The University of Arizona Law School was the first law school to announce acceptance of the GRE in place of the LSAT® back in 2016. After piloting a program in 2017, Harvard Law School also began accepting the GRE for law school admission in 2018. Once the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted to allow law schools to accept applicants' scores from the GRE in lieu of the LSAT® in November of 2021, a larger number of law schools followed suit. The result? There are now 94 ABA-accredited law schools accepting the GRE, up from 26 law schools in May of 2019.
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LSAT | GRE | |
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Format | Remotely proctored exam; laptop with webcam and microphone required, set up in a private room. | Computer-adaptive |
Time | Approximately 3 hours, with one 10-minute intermission |
3 hours, 45 minutes |
Topics | Analytical Reasoning, Logical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, and the unscored variable section | Verbal, Quantitative (math), and Analytical Writing |
Date | Up to 10x per year | Almost any day of the year |
Fee | $215 (plus a $195 subscription to the Credential Assembly Service, which is required for application to most law schools | $220 (plus you may still need a CAS subscription) |
Accepted by | The vast majority of law schools in the United States |
94 law schools, see list above
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