Arizona Law Faces Fight Over LSAT Policy. School’s acceptance of GRE for applications draws ire of nonprofit group that administers law exam.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

A top-tier law school’s decision to make the Law School Admission Test optional has put it on a collision course with the powerful national nonprofit group that administers the exam and controls much of the law-school application process nationwide.

University of Arizona College of Law has started allowing applicants to take the Graduate Record Examination test in lieu of the LSAT, a move the school hopes will expand and diversify the pool of students considering enrolling.

Since 2010, in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the number of students applying to law schools has shrunk considerably and is only now starting to stabilize. Allowing the GRE, the thinking goes, could give a boost to applications; at least five times as many people took the GRE in the latest admissions cycle as the LSAT.

At least two other schools—University of Hawaii School of Law and Wake Forest University School of Law—have recently explored similar moves.

The legal establishment feels the competition.