Posted on 08/26/2007 12:14:09 PM PDT by george76
Have racial preferences reduced the number of black lawyers?
Three years ago, UCLA law professor Richard Sander published an explosive, fact-based study of the consequences of affirmative action in American law schools in the Stanford Law Review. Most of his findings were grim, and they caused dismay among many of the champions of affirmative action--and indeed, among those who were not.
Easily the most startling conclusion of his research: Mr. Sander calculated that there are fewer black attorneys today than there would have been if law schools had practiced color-blind admissions--about 7.9% fewer by his reckoning. He identified the culprit as the practice of admitting minority students to schools for which they are inadequately prepared. In essence, they have been "matched" to the wrong school.
Students who attend schools where their academic credentials are substantially below those of their fellow students tend to perform poorly.
in elite law schools, 51.6% of black students had first-year grade point averages in the bottom 10% of their class as opposed to only 5.6% of white students.
Under current practices, only 45% of blacks who enter law school pass the bar on their first attempt as opposed to over 78% of whites. Even after multiple tries, only 57% of blacks succeed.
The rest are often saddled with student debt, routinely running as high as $160,000, not counting undergraduate debt. How great an increase in the number of black attorneys is needed to justify these costs?
The problem is that the admissions officer's job is to enroll students, not to draw the risks of failure to their attention. Indeed, in some cases, the officer may be frantic to enroll minority students in order to comply with the stringent new diversity standards ...
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Thanks george.
Well, they won’t have any trouble closing the lid on my coffin, if that’s what you mean. Haven’t you ever heard that joke before?
I think you are missing my point.
The “joke” would have been fine and funny
in the men’s locker room or the urinal
at Walmart but on a National radio show
with women and many times children listening
I think it was a little crude and out of place.
That is all I was trying to say. OK???
Belated BUMP george, I had a sick spell but am fine now.
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