University of Nebraska Board of Regents to consider Governance and Technology Center at law school
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR — Lincoln Public Schools is among the growing number of high schools in Nebraska and other states to no longer assign students a class rank. The University of Nebraska is poised to add to its academic performance requirements, bringing the admissions practices of its undergraduate campuses more in line with both national…
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DAILY EMERALD — University of Oregon students with a 3.5 GPA upon graduation and an SAT or ACT score in the top 85th percentile will not be required to take the Law School Admissions Test to apply to the UO School of Law. Currently, 14% of UO law school students are“double ducks,” or UO undergraduate alums, according…
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KLKN-TV — Seton Hall University School of Law is pleased to announce that it is now accepting the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) in addition to or in place of the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) for J.D. admissions. The GRE is an accepted standardized test for admission into many fields, including business, computer science, and engineering.…
Read More about Seton Hall Law to accept GRE for admissionHalf of July LSAT test-takers cancelled their score
NATIONAL JURIST –For the first — and only — time, test-takers could see their scores and choose whether to keep them. Normally, you can’t see them. If you think you did poorly and want to cancel, you do so blindly. The test was going digital, with one half taking it in the new manner and…
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PBS — With frustration like the Tomasulos’ compounded by reports of test-takers gaming the system or out-and-out cheating, more and more people seem to agree — including some colleges themselves, and a few elected politicians. This means the SAT and ACT are facing what could be the greatest challenge in their histories, which stretch back to…
Read More about Fewer colleges require SAT and ACT for admissionLSAC to overhaul analytical reasoning skills section on LSAT as result of settlement
ABA JOURNAL — The current analytical reasoning section of the Law School Admission Test will eventually be dropped as a result of a settlement in a lawsuit by a legally blind man who said he was unable to draw diagrams to help him answer the questions. But analytical reasoning—also referred to as logic games—will still be…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Brown University announced Friday that entrance to 24 of its graduate programs will no longer require the Graduate Record Examination. Brown’s move follows a similar move by Princeton University, which last month announced that 14 of its departments have dropped the GRE as a requirement. For some time, individual departments have dropped…
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THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON LAW — The University of Akron School of Law will immediately begin accepting GRE scores from applicants as an alternative to the traditional LSAT. The law school faculty voted unanimously in favor of accepting the GRE as part of the application package. This makes Akron the first public law school in Ohio…
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BLOOMBERG LAW — XploreJD uses a proprietary algorithm to evaluate factors such as location and graduation rates outside the realm of rankings, and help aspiring law students find a good fit. The XploreJD website provides a series of questions which can be completed initially in 15 minutes in six areas for students to look at their…
Read More about New platform from AccessLex Institute helps prospective law students find the right schoolJudge rules for Harvard University in admissions practice case
INSIDE HIGHER ED — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Harvard University’s admissions policies do not discriminate against Asian American applicants. The ruling by Judge Allison Burroughs of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts came in a much-watched case brought by a long-standing critic of affirmative action on behalf of a group of Asian American plaintiffs.
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