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LSAT no longer: UA Law to use GRE scores for admission UA becomes first school to accept graduate testing other than LSAT BY CHASTITY LASKEY The Daily Wildcat
After partnering with Educational Testing Service, the UA James E. Rogers College of Law is the first law school to open admissions accepting Graduate Record Examination scores alone. The law school will now accept applicants who took either the Law School Admission Test or the GRE, based on a recent study that suggests both tests are reliable and valid predictions of firstterm law school grades. College of Law Dean Marc Miller said this change will increase diversity because it will create a larger base of students who can apply for or consider going to law school. While the LSAT is only offered
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four times a year, the GRE is less expensive to take and prepare for and can be taken five times within a year, according to Miller. “We now have a mechanism that makes it much easier for students to apply,” Miller said. “Roughly 100,000 students take the LSAT a year and 550,000 take the GRE.” Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, Christopher Robertson, said he led efforts to conduct the validity study on campus by recruiting 78 students currently in the College of Law to either share their previously taken GRE scores or get the fee waived to take the GRE and share their scores. Robertson said that ETS set up a testing site at the UA for
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Go digital first with new data center Arizona’s storm of 3s send seniors off on high note, p. 15
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BY MACKENZIE BOULTER The Daily Wildcat
The UA has created a Center for Digital Society and Data Studies to address some of the major challenges and disciplinary divides that data have introduced. With the digital age emerging at an increasingly fast speed, issues with digitizing technology, data capabilities and social media technologies are
now being addressed with a new center. Catherine Brooks, director for the center, said the UA is already doing this sort of work. “The School of Information at the university is already an interdisciplinary place where thinkers, programmers and scientists explore and address today’s big questions and problems relative to information, analytic tools and today’s societal issues,” Brooks said. With hopes to tackle challenges in digital
and data curating, the center plans to bring together scholars from different disciplines to focus on asking and answering the big questions concerning citizens both in the U.S. and beyond. Through collaboration, a team of faculty and researchers made sure that the center takes a notso-digital-first way of thinking. “The center is determined to make intelligent
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