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[quote=Anonymous]I am a lawyer and before law school I taught LSAT and SAT for Kaplan (although not GRE).

This allowing of law students to submit a GRE score doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The LSAT tests (and does a pretty good job of testing) how much any given test taker "thinks like a lawyer." The GRE does not test that.

Many who score very high on the LSAT do not score anywhere near as well on the GRE (I'm one of those people. I scored 97th percentile on the LSAT and had a high-average score on the GRE; I found law school exams, the bar exam, and practicing -- at least the intellectual part of it -- pretty easy). And many score very well on the GRE and poorly on the LSAT.

OP wonders about GRE test takers and LSAT takers "in terms of intellectual ability." The strengths and weaknesses any person with strong intellectual ability has can vary a great deal. I can do any logic puzzle you give me with speed and really enjoy it (although those are gone from the lsat now), but I can't remember how to do any geometry and would not have the patience to re-learn it. Bottom line is that people with plenty of "intellectual ability" have different strengths and may perform very differently on these two tests -- which are quite different.

The standard thing that people say is that the LSAT is much harder than the GRE. Not at all true for many people who naturally think in a highly analytical way. But for those who don't, for those who really don't enjoy logic, the LSAT can be much harder than the GRE.  It just kind of depends on what kind of "intellectual ability" one has.

So I think GRE and LSAT are apple/orange, and if I were a dean at a law school I wouldn't accept the GRE in lieu of the LSAT.

And it should go without saying, but I'll say it, but there are plenty of extremely smart people who will bomb both -- so GRE and LSAT scores are no proxy for intelligence. Just felt the need to throw that reminder in here. [/quote]

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