--- description: Harvard Law School has said it will accept results from the GRE for the admission of students entering its 2018 class title: Harvard Law School: No LSAT? No Problem image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8fa2736d03393c9b/6988bdb2f887dc2be8e995f3/gettyimages-149977859.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Education](/tag/education/) ## Education Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # You Don't Need to Sit the LSAT to Get into Harvard Law School Anymore by [Ryan Kilpatrick](/author/ryan-kilpatrick/) ## Ryan Kilpatrick Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 9, 2017 8:32 AM CUT  The admissions office for Harvard University Law School stands in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. The admissions office for Harvard University Law School stands in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012.Bloomberg via Getty Images by [Ryan Kilpatrick](/author/ryan-kilpatrick/) ## Ryan Kilpatrick Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 9, 2017 8:32 AM CUT Harvard Law School has said it will accept results from the graduate record examination, or GRE, for students hoping to enter its fall 2018 class, as part of a new pilot scheme. School administrators have said that the move away from sole reliance on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is intended to diversify the range of applicants they receive, the New York _Times_ [reports](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/business/dealbook/harvard-law-will-accept-gre-scores.html?%5Fr=0 "undefined"). While the GRE is offered frequently in many locations worldwide, the LSAT is held only four times annually. Critics have argued that the test [often involves](https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/10/the-lsat-is-rigged-against-the-poor/504530/ "undefined") prohibitively expensive training that effectively bars many less privileged candidates. Around 150 law school deans have backed the change. Harvard is the second accredited law school in the United States to allow applicants to submit GRE scores rather than LSAT scores, after the University of Arizona College of Law first made the move last year. As one of America’s most prestigious law schools, Harvard’s decision may open the way for more widespread reform. \[[_NYT_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/business/dealbook/harvard-law-will-accept-gre-scores.html?%5Fr=0 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4696360/harvard-law-school-gre-lsat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4696360/harvard-law-school-gre-lsat/"},"headline":"You Don't Need to Sit the LSAT to Get into Harvard Law School Anymore","datePublished":"2017-03-09T08:32:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:44:55.810Z","description":"Harvard says that the move away from sole reliance the LSAT is intended to diversify the range of applicants they receive","url":"https://time.com/4696360/harvard-law-school-gre-lsat/","keywords":["Education","Harvard","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8fa2736d03393c9b/6988bdb2f887dc2be8e995f3/gettyimages-149977859.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Kilpatrick","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8fa2736d03393c9b/6988bdb2f887dc2be8e995f3/gettyimages-149977859.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"General Views Of Harvard University","caption":"General Views Of Harvard University","creditText":"Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/education/","name":"Education"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4696360/harvard-law-school-gre-lsat/","name":"You Don't Need to Sit the LSAT to Get into Harvard Law School Anymore"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Malia Obama Chooses Harvard","description":"The White House Says Malia Obama will attend Harvard University after taking a gap year and will be part of the class of 2021.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/BAeflDxT/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-05-01T17:01:46.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/BAeflDxT.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4696360/harvard-law-school-gre-lsat/","duration":"PT30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4696360/harvard-law-school-gre-lsat/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```