{"id":65538,"date":"2017-09-15T09:35:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=65538"},"modified":"2020-03-12T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:22:14","slug":"law-school-gre-pilot-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/15\/law-school-gre-pilot-program\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> law school embarks on GRE<\/abbr> admissions pilot program"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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William S. Richardson School of Law orientation session in August 2014. (credit: Spencer Kimura)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> will be accepting the most widely used graduate school exam as an alternative to the LSAT<\/abbr> for its law school admission process on a one-year trial basis.<\/p>\n

The faculty\u2019s decision to pilot the GRE<\/abbr>® General Test followed the law school\u2019s role as one of the first three law schools to have completed a validation study of the GRE<\/abbr>® test in collaboration with Educational Testing Service. The 2016 School of Law data showed that GRE<\/abbr>® scores were a better predictor of first year law school grades than were undergraduate grades.The pilot program analysis also noted that previous research had already shown that the GRE<\/abbr>® General Test was a valid and reliable measure to predict academic performance in law school.<\/p>\n