[garbanzo]

Notice how the admission in law school is purely at the mercy of the school bureaucracy

Since when wasn't it? Do you suggest we put law school admissions up for public vote?

[Steve Eisenberg]

Notice how the admission in law school is purely at the mercy of the school bureaucracy

Since when wasn't it? Do you suggest we put law school admissions up for public vote?

I suggest that if the state is going to run a law school, the legislature should dictate objective admissions criteria only, such as tests scores and grade point average. If the bureaucrats want, they can keep statistics on the law school grades received by admittees from different undergraduate schools and discount each school's GPA's accordingly. However, if you go beyond that to allow soft criteria such as how the applicant did on an interview, they are going to shy away from conservative applicants. Kennedy alludes to the disdain for GOP applicants in his otherwise weak dissent.

[singsong]

>Notice how the admission in law school is purely at the mercy of the school bureaucracy Since when wasn't it? Do you suggest we put law school admissions up for public vote?
Nah, You'r not getting it. Admission was based on test results and school grades.There were rules for calculating total score ranking etc. There was an audit-able trial of evidence and if rules were broken one could sue. That puts a check on favoritism. As it stands now, there are no rules. Actually there is one. From the mouth of a Michigan University bureaucrat it sounds like this "The rule is ME". Some super fuzzy "life experience assessment" can be understood and performed only and only by the bureaucrat. It's final and one has to take it... whole.