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Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House and decided he was 'gonna invent a career'—he founded Reddit

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

Millionaire Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House and decided he was ‘gonna invent a career'—he founded Reddit

Millionaire Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House and decided he was ‘gonna invent a career'—he founded Reddit

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

The LSAT Is Not What It Used to Be

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

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LSAT to Drop the "Logic Games" Section

New Law School "Mismatch" Data from UCLA Lawprof Richard Sander

Not surprisingly, low LSAT scores are strongly correlated with low bar passage rates.

US News Makes Beneficial Changes to its Law School Rankings System

Downgrading reputational surveys and abolishing points for per-student expenditures are steps in the right direction.

Commentary: The legal profession lacks diversity, and the LSAT makes matters worse

Law schools are the gateways to a legal profession that lacks diversity by race, ethnicity, gender, disability and more. An important step to creating a more diverse legal profession is to change law schools’ admission policies.

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USC Lawprof Michael Simkovic Defends the LSAT

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…

UCLA Law Dean Russell Korobkin on the LSAT

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…

Stephen Carter Makes the Case for Barring the Bar Exam

Stephen Carter Makes the Case for Barring the Bar Exam

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.

"In Defense of the LSAT"

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…

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