ABA Will Again Consider Making Law School Test Optional

The American Bar Association will again consider a request from its Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar to make law schools test optional.

The ABA House of Delegates rejected such a proposal this month.

But the council voted Friday to make the request a second time. Now the House of Delegates will return to the issue in August.

The council could move ahead with making law schools test optional even if the House of Delegates rejects the move a second time, because the Education Department recognizes the council, not the ABA, as an accreditor.