What's Wrong with the LSAT? + What is JD-Next? with Craig Boise & Dan Rodriguez

In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, two experienced and respected law school Deans-Craig Boise, Dean of Syracuse University College of Law, and Daniel Rodriguez, former Dean of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law-discuss the history, the present, and the future of law school admissions and legal education. Their conversation covers a range of topics, including problems with the LSAT, the recent test-optional proposal to the ABA, the impacts that the U.S. News law school rankings have had on legal education (and their thoughts on the new methodology changes), and a new pathway to law school admissions, JD-Next.
You can find basic information on JD-Next, as well as a list of schools that have been granted variances to accept JD-Next in lieu of another admissions test (LSAT or GRE), here: www.spiveycons...
Craig Boise is the Dean of Syracuse University College of Law, where he is currently completing his final year in that role, after which he will be working with colleges, universities, and law schools as a part of Spivey Consulting Group. He is a Member of the Council of the ABA Section on Legal Education, previously served on the ABA’s Standards Review Committee and the Steering Committee of the AALS’s Deans’ Forum, and served as Dean of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He holds a JD from the University of Chicago Law School and an LLM in Tax from NYU School of Law.
Daniel Rodriguez is a current professor and former Dean of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He served as President of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 2014 and served as Dean of the University of San Diego School of Law from 1998 to 2005. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School.
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[@amitabhstatton3236]

LSAT requirement should be almost for every law school student. If you can't score well on the LSAT, then how will you pass the state bar exam? The test isn't biased against applicants-- people just don't study hard enough or study properly. If you can't score well on the LSAT, then you shouldn't be a lawyer. The stakes are too high in this profession.

[@Almeda-p1t]

I am so glad that finally the playing-field is being leveled with the JD Next. For too long, gifted people of color, who worked hard, from grammar school to undergrad, were denied admission to law school, because of a low LSAT score- even with a high GPA. After 16 years of "studying hard", a single score on one test could completely disregard those efforts. Amazing! In the meantime, those who barely kept their heads above water all their 16 years, could get admitted with a high LSAT score, but a low GPA. What's worse, all over the internet, these same underachieving people, would declare themselves intellectually superior based on their LSAT score, to people of color with a proven history of academic excellence. Thank God there is something to shut the racist mouths of these people now. Scoring high on the LSAT has nothing to do with how well one will do in law school or how good a lawyer you'll be. If you believe otherwise, you're probably one of those people that I'm talking about.

[@amitabhstatton3236]

@@Almeda-p1t blah blah blah and more blah.

[@amitabhstatton3236]

Blah blah blah

[@amifunnymynameisbob]

"bias against minority applicants" lmao, this is the same for literally every standardized test, not unique to lsat

[@angadbhullar33]

Doing something to help will do more than doing nothing.

[@amifunnymynameisbob]

absolutely not true