Arizona Law’s Embrace of GRE Draws Ire of LSAT-Maker
2nd May 2016
University of Arizona College of Law’s decision to make the Law School Admission Test optional has put the school at odds with the powerful national nonprofit group that administers the exam and controls much of the law-school application process nationwide.
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the bureaucratic state is that it is not enough to be qualified to perform a certain function, one must have the correct credentials from the correct credentialing agency in order to be allowed to perform that function.
Last month, LSAC’s general counsel notified Arizona Law that the school’s new policy may violate its bylaws, which require that “substantially all of” a law school’s applicants take the LSAT.
The letter said the group is considering expelling Arizona Law from its membership, which would effectively cut off the school’s access to a crucial student admissions pipeline. The question of Arizona Law’s membership will be taken up at an LSAC board of trustees scheduled this week, the letter said. The board is made up of mostly law school deans and law professors.
Typically the Crust enforces such gateways by law or, when an appropriated law can’t be purchased, a set of semi-legal hoops to jump through that have the same effect. This ensures that all of the relevant apparatchiks are the Right Sort of People.