耶鲁法学院招生重大变化：2019年秋季起将接受GRE成绩
在Above The Law（网站），我们一直在尽职尽责地跟踪法学院入学情况的变化。GRE逐渐蚕食了法学院入学考试对法学院的控制，越来越多的法学院允许申请人提供GRE成绩而不是法学院入学考试成绩。
采用GRE的法学院来自美国新闻与世界各个排名的高校，但当精英学校选择加入时，这一趋势肯定会得到推动。有鉴于此，耶鲁大学法学院最近决定，允许未来的学生提交GRE成绩，而不是参加LSAT（法学院入学）考试——从今年秋季2023届学生申请人开始——这一决定势必会在法律学界引起广泛关注。
耶鲁法学院招生办推特：
各位暑假愉快。这里有来自New Haven（耶鲁大学所在城市）的好消息！我们高兴地宣布，从这个秋季学期开始，在LSAT法学院赴学考试成绩之外，我们将接受GRE成绩。我们的申请入口将在10月1日开放，我们已经等不急想搜寻2023届新生了！
给那些在家跟踪最新消息的人们，目前接受GRE的法学院有：哈佛大学、哥伦比亚大学、圣约翰、布鲁克林、西北大学、亚利桑那州立大学、乔治城大学、夏威夷大学、圣路易斯华盛顿大学、维克森林大学、卡多佐法学院、德州农工大学、杨百翰大学、约翰马歇尔法学院、佛罗里达州立大学、佩斯大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校,、芝加哥肯特法学院、宾夕法尼亚大学、南加州大学、康奈尔大学、纽约州立大学水牛城分校法学院纽约大学、佛罗里达国际大学法律学院、宾州州立大学法学院，而芝加哥大学和佐治亚大学都允许双学位学生跳过LSAT考试。我们可能只会看到这种趋势继续下去。卡普兰考试培训公司(Kaplan Test Prep)的一项调查显示，25%的法学院计划接受GRE考试。
不过，尽管越来越多的法学院加入了GRE的行列，但负责法学院认证的机构美国律师协会(American Bar Association)还没有正式考虑在招生中使用LSAT以外的其他考试。美国律师协会(ABA)认证标准503目前规定，法学院必须进行入学考试，而且考试必须是“有效和可靠的”。(8月，ABA法律教育和律师资格录取部门正式撤回了提交给ABA众议院的一项决议，该决议要求删除标准503。)美国律师协会尚未正式宣布GRE考试是否符合这一标准。
（以下是英语原文）
Major Change For Yale Law School Admissions
Yale Law is getting on board with the GRE.
Here at Above the Law we’ve been dutifully tracking the changing landscape of law school admissions. The GRE has steadily encroached on the LSAT’s stranglehold on law school admissions, with more and more law schools affording applicants the choice of taking the GRE in lieu of the LSAT.
Law schools adopting the GRE come from all corners of the USNWR rankings, but the trend definitely gets a boost when elite schools opt in. On that note, Yale Law School’s recent decision to allow prospective students to submit their GRE scores instead of taking the LSAT — beginning in the fall with applications for the Class of 2023 — is bound to get a ton of attention in legal academia.
For those keeping track at home, the law schools that are currently accepting the GRE are: Harvard, Columbia, St. John’s, Brooklyn, Northwestern, Arizona, Georgetown, Hawaii, Washington University in St. Louis, Wake Forest, Cardozo School of Law, Texas A&M, BYU, John Marshall Law School, Florida State, Pace, UCLA, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Penn, USC, Cornell, Buffalo, NYU, Florida International University College of Law, and Penn State Law at University Park. (University of Chicago and University of Georgia both allow candidates in dual degree programs to skip the LSAT.) And we are likely to only see this trend continue. According to a survey by Kaplan Test Prep, a full 25 percent of law schools have plans to accept the GRE.
But even though more and more law schools are on board with the GRE, the body responsible for law school accreditation, the American Bar Association, hasn’t officially weighed in on using anything other than the LSAT in admissions. ABA accreditation Standard 503 currently mandates that law schools require admissions testing and that the test used be “valid and reliable.” (In August, the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar officially withdrew a resolution before the ABA House of Delegates that called for the removal of Standard 503.) Whether the GRE meets that standard, the ABA hasn’t officially said.