Now
you
can
use
the
money
in
your
prep
course
fund
for
food!
Preparing
for
the
LSAT
is
a
rite
of
passage
for
most
lawyers.
And
while
they’ve
(thankfully)
gotten
rid
of
the
Logic
Games,
it
can
still
be
pretty
challenging.
But,
if
you
want
to
be
a
lawyer,
it
is
just
one
of
those
things
have
to
do.
Was,
rather.
Moving
forward,
there’s
going
to
be
a
little
more
wiggle
room.
Reuters
has
coverage:
The
ABA’s
Council
of
the
Section
of
Legal
Education
and
Admission
to
the
Bar
on
Friday
voted
to
create
a
new
variance
process
by
which
individual
law
schools
may
apply
for
permission
to
bypass
the
existing
admission
test
requirement
for
up
to
100%
of
their
incoming
classes
for
a
period
of
three
to
five
years.
The
prospect
of
incoming
students
bypassing
test
reqs
isn’t
unheard
of
—
current
ABA
standards
allow
for
up
to
a
10th
of
a
law
school’s
admitted
students
to
bypass
the
test
—
but
the
difference
in
scale
is
newsworthy.
The
LSAT
wasn’t
a
perfect
sieving
mechanism,
but
there
was
a
pretty
solid
sense
that
the
reason
a
4.0
GPA
student
didn’t
get
into
their
dream
school
had
something
to
do
with
their
LSAT
score.
If
the
bypass
were
to
be
implemented
on
a
larger
scale,
there’s
no
clear
answer
on
what
the
consequence
would
be.
That’s
also
part
of
the
point:
The
council
in
2022
proposed
removing
the
test
requirement
from
the
ABA’s
law
school
standards
on
the
grounds
that
it
constrains
law
schools
from
experimenting
and
that
no
other
accreditor
of
professional
degree
programs
requires
the
use
of
standardized
admission
tests,
even
though
many
professional
programs
such
as
medical
schools
opt
to
use
them.
The
application
process
may
not
ultimately
change
much.
Aspiring
doctors
still
submit
their
MCAT
scores
even
if
they
aren’t
technically
required.
The
strong
cultural
expectation
could
be
enough,
with
the
same
going
for
aspiring
lawyers
and
the
LSAT.
No
LSAT
To
Get
Into
Law
School?
ABA
Opens
Door
To
Bypass
Standardized
Test
[Reuters]
Earlier:
Looks
Like
Logic
Games
Really
Did
Gatekeep
The
LSAT
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
cannot
swim, a
published
author
on
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected] and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.