Kent Lollis, the executive director for initiatives at LSAC, which administers the LSAT, says the exam “is a high stakes test, and, because of that, it probably gets more weight in the admissions process than we recommend.”
Columbia’s Johnson says law school diversity will continue to suffer if schools take “shortcuts” in their admissions process by overrelying on LSAT scores, a practice he points out as contrary to ABA and LSAC policies.
“I would suggest that law schools get rid of these automatic cutoffs because they don’t consider the whole person and overrely on one test, which itself only claims to be a predictor for success in the first year of law school. But it has nothing to do with or doesn’t even claim to predict success as a lawyer, or test for qualities that actually determine success as a lawyer like perseverance and diligence,” he notes.
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