re: American Bar Association drops LSAT requirement for Law School admissions

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Lefties here: “Removing the test changes nothing! Why do you keep saying it will?!”

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I assume you're not talking to me, as I imagine I'm to the right of you on the majority of issues, but I'll help out my friends on the left

No one is saying that nothing is changing, because something is clearly changing: schools that don't care about LSAT scores no longer have to burden their applicants with forcing them to pay a few hundred bucks and burn a Saturday to take the test. If a law school is looking to increase diversity in admissions, whether socioeconomic or racial, then getting rid of requiring the LSAT makes sense within that paradigm.

But if that law school wants to remain accredited, it will need to be rigorous enough that its graduates pass the Bar at rates that won't made the ABA pissy. That's why I think this one change is a nothingburger. Now, if the ABA comes out later and says that it's no longer going to look at Bar passage rates to police accreditation, etc, etc, then those would be big changes. This just ain't one of them.