How can law schools compare applicants who have submitted GRE scores with applicants who have submitted LSAT® exam scores?

Answer 1

I like the registered trademark symbol following LSAT®, but I am surprised you did not also include one after GRE®. In any case, to answer your question, law school admissions committees will almost certainly take interest in the percentile scores of applicants to assess their relative test-taking abilities. How the school might weigh a GRE® Quant score against a GRE® Verbal score, however, would be up to the school: perhaps the Verbal would be considered more important, perhaps not. Over half a million people a year take the GRE®, compared to about 100,000 to 150,000 who take the LSAT®, so there is a larger pool of test-takers against whom to measure performance on the more generalized test. It might be saying something, too, if a would-be lawyer could match the Quant scores of students who intended to pursue engineering, mathematics, or physics. Of course, it all depends on the specific school and the specific admissions committee, but I guarantee percentiles or their matching scores play into the equation. After all, schools want to put up big numbers to impress potential applicants. Which test that school happens to push, as it were, matters less than the image the numbers project.

Andrew

P.S. I used to work in a university president's office.