A bicyclist walks by Langdell Hall, the HarvardLaw Library, on the campus of the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., in 2005. (Charles Krupa/AP)
For 70 years, the LSAT has been a rite of passage to legal education, a test designed to gauge students’ ability to learn the law.
But its dominance could change. Beginning this fall, Harvard Law School will allow applicants to submit their scores from either the Graduate Record Examination or the Law School Admissions Test.
The dramatic change in admissions, a pilot program at Harvard, is part of a broader strategy at the school to expand access. Because many students consider graduate school as well as law school, and because the GRE is offered often and in many places around the world, the…