The Latest Breaking News from LSAT

Reddit, now worth more than $40 billion, would have never happened without Alexis Ohanian ditching law school in favor of entrepreneurship.

Derek Muller explores recent changes in the test, how it is administered, and how it affects US News rankings.

Simkovic, over at Leiter's Law School Reports, defends the LSAT from those who would eliminate it in an effort to enhance law school "diversity" (see the original for hyperlinks supporting various assertions): If standardized test scores were removed from the rankings, or their weight reduced, law schools probably would spend…

From a New York Times article yesterday: "The LSAT has its problems, but it at least provides schools with a way to compare students who come from different undergraduate schools who pursue very different courses of study that are subject to different degrees of grade inflation," Mr. Korobkin said in…

The famous columnist and Yale Law School professor points out that the case made against other standardized tests, such as the LSAT, also applies to bar exams.

From Clayton Kozinski (Newsweek); seems quite right to me. An excerpt: [S]tudies have consistently shown that LSAT performance is the single strongest predictor of academic success in law school…. Criticisms of the LSAT largely echo criticisms of standardized tests more generally. Essentially, they boil down to the claim that the…