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Above WSJ article by Douglas Belkin, Nov 6, 2019, front page. Universities want to show exclusivity by rejecting more applicants, so applicants become unknowing pawns. Might the same thing be going on with law school?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019 DOUGLAS BELKIN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Colleges rise in national rankings and reputation when they show data suggesting they are more selective. They can do that by rejecting more applicants, whether or not those candidates ever stood a chance. Some applicants, in effect, become unknowing pawns.

Feeding this dynamic is the College Board, the New York nonprofit that owns the SAT, a test designed to level the college-admissions playing field.

The board is using the SAT as the foundation for another business: selling test-takers’ names and personal information to universities.

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Above WSJ article by Douglas Belkin, Nov 6, 2019, front page. Universities want to show exclusivity by rejecting more applicants, so applicants become unknowing pawns. Might the same thing be going on with law school?

I'm fairly certain this is why all the top schools started accepting the GRE. Once one school did it, that school was bound to get more applications from people who take the GRE and are like, "might as well apply to law school." Then that school gets more selective and goes up in the rankings.

exactly