Students taking test, test takers

Aspiring Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University students applying for the fall 2018 class will be allowed to submit scores from either the Graduate Record Exam or the Law School Admission Test, the school said today.

The announcement follows decisions last year by Columbia Law School, St. John's University School of Law, Brooklyn Law School and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law to do the same. The policy change at Pace is on a trial basis.

“Since our founding, Pace Law has welcomed a strong, diverse group of applicants and students to the law school,” said Dean David Yassky. “I am proud that the faculty's decision to allow GRE scores in addition to the LSAT continues our long-standing tradition of removing barriers to students pursuing juris doctor degrees.”

“While we expect that most applicants will still submit LSAT scores, there are some who have already taken the GRE or for whom the GRE is more accessible. We look forward to reviewing their applications,” added associate dean of faculty development and strategic planning Emily Gold Waldman.

Nationwide, the GRE is gaining increasing acceptance as another means of evaluating law school applicants.