{"id":131928,"date":"2025-08-25T08:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=131928"},"modified":"2025-08-25T08:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:11:05","slug":"aba-invites-more-law-schools-to-seek-variance-to-admit-students-without-a-test-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/25\/aba-invites-more-law-schools-to-seek-variance-to-admit-students-without-a-test-score\/","title":{"rendered":"ABA Invites More Law Schools to Seek Variance to Admit Students Without a Test Score"},"content":{"rendered":"

The vote comes after the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted in November<\/a> to accept variances to Standard 503, allowing schools to request the ability to admit up to 100% of its students without an admissions test\u2014a significant shift from the prior rule, which only allowed up to 10% of students to be admitted without a test.\"\"<\/p>\n

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The vote comes after the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted in November<\/a> to accept variances to Standard 503, allowing schools to request the ability to admit up to 100% of its students without an admissions test\u2014a significant shift from the prior rule, which only allowed up to 10% of students to be admitted without a test.\"\"<\/p>\n

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The vote comes after the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted in November to accept variances to Standard 503, allowing schools to request the ability to admit up to 100% of its students without an admissions test\u2014a significant shift from the prior rule, which only allowed up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/legal-news-D3G8HD.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131941,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131928\/revisions\/131941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}