The floodgates have opened up for a change that could undo a virtual monopoly on how undergrads get into law school.
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center announced Monday that they will accept GRE scores.
They join Harvard Law School and the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law in allowing applicants to submit either an LSAT or GRE score, and pundits expect more schools to follow suit. Administrators hope accepting the GRE will make law school more accessible to applicants, particularly those with science and technology backgrounds, and they say their own internal studies show the GRE is just as good as the LSAT in predicting success in law school.
But the rush to embrace the…
