Believe it or not, stuff actually happened this year, despite all of the 2020 Part 2 vibes. As 2021 ends and 2022 begins, Branden & Jelena look back at the past 13 months of LSAT and law school news, discussing one big story from each month.
January 2021: NCBE task force suggests big changes to future bar exams, including more use of scenarios, more digitization
February 2021: Columbia Law School students rebel, force changes after survey indicates 82% of students suffered heightened anxiety due to school's pandemic policies
Columbia Law Mental Health Update
March 2021: Stanford Law student's diploma withheld after he posted a flyer mocking the law school's Federalist Society
April 2021: Mitchell-Hamline Dean proctors first two LSATs administered within prisons
June 2021: No more remote bar exams after July 2021, National Conference of Bar Examiners says
August 2021: Applications surge leads to most diverse incoming law school class in history, as well as higher LSAT medians
October 2021: LSAT-Flex online platform crashes during October test administration, preventing some test-takers from completing their exams
November 2021: ABA announces that the GRE is within its compliance standards for law school admissions