How Law School Admissions Views LSAT-Flex

Will law school admissions look down on LSAT-Flex takers if they've already gotten a low score on the regular LSAT? 

Let's say, your in-person score was low, your LSAT-Flex score is higher. 

No, they won't look down on it. 

They'll know you took the LSAT-Flex, but it's not a huge deal.

Law schools are confident in LSAC's ability to administer a valid and reliable admission test. They're confident that a 75-question exam can be equivalent to -- or equated with -- a 100-question exam. 

Obviously, there are pros and cons to doing a shorter LSAT at home vs a longer one in-person, but law schools want the number. 

They have incentive to care only about the number because that's what goes to the ABA -- meaning that's what's factored into the US News Rankings. So, don't worry about it.

(The admissions professionals in a previous LSAC webinar, as well as those I've spoken with directly, all say they will consider LSAT-Flex scores equal to those earned on the paper and Digital LSATs.)

I wish LSAC wasn't annotating LSAT-Flex scores with an asterisk - it adds a lot of unnecessary stress for students (especially considering they used to add an asterisk to accommodated scores until settlements forced them to stop).

However, if anything, this will remind admissions you took a new LSAT format during a global crisis. It provides a bit of context. Your score is still your score, of course, regardless of the format.

tl;dr Just get the score, the number is what matters the most at the end of the day.