[Clock King]

“It was pointed out that over-reliance on LSAT scores by many Law Schools has left out many African-American students who have low scores due to lack of resources for adequate preparation.”

Crap stetements like this piss me off. There's not a damn thing in the world stopping a black man from reading and studying. Nothing.

[vetsvette]

“There’s not a damn thing in the world stopping a black man from reading and studying. Nothing.”

I agree. And, encouraging black people to not study by giving them preferences in admissions without regard to their individual efforts is dysfunctional.

But, the American left has always been about racial discrimination. The only thing that ever changes is which people they think should benefit from the discrimination they support.

[blau993]

I admittedly took the LSAT back in the Dark Ages, but in those days there was no "preparation" for it that I ever heard of aside from having had a decent education, good reading and writing ability, and some good reasoning skills.

My immediate preparation was almost my undoing. My 21st birthday celebration took place the night before the LSATs, and several friends and I closed down more than a few bars that night. I was surprised I did as well as I did, since I pretty much took a pass on the first hour of the test.

Seriously, though, blacks have been ill-served by affirmative action admissions to top law schools. They tend to cluster in the bottom third of their classes at those schools, and many become disillusioned and lose any incentive to try to excel. Many of these students would do better to attend lesser law schools where they would be more competitive.

The other insidious effect of affirmative action is its tendency to devalue the degrees minority students achieve. I read today that Justice Thomas, in his new book, says that he believes potential employers discounted his law degree from Yale because he was assumed to be the beneficiary of affirmative action.