LSAC Newsletter Page 5

Matriculation Certification Simplified

A simplified Matriculation Certification process has sped up processing time by nearly a month over last year, leading to a completion date of no later than November 15. This streamlining has been made possible by reducing by half the number of handoffs among schools, the ABA, and LSAC. We all benefit from the efficiencies that come from collaboration, and we are grateful to Barry Currier and his staff at the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar for their partnership in streamlining reporting processes for law schools.

New Enrollment Management Assistance

Individual law schools often ask LSAC for enrollment assistance that goes beyond ACES support. LSAC will soon offer customized enrollment management services for individual schools interested in maximizing their data for more informed recruiting, admission, and scholarship decisions. Susan Krinsky, longtime admission dean and LSAC’s new Director of Enrollment Management, is heading up the development of this valuable service. Watch for details this winter.

Coming in July—the New ACES with CRM

Want the best CRM on the market and the only one tailored for legal education? Our member schools will have it. Starting next summer, ACES will have CRM built in. The new ACES will be the one tool admission offices need to manage candidates from when they first appear on a school’s radar as prospects until the time they matriculate. Easy-to-create workflows will build marketing campaigns from segmented lists that are already in ACES; easy-to-use, drag-and-drop templates will make it easy to create compelling marketing pieces; all interactions with candidates, such as open rates, links clicked, and responses, can be tracked at the individual level; and form templates and survey tools are built in. For information, contact JoAnn Sabol at LSAC: jsabol@LSAC.org; 215.968.1118.

Correlation Studies, Regression Studies, and Validity Studies

From their shorthand name, it is easy to overlook all that LSAT’s free, annual statistical studies for each law school offer. While they have become known as the “correlation

studies,” they have always done far more. LSAT’s annual studies incorporate school-specific regression analyses and tools that are extremely valuable in supporting the admission decision-making process. No member school needs to pay for or risk transmitting data for a regression or other similar study—all member law schools already have it for free.

LSAC’s regression results describe the optimal weighting of LSAT score and UGPA to most accurately predict FYA within an individual law school. A contextual analysis is also included to help a law school understand its results in relation to those of other law schools. Please contact us if you need clarification on what is available to your school. Our skilled team of psychometricians is at your service; please contact Nazia Rahman at CorrStudy@LSAC.org.

Relatedly, because LSAC supports every aspect of the law school admission process, we are also able to provide your school predictive validity evaluations safely and securely without the need for you to go to the trouble or expense of sending sensitive, private data to a commercial vendor for such analyses. If your law school is interested in a customized validity study, please email Nazia Rahman at CorrStudy@LSAC.org.