Langdell Hall on the campus of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass. After a statistical study, the school’s officials elected to allow applicants to take either the Law School Admissions Test or the Graduate Record Examination. Photo: Brooks Kraft/Corbis/Getty ImagesHarvard Law School will allow applicants to take the Graduate Record Examination test as part of a pilot program that could potentially challenge the Law School Admissions Test’s longstanding, national dominance over law-school admissions. The law school announced Wednesday that applicants seeking to join its entering class of fall 2018 could take either the GRE or the LSAT. The association, which regulates law schools, is considering developing a more centralized process for assessing the reliability of non-LSAT standardized tests.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 08, 2017 23:26 UTC