LSAT:
Karen
Sloan, “Research
documents the 'U.S. News' effect on law schools”,
National Law Journal, December 2, 2009
“Administrators consistently reported that they have allocated more money
toward merit-based scholarships in order to attract students with high
LSAT scores, a factor that accounts for half of a school's selectivity score.
That
leaves
less money for need-based scholarships, which in turn can hurt student
body diversity because applicants from lower income groups tend to have lower
scorer
LSAT scores,
the researchers found.”
Karen
Sloan, “Going
to law school? Proceed with caution”, National
Law Journal, December 14, 2009
“A J.D. used to mean a first-class seat on the gravy train. Now? Not so
much. Critics say law schools have a duty to warn.”
“… [L]aw schools often highlight the median or average starting salary
of graduates — which is misleading, because it tends to be skewed by a
small percentage of high earners that obscures the larger group earning $60,000
or less… [and] , the employment statistics that law schools provide often
are incomplete because graduates without jobs are less likely to report back
to their schools….”
GMAT:
Alison
Damast, “Crackdown
on China GMAT Cheating”, Business Week,
December 3, 2009
“Business school applicants who use Chinese Web sites to get a sneak peek
at GMAT questions are having their scores revoked and being banned from retaking
the test.”
GRE:
Metro
Desk, “GRE
gains at biz schools”,
The Boston Globe, December 12, 2009
“More business schools are accepting GRE scores as the sole exam, said
Mark McNutt, a spokesman at the Educational Testing Services, which administers
the GRE. The list has grown from 170 MBA programs in January to 285 schools
today, including seven of the top programs, he said.”
James
Gallagher, “New
GRE to impact NCSU, Duke, UNC”, Triangle
Business Journal, December 7, 2009
“Beginning in 2011, the test will be scored on a scale of 130-170, which
ETS says better reflects small differences in scores than the current 200-800
scale.”
“Test takers will be able to use calculators on the math portion. And ETS
is doing away with widely detested analogy and antonym sections that largely
test a person’s vocabulary.”
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