“A lot of undergraduates are unaware that many law schools, such as ours, are really looking for people of very diverse backgrounds. We’re looking for artists and chemists and undergraduate engineering majors. We’re not looking for people who have the more traditional backgrounds,” explained Avi Soifer, Dean of the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, after a Sept. 14 that the law school would begin accepting the Graduate Record Examinations in lieu of the Law School Admission Test on a one-year trial basis.
Richardson Law joined Harvard, Georgetown, Arizona, and Northwestern as the fifth law school in the country to change its application process in this way, stimulating…
