<p>I know the last thing someone should be thinking about 3 days before the LSAT is cancelling their score.</p>
<p>but I found this article interesting, in which a former U chicago admission head addresses a question about cancelling a score with the new Highest score policy in effect for some schools.</p>
<p>bottom line is that the new policy reduces a lot of the risk of posting a terrible score. but some schools will still look negatively upon it.</p>
<p>As has been discussed in many previous threads and on the websites of several law schools, just because a law school has to report the highest LSAT score of its matriculating students doesn't mean that that same law school won't use an average score in making admissions determinations. All evidence points to the fact that law schools (most, many, all?) will continue to use an applicant's average scores in admissions. </p>
<p>In any event, any LSAT that you take within the five years prior to applying to law school will show up on your LSAC report that is sent to your law schools. To think that the law schools won't take notice of (a) lower scores and (b) multiple attempts at the test would be misguided, at best. Law school and the practice of law is a one shot deal -- one final exam determines your entire grade for a class in law school, for example. Law schools admissions professionals obviously know this, and unless you have an excellent reason for taking the LSAT more than once (poor testing conditions, illness, etc.), you would be well advised to study hard and take the LSAT once (okay -- maybe twice if you completely bomb the test the first time, because it can't hurt your chances then).</p>
<p>Yeah, I don't think we disagree. I'm just saying that the new policy significantly lessens, but by no means eliminates, the effects of bombing the exam.</p>
<p>so one should think harder now before cancelling an exam. </p>
<p>but yeah, until we know more about the implementation of the aba policy, one should def. plan on only taking it once.</p>