Law School Admission Council
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The Law School Admission Council is a nonprofit organization whose members are more than 200 law schools throughout the United States and Canada. Its headquarters are in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (about 15 miles north of Philadelphia).
Created by Educational Testing Service (ETS) in 1947[1], it was originally constituted of representatives from the University of Virginia, Harvard, Yale University, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania, who formed the Law School Admission Council to coordinate, facilitate, and enhance the law school admission process.
The Law School Admission Council is best known for administering the LSAT. It also operates a service called the Law School Data Assembly Service (often abbreviated LSDAS) which assembles information on a law school applicant's undergraduate and LSAT performance into a standard report.
[edit] References
- ^ Nairn, Allan; Ralph Nader (1980). "ETS: Barrier to the Bar". The Reign of ETS: The Corporation That Makes Up Minds. Ralph Nader (Privately Published). p. 220.
