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...late October, the and LSAT registration rush is on at the "Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center" in Boston. It's a little more than a month away from the next exam, and students are crowded around the front desk, eagerly filling our forms and signing over $300 checks $50 refundable) without a flinch. School shirts and jackets reveal a cross-section of Harvard, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern, and Wellesley students who have made the pilgrimage to the spanking new Kaplan center on the ninth floor of the Park Square Building...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Horatio Alger, With Chutzpah | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Kaplan was graduating magna cum laude from CCNY in 1939 before earning his master's in education the following year. Before long, his high school tutees had become college students worried about a new test--the LSAT's--and Kaplan began tutoring privately for that test...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Horatio Alger, With Chutzpah | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

SEASON: 16-11 (.593, which if it were an LSAT score, wouldn't even get me into Klutztown State Law School...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Not a 'Dear John' Letter | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...school may be out of the question anyway, if my LSAT score is anywhere near my predicting percentage for this year. In any event, here are this week's picks...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Not a 'Dear John' Letter | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

Joseph Savage '78, who was not admitted to Harvard Law School after having been placed in the hold category, says he does not believe the LSATs played a major role in his rejection. "The people Harvard rejected from the hold category weren't the ones who got screwed. The people who were rejected early on, before the Law School knew about the error--they're the ones who got screwed," Savage says. He adds, "Standardized testing ought to be reviewed in general, I think, not only in the light of the LSAT screwup, but the MCATs...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Facing the Test: Grad School as Statistical Uncertainty | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

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