Title of Paper : Etale approximations and mod l cohomology of GL_n Author: Marian Florin Anton AMS Classification numbers: 19D55 Addresses of Author: Dept. of Math., Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN 46556-5683, U.S.A. also I.M.A.R., Bucharest, Romania Text of Abstract: If A is a ring of S-integers and l a prime rational number, then the mod p cohomology of the general linear group GL(n,A) is conjectured to be isomorphic to the mod p cohomology of the etale approximation of the classifying space BGL(n,A). We show that this is not possible if n is sufficiently large.