Blacks and Law School Discrimination

This article just reinforces the "pathology of the black student"--that given the chance you run into a black student on any non-HBUC campus, he or she is undoubtedly unqualified to be at that institution. What a shame! Across this nation, thousands of black students are in classes with white counterparts who actually scored lower than them on some (your pick) admissions test. And yet, everyone comfortably assumes that the truth is the other way around. At your most selective law schools, you have highly impressive applicants--of all races. At your less selective law schools, you have less-impressive applicants--of all races. That's really all that is going on when you consider LSAT scores. The support and education a student receives in law school is the most honest (and thus hardest to measure) predictor of a student's future success.

Jason of MD 1:18PM December 05, 2009

LSAT score does not reveal much about the student. As a minority I worked so hard for the family and never had good time to study leading to poor LSAT score. As an immigrant from Africa I could'nt land a job that I trained for.I ended up working as a CNA. The job exhausted me so much that there was no way I could do well in LSAT.However,I had to take vacation to pass the test with a respectable score.

Failure by minority students to do well in LSAT is an indicator of hardship the students come from. If anything the test score actually reveals who was coached and who was not.It doesn't tell much about who'll do well and who'll not in law school.

The talk that the minorities are ne'er do wells doesn't add up until many factors that undermine and subjugate them are considered. Many of us are products of poverty and deprivation. We have few role models and lack encouragement.If all these and many other factors are reversed we shall have good scores.

J.K. LELEITTO SANG of MN 10:39PM July 03, 2009

-Some people believe that granting admissions a non-traditional minority student with low test scores over a traditional non-minority student with high test scores is harmful to minority students because they tend to drop out, flunk out, or, even if they graduate, pass the bar examination at a lower rate than students with higher standardized test scores.

-However, non-traditional minority students come from complex backgrounds and not given the same quality of education as their higher scoring peers, that tend to come from affluent backgrounds.

-Furthermore, minority students will lose regardless as highly selective scores place a greater emphasis on high test scores than less selective and lower ranked institutions. Consequently, these highly selective schools like Harvard, Stanford, and Yale fail to account for the myriad educational inequalities predominantly within urban elementary and high schools. For this reason, some minority students remain in a lose-lose situation.

Standardized tests, and other artificial barriers in our society like racism, are social constraints designed to oppress African Americans and maintain white supremacy.

Mauriell A. of IL 6:17PM May 30, 2009

Nice try...someone writing a clearly incoherent, self-righteous, excuse-laden post, pretending to be an uneducated "Blackman" (sic) who wants to go to law school. I do not buy it.

"The FBI problem with me is because" (sic) I am a dumb, racist white guy who wishes only to perpetuate the negative stereotypes associated with Black males...this is what you should have written.

And, BTW, I am, myself, a Black male! Go somewhere else with your phony, racist banter.

Ivan of WA 2:37AM February 22, 2009