LSATs Administered at UCSB Go Missing
Some 80 Law-School Hopefuls Must Retake Test; Admissions’ Council Says UPS Lost Scores
Eighty-three aspiring lawyers took the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) on December 5 at UCSB. But rather than anxiously opening their scores, they received a stomach-dropping email from the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), which administers the test, saying their answer sheets had been lost.
“At this point, we have declared the answer sheets to be lost,” the email sent around December 21 read. “To protect the integrity of the scores, we will not score these answer sheets even if they are found,” which, according to LSAC spokesperson Wendy Margolis, they have not. The law-school hopefuls will be refunded their $175 test-taking fee and have a chance to sit through a makeup exam on January 19.
However, many students took to media and social networking sites voicing their frustration about the setback. “I am beyond livid right now. I just received an email from LSAC that my test answers have not been received and my test scores are canceled,” one test taker wrote on Reddit. That student expressed thankfulness to have also taken the LSAT in October since those scores give the ability to apply to law school in February 2016.
