You might notice an across-the-board increase in the median LSAT scores for entering law school classes that the LSAC reports next year.
Don’t worry — it’s not because law school applicants are getting smarter, or that the admissions bar has been raised. It’s because the ABA changed its LSAT score reporting guidelines.
Until this year, the ABA asked law schools to submit averaged LSAT scores for students who had taken the test more than once. Beginning this fall, however, schools will be asked to report only the highest of multiple LSAT scores. That change will make it look like the median score of incoming law classes has increased, although in reality nothing will have changed.
The ABA’s policy change will not affect law school admissions. Most schools will continue to average the test scores of applicants who have taken the LSAT more than once. Only a handful of schools, like Stanford and Berkeley, have a policy of looking at only the highest of multiple test scores.
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