Test-At-Home Option During Coronavirus May Be Attractive To Applicants At 50+ Law Schools That Accept The GRE

With the cancellation of the March LSAT and the uncertain fate of the April LSAT, the GRE may be increasingly attractive for applicants to any of the fifty-plus ABA-accredited law schools that accept the GRE for admissions (Akron, American, Arizona, Baltimore, Boston University, Brooklyn, Buffalo, BYU, California-Western, Cardozo, Chicago, Chicago-Kent, Columbia, Cornell, Dayton, Florida International, Florida State, George Mason, Georgetown, Harvard, Hawaii, John Marshall (Chicago), Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Pace, Pennsylvania, Penn State-Dickinson, Penn State-University Park, Pepperdine, Seattle, Seton Hall, SMU, South Carolina, St. John's, Suffolk, Texas, Texas A&M, UC-Irvine, UC-Davis, UC-Hastings, UCLA, USC, Virginia, Wake Forest, Washington University, and Yale.  Two law schools (Georgia and UC-Berkeley) allow students enrolled in another graduate program to submit the GRE.)

ETS has announced:

To meet the needs of students who are unable to take the GRE^® General Test at a test center due to public health concerns, ETS is temporarily offering a GRE General Test at home option in selected areas. [As of March 23, 2020, the at home test is available in the United States, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Hong Kong (China) and Macau (China). The test is identical in content, format and on-screen experience to the GRE General Test taken at a test center. It is taken on your own computer at home and is monitored by a human proctor online through ProctorU^®.

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• Is Wake Forest Law School's Offer To Pay Students To Take The GRE A U.S. News Rankings Ploy? (Jan. 30, 2016)
• Christine Hurt (BYU), Could The GRE Replace The LSAT? (Feb. 6, 2016)
• Arizona Is First Law School To Admit Students Based On GRE Instead Of LSAT (Feb. 11, 2016)
• WSJ: Law Schools Replace LSAT With GRE To Goose Enrollment (Feb. 23, 2016)
• The First Two Law Schools to Drop the LSAT Could Be Just the Beginning (Feb. 25, 2016)
• The Empire Strikes Back: LSAC Threatens To Expel University Of Arizona Over Use Of GRE In Law School Admissions (May 1, 2016)
• 148 Deans Demand LSAC Rescind Threat To Expel University Of Arizona Over Use Of GRE In Law School Admissions (May 5, 2016)
• The Antitrust Implications Of LSAC's Threatened Expulsion Of University Of Arizona Over Use Of GRE In Law School Admissions (May 8, 2016)
• LSAC Backs Down (For Now) On Threat To Expel University Of Arizona For Use Of GRE In Law School Admissions (May 9, 2016)
• Poll: Majority Of Law Schools Are Not Racing To Follow Arizona In Replacing LSAT With GRE (June 6, 2016)
• Taylor: The GRE Is No Law School Diversity Tool (June 16, 2016)
• University Of Arizona Is 'Preying On Low-Information Prospective Law Students' (June 21, 2016)
• Rick Bales (Dean, Ohio Northern), 75% Of Law School Deans Support Arizona's Use Of GRE As Substitute For LSAT, Not Its Use Of 'Misleading Employment Stats' (June 23, 2016)
• The Empire Strikes Back, Part II: LSAC Stops Certifying Matriculant Admissions Data In Response To Law Schools' Use Of GRE (Aug. 4, 2016)
• LSAC Rescinds Threat (For One Year) To Stop Certifying Matriculant Admissions Data In Response To Law Schools' Use Of GRE (Sept. 25, 2016)
• Proposed ABA Accreditation Rule Sets Process To Determine Validity Of GRE, Other LSAT Alternatives In Law School Admissions (Feb. 15, 2017)
• Khan Academy Offers Free LSAT Prep; Is Free Bar Exam Prep Next? (Mar. 3, 2017)
• Harvard Is Second Law School To Admit 1Ls Based On GRE Rather Than LSAT (Mar. 9, 2017)
• NY Times, Will Dropping The LSAT Requirement Create More Miserable Lawyers? (Mar. 19, 2017)
• Bill Henderson (Indiana), U.S. News Eliminates The Rankings Advantage Of The GRE, But Harvard Has Started A 'Quant' Arms Race For Diverse Students Who Will Thrive In A Transformed, Tech-Driven, Disrupted Legal Profession (Apr. 11, 2017)
• LSAC Moves Toward Digital LSAT (Ten Years After MCAT), Says It Was Not Due To Growing Use Of GRE In Law School Admissions (Apr. 20, 2017)
• Harvard Law School, The GRE, And Moneyball (Apr. 26, 2017)
• Facing Competition From GRE, LSAC Allows Applicants To Take LSAT An Unlimited Number Of Times (May 20, 2017)
• Chicago Law Schools Consider Accepting GRE As Test Alternative To LSAT (May 31, 2017)
• Northwestern Is Third Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions, Finds It Is Just As Accurate As LSAT In Predicting 1L Grades (Aug. 7, 2017)
• Georgetown Is Fourth Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions, Finds It Is Just As Accurate As LSAT In Predicting 1L Grades; LSAC Disagrees, Says 'The Rest Of The Top 14 Will Go Like Lemmings Off The Cliff' (Aug. 8, 2017)
• The GRE Is Shaking Up Law School Admissions (Aug. 9, 2017)
• More On Using The GRE In Law School Admissions (Aug. 11, 2017)
• Do We Really Want To Make It Easier To Go To Law School? (Aug. 17, 2017)
• 25% Of Law Schools Plan To Accept The GRE (Sept. 19, 2017)
• Washington University Is Sixth Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions (Oct. 4, 2017)
• Columbia Is Seventh Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions (Oct. 17, 2017)
• Arizona Deans: It's Time To Rethink The Law School Entrance Exam Monopoly (Oct. 26, 2017)
• ETS Releases Study Establishing Validity Of GRE In Predicting Law School Success, Using Data On 1L Grades From 21 Law Schools (Nov. 1, 2017)
• ABA Council Clears The Way For All Law Schools To Admit Students Based On The GRE (Or To Ignore Admissions Tests Entirely) (Nov. 4, 2017)
• Texas A&M Is Ninth Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions (Nov. 16, 2017)
• Wake Forest Is Tenth Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions (Nov. 16, 2017)
• BYU Is Eleventh Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions (Nov. 21, 2017)
• Can The GRE Cure What Ails Law Schools? (Nov. 30, 2017)
• WSJ: Law Schools Say: Please Come, No LSAT Required (Dec. 6, 2017)
• Kent Syverud And Dan Rodriguez On The GRE/LSAT Debate (Dec. 13, 2017)
• Nick Allard And David Brennen Continue The GRE/LSAT Debate (Dec. 18, 2017)
• John Marshall Is Fifteenth Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions (Feb. 3, 2018)
• Two More Law Schools Admit 1Ls Based On GRE Rather Than LSAT (Feb. 25, 2018)
• George Washington Discontinues Use Of GRE In Admissions Because It Has Not Done A School-Specific Validation Study (Mar. 18, 2018)
• The Economist: Why Are Law Schools Accepting The GRE? (Apr. 5, 2018)
• NY Times: The Contentious GRE v. LSAT Debate (Apr. 6, 2018)
• Chicago-Kent Is 18th Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions (Apr. 8, 2018)
• ABA Considers Tossing LSAT Requirement, Disagreement Ensues (Apr. 10, 2018)
• No Consensus Among Pre-Law Students On Use Of The GRE In Law School Admissions (Apr. 13, 2018)
• ABA Committee Proposes Eliminating The LSAT Requirement For Law School Admissions (Apr. 17, 2018)
• Georgia To Accept GRE For Law Students Enrolled In A Dual-Degree Program (May 1, 2018)
• UCLA Is 18th Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions (May 24, 2018)
• Penn Is 1st Law School To Accept GMAT (19th To Accept GRE) (June 5, 2018)
• USC Is 20th Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions (June 16, 2018)
• Cornell Is Second Law School To Accept The GMAT And GRE (July 18, 2018)
• NYU Is 22nd Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions (July 21, 2018)
• American Is 23rd Law School To Accept GRE For Admissions (July 26, 2018)
• BU, George Mason, Massachusetts, And Virginia Are Latest Law Schools To Accept GRE For Admissions (Oct. 2, 2018)
• Chicago, Notre Dame, Pepperdine, Texas, And Suffolk Are Latest Law Schools To Accept GRE For Admissions (Nov. 2, 2018)
• 34 Law Schools Now Accept The GRE For Admissions (The Latest Are Buffalo, UC-Davis) (Dec. 20, 2018)
• 36 Law Schools Now Accept The GRE For Admissions (The Latest Are Dayton, South Carolina) (Feb. 22, 2019)
• 39 Law Schools Now Accept The GRE For Admissions (The Latest Are Florida International, New Hampshire, UC-Irvine) (May 14, 2019)
• 41 Law Schools Now Accept The GRE For Admissions (The Latest Are Seattle And Yale) (July 27, 2019)
• 44 Law Schools Now Accept The GRE For Admissions (The Latest Are Cal-Western, Penn State, And SMU) (Aug. 30, 2019)
• 46 Law Schools Accept The GRE For Admissions, And 5 Accept The GMAT (Sept. 12, 2019)
• 48 Law Schools Now Accept The GRE For Admissions (The Latest Are Montana, Penn State-Dickinson) (Oct. 3, 2019)

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