Beginning this fall, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona will no longer require the GRE for graduate admissions. Students interested in joining our program will see an update on the website soon! #GRExit
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Replying to @BarkerLab @razibkhan
But why? The GRE is really useful in identifying talent from midranked colleges.
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Evolutionary Biology requires a lot of intelligence. Especially the more technical parts of population genetics and evolutionary game theory. Why handicap admissions accuracy by ignored standardized tests?
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Replying to @primalpoly @PowerfulThighs and
Being able to answer 75 questions about prime factorization in 60 mins is a cool party trick But its going to tell the admissions committees next to nothing about how you’ll think critically or how you’ll stand up to real adversity in your PhD And thats ignoring its huge biases
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You must have taken the GRE, and you know damned well that you're misrepresenting both its content and its predictive validity.
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