Posted on 11/27/2022 8:46:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The American Bar Association is under fire after taking steps to abandon LSAT entrance exam scores as a law school admissions requirement after a study showed that minority applicants score lower.
The Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar approved the proposed standards revision earlier this month.
The proposed change now goes to the association's policy-making body, the House of Delegates, for review in February. "But final approval to change ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools rests with the council, which serves as an independent arm of the ABA for the accreditation of the nation’s law schools," said Bill Adams, managing director of ABA accreditation and legal education.
The vote comes after a 2019 study found that black test-takers score 142 on average, 11 points lower than the average for white and Asian test-takers. The 50th percentile is approximately 152 on the test, which gives scores ranging from 120 to 180. The Law School Admissions Council, which administers the LSAT, does not readily publish data about scores by race.
Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) told "Just the News, No Noise" TV show last week that he wishes the LSAT was not a requirement when he was applying to law schools.
"I can guarantee you that's going to have an effect on their schools' bar passage rate if they do away with that," he said.
"But again, it's another example where it's identity politics or, you know, they're more concerned about affirmative action and race than they are the people that can intellectually pass the rigors of law school and become good lawyers," Steube said.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board blasted the ABA move. "The American Bar Association's move to discard objective tests won’t enhance diversity," the board wrote on Thursday. Without the testing, the board argued, students will arrive at school less prepared and unready for the eventual bar exam, which it said may be targeted for elimination next.
Sixty law school deans also signed a letter to the ABA in September stating that eliminating the testing requirement will "diminish the diversity of
law schools' incoming classes."
!!% boost for melanin?
Will they follow the Jim Crow 1/16 rule?
The Bar Lowers
Limbo! 🎶
Repeat after me - there are no differences between the races.
No LSAT, no Bar... what could possibly go wrong?
That nasty old IQ Bell Curve rears up again....
No getting around it.
Yup.
I honestly think Blacks are their own worst enemy in
situations like this. Whites and Asians who want to excel
really put in the work.
And yeah, I think there are plenty of lazy White people out
there, so I am not trying to say all Whites really put in
the effort
I do not think that Blacks are less capable of doing well.
I do not think their upbringing is being handled properly.
Somewhere along the line, they are being failed. I do
not think it is the education system. Why can others
attend the same classes, read the same materials, and do
quite well in grades and special testing?
I do not buy off on there being some grand conspiracy that
only Whites and Asians can get through successfully.
That’s about the same variance on old IQ tests. But that was racist.
That’s black college graduates who score so much lower.
Bell curve of IQ is real.
RE: No LSAT, no Bar... what could possibly go wrong?
Well for one, the Medical Licensure Exams will be next to go.
Make everyone take a PLSAT test to weed out those who are unlikely to get a good score.
There are Good Lawyers?
Once again, they think they can plaster over problems by changing standards, instead of focusing on the CAUSE of the problem,#1 being the PISS POOR public education cultivated by the likes of Randi Weingarten.
Dr. Murray is again validated. Facts are indeed troublesome things.
Who wants a lawyer too stupid to pass the LSAT with a reasonable score?
And why are Blacks identified as being so stupid, by the LSAT committee?
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