Low GRE but decent LSAT

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• Confidence150 Alum Member

  August 2020 1417 karma

  Messaged you with some thoughts.
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  OneFortyDotSix Alum Member

  August 2020 634 karma

  LSAT matters way more; it's a better test of aptitude in and out of law school and will pretty much override your GRE score.

  Also low-mid 170s is more like 99th+ percentile - fantastic bloody work! ;-)
• VerdantZephyr Member ⭐

  August 2020 2054 karma

  Wait, some schools require both? My GRE is definitely out of date. I need to figure what schools those are and if I need to retake it fast. My GRE was also lower than my practice LSATs have been thus far. Low 90's percentiles if I recall versus mid to upper nineties LSAT and rising right now.
• yeahnice Core Member

  August 2020 123 karma

  @"tallent.randall" More than a requirement of both, if you tested GRE in the last 5 years, you have to submit those scores even if you have a LSAT score! (This isn't for all the schools but some of the T14s require it; the ones that i can think of right now is Penn and Harvard).
• VerdantZephyr Member ⭐

  August 2020 2054 karma

  Yeah, my GRE is about 7 years old, so if it is required I will need to retake. I am only looking at Duke, UVA, and Northwestern in the T14, I am assuming it will be a rarer requirement outside of that.
• yeahnice Core Member

  August 2020 123 karma

  @VerdantZephyr No GRE"s are actually required so you won't need to retake! And since your scores are older than 5 years, you won't need to submit them either.