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best schools for money outside top 15 |
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Let's not kid ourselves |
| Date Posted: |
06/27/2001 |
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No, the top 300 lsat applicants should not all get based on just their lsats--but if they happen to be the top 300 all-around candidates in terms of school, grades, lsat, experience--then of course they should be accepted-regardless of color. However, we all know that schools have a minority quota to fill, so this doesn't happen--if a school has to lower it's standards to get the minimal level of minority students in, then it'll do just that. Meanwhile, many more deserving students will be shafted.
It is widely known that schools set different admissions cutoffs based on race. I had a chance to look at the acceptance grids (which listed race, gpa, lsat, and school admit/deny at the ivy that i attended) It was obvious that the black candidates did not have to achieve as much as white students to gain admission into the top schools. a 160 and 3.0 (hardly top law stats) was good enough for a black student to get NYU law, while similar stats never got a white person in. A white person had to get upper 160s and at least a 3.5.
Of course, many black students by all means deserved to be at the top schools b/c they have the scholastic ability to be there. The mediocre ones shouldn't. |
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Black Kids are not Flunking out of Harvard, Yale or Columbia Law. Since these schools are not big on handing out C's,D's,F's, So All it takes is a minimal amount of competency to do well at these schools. The truth is there are tons of kids who can do very well at these schools who do not get in. So that whole argument about who "deserves" to go to these schools, i really believe is ca-ca.
Of course, the idea of the potential law review Kid who could go on and make great contributions to modern legal thought being rejected in order to make room for a slacker kid who is only looking to score at a firm sounds like a miscarriage of justice, but the truth is those sort of injustices in admissions happens with or without AA.
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