27 Oct, 2006
Change to June 2007 LSAT
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Pre-Law Discussions, LSAT 
Accepted Admissions Almanac reports on the upcoming changes that will take place starting on the June 2007 LSAT exam. Here's some nice analysis on the upcoming.
Some good analysis in this article on insidehighered.com. I find it interesting that two of the major LSAT prep companies are offering opposite advice. These quotes are taken from the above article:
Kaplan's advice:
- "[I]f they are taking it in the next year or so, they should, if they have time to prepare, take it in December or February. Anytime there is uncertainty in the exam, regardless of the magnitude, it should be avoided if you have the opportunity,” said Steven Marietti, director of pre-law programs at Kaplan."
Princeton Review's advice:
- “I think June is a better time to take the exam, in terms of how it fits into the admissions cycle,” Meanza added. “I don’t think that it’s ultimately that big of a deal — I don’t think we need to scare students into doing something just because of two minor changes.”
Kaplan's advice makes a lot of sense to me. In a test that you are (hopefully) going to prepare for extensively and where the cost of a single wrong answer is fairly high, it makes sense to avoid as much uncertainty as possible. But then again, it doesn't make much sense to rearrange a plan you've had in place based on what looks like a very minor change.
I guess it depends on how flexible you are and how comfortable you are with bumping up your LSAT test date to an earlier date.