the children in his class and imagine how much he could make off of their scat pictures?

The result is a lack of interest in normal teaching and a concurrent lowering of test scores.