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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 15, 2023

The American Bar Association (ABA) is pausing a plan to allow law schools to go fully test-optional for admissions by 2025, Reuters reports. The council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar had planned to resubmit the proposal to the ABA House of Delegates for consideration at its August meeting after the House rejected the proposal in February. Now, the council has decided to remove the agenda item from the August meeting in response to concerns from hundreds of law school deans and stakeholders. The pause will allow the council “to evaluate the concerns and determine what is best for law schools and applicants,” a spokesperson said. Reuters reported earlier that deans from more than half the nation’s law schools were backing a compromise that would allow them to admit up to 25% of students without a standardized test score — up from the current 10% allowance.