Providing Score Reports to WVU Law
Both the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS) consider their score reports to be valid for five admission cycles after the test in question. LSAC will automatically report all LSAT test scores since June 2018 to WVU Law via an applicant’s Credential Assembly Service (CAS) report. To maintain parity in the requirements between the LSAT and GRE results and to continue to study the validity of the GRE in connection to academic success at WVU Law, applicants must also submit all GRE test results since July 2018. Applicants may not choose which results they will share. A failure to comply with this policy may result in a withdrawal of an offer of admission.
If an applicant has concerns about sharing all test results from the last five years, the Enrollment Management Committee encourages the student to utilize the Addendum section of their application to elaborate upon the circumstances in question. The Enrollment Management Committee will review such scores within the context of the information the applicant provides.
Applicants who submit their materials and later register for the GRE must inform the Enrollment Management Office of their plans via email at wvulaw.admissions@mail.wvu.edu.
Students admitted as a GRE-only applicant and who subsequently take the LSAT will be subject to admission and/or scholarship reconsideration. In the event that an offer of admission and/or scholarship is rescinded, any seat deposits paid will be refunded.
Multiple Score Reports
If an applicant has taken both the GRE and the LSAT, the Enrollment Management Committee will review all scores but must report the highest LSAT score to the American Bar Association (ABA).
If an applicant has taken the LSAT multiple times, the Enrollment Management Committee will review all scores but must report the highest LSAT score to the ABA.
If an applicant applies as a GRE-only applicant and has taken that exam multiple times, the Enrollment Management Committee will review all scores but must “super score” (i.e., take the highest section scores an applicant received regardless of whether they occurred on the same test administration) and report those highest section scores to the ABA.
Comparing the GRE and LSAT
The Enrollment Management Committee utilizes two methods when evaluating the GRE versus the LSAT.
ETS provides a conversion tool on their website to translate a GRE score into an LSAT score. This conversion tool is based on ETS’s research into the predictive validity of the GRE vis-a-vis the LSAT and first year law school grades.
U.S. News & World Report asks law schools to report GRE-only applicants’ scores via section percentile scores rather than either raw scores or the ETS conversion tool. You may find the percentile scores for each section of the GRE here.
WVU Law’s entering Class of 2026 had an LSAT median of 155 which was in the 58th percentile for that exam. We encourage GRE-only applicants to score in that percentile or higher for each section of the GRE.
