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...school faculty, not any politician, university official or alumnus, makes all law admission decisions. This applicant was accepted because he worked his way through Haverford College, had a B average, a 652 LSAT score and an excellent work record since graduation. In fact, every one of our decisions is objective and reviewable by the public. Each is based on individual merit and is neither helped nor hurt by one's "political clout," race, religion, national origin, name, age, sex or station in life...
...nagging questions about the reliability of ETS's three-figure quantifications of people's "aptitude," over-worked, understaffed admissions boards and personnel managers continue to rely upon test scores for an easy, quick, "objective" standard. In some parts of the country, state law now sets specific SAT and LSAT cut-off scores for admission to state universities. In the 1971 Federal court case of Baker et al. v. Columbus (Miss.) Municipal Separate School District et al., the court established that the Columbus school authorities' use of the National Teacher Exam (an ETS test) cut-off score...
...year-old Harvard Ph.D. who received a perfect 800 score on the LSAT, said he does not believe the district court judge who dismissed the claim adequately considered Krohn's argument that Harvard is subject to laws ensuring fair hearings on all its decisions and an appeals process...
Because of the increase in cheating on LSAT's, the ETS now takes the thumbprint of everyone who takes the test. This procedure was adopted in 1973 after 117 scores were cancelled the year before. Formerly, a driver's license or similar photographic identification was all that was required to be admitted to the examination...
...before the use of thumbprints, these experts voted unanimously to void the LSAT score of Susan E. Johnson '71 who had taken the test three times, with scores...