If attending law school do you have to take the SAT test or LSAT?

Question

if attending law school do you have to take the SAT test or LSAT during my senior year? How does it work?

Answer 1

If you're referring to your senior year in college, then you're taking the LSAT to get into law school (but if you don't know that already then............)

I assume you're a senior in high school, so you're not going to law school until after undergraduate school, so you should be taking the SAT or ACT to get into college first. After that, if you still want, you can prepare for the LSAT to get into law school.

Answer 2

If you're referring to senior year as in the fourth year in high school, then no you do not need to take the LSAT yet.

If you're currently in high school, take the SATs junior year.  Then apply to colleges in the fall, which is in the beginning of your senior year.

When you're in college is when you'll decide whether or not you want to go to law school right after you get your bachelor's or if you want to take some time off to work and then go to law school.

Then if you decide to go to law school, take the LSATs in your 3rd or in the beginning of your 4th year (around the time when your accomplish 60-100 units).

For instance, I'm right on track to complete my bachelor's (major: political science, minor: women's studies) in four years.  So, I'm taking my LSATs early October.  Ideally, I could have taken them during my junior year, but I decided to hold off so I could spend the summer studying the LSATs.  The LSATs are VERY important in law school admissions.  

So good luck!  It sounds like you have some time to go, so it's great that you're already looking into it.

Answer 3

If you didn't have to take the S AT for your undergrad entrance, then you won't have to take it now.  However, LSAT was required for admission to all the law schools when I attended ( early 90's).  Usually, admission to law school hinges on undergrad grades and LSAT scores (if one isn't so good, the other really needs to be great!).  Don't worry though, if you are a good reader then that will take care of 3/4 of the test - the other is this voodoo "reasoning" deal that you just need to get a study guide and teach yourself.  Good Luck!