URM 2010-2011 Application Cycle Forum

[blacklawboss]

Is it me or is there an extreme lack of AA men trying to go to law school? I went to an ASD and I was the ONLY one there. Am I living in a bubble or is the way it's always been?

I am not surprised. I went through the NALP website the other day and only 123 AA men matriculated last year (Fall 2010) at T14 schools. The breakdown is below:

UVA 8
Georgetown 16
Harvard 31
Stanford 8
Columbia 8
Cornell 3
Yale 5
Berkeley 8
Michigan 7
Penn 12
NYU 1O
Duke 9
Chicago 4
Northwestern 14

Total = 123

Totally sickening. I guess that explains why I received waivers from Northwestern and Cornell right before their application deadlines. That matriculation is for all 3 years also I'm sure not just incoming L1's

[socraticmethodman]

Is it me or is there an extreme lack of AA men trying to go to law school? I went to an ASD and I was the ONLY one there. Am I living in a bubble or is the way it's always been?

I am not surprised. I went through the NALP website the other day and only 123 AA men matriculated last year (Fall 2010) at T14 schools. The breakdown is below:

UVA 8
Georgetown 16
Harvard 31
Stanford 8
Columbia 8
Cornell 3
Yale 5
Berkeley 8
Michigan 7
Penn 12
NYU 1O
Duke 9
Chicago 4
Northwestern 14

Total = 123

wow

[Malcolm8X]

Is it me or is there an extreme lack of AA men trying to go to law school? I went to an ASD and I was the ONLY one there. Am I living in a bubble or is the way it's always been?

I am not surprised. I went through the NALP website the other day and only 123 AA men matriculated last year (Fall 2010) at T14 schools. The breakdown is below:

UVA 8
Georgetown 16
Harvard 31
Stanford 8
Columbia 8
Cornell 3
Yale 5
Berkeley 8
Michigan 7
Penn 12
NYU 1O
Duke 9
Chicago 4
Northwestern 14

Total = 123

Totally sickening. I guess that explains why I received waivers from Northwestern and Cornell right before their application deadlines. That matriculation is for all 3 years also I'm sure not just incoming L1's

WOW! That is completely amazing. The distribution is heavily geared to Harvard too. It's very interesting to see these low numbers. Thanks for the info!

[blacklawboss]

Is it me or is there an extreme lack of AA men trying to go to law school? I went to an ASD and I was the ONLY one there. Am I living in a bubble or is the way it's always been?

I am not surprised. I went through the NALP website the other day and only 123 AA men matriculated last year (Fall 2010) at T14 schools. The breakdown is below:

UVA 8
Georgetown 16
Harvard 31
Stanford 8
Columbia 8
Cornell 3
Yale 5
Berkeley 8
Michigan 7
Penn 12
NYU 1O
Duke 9
Chicago 4
Northwestern 14

Total = 123

Totally sickening. I guess that explains why I received waivers from Northwestern and Cornell right before their application deadlines. That matriculation is for all 3 years also I'm sure not just incoming L1's

WOW! That is completely amazing. The distribution is heavily geared to Harvard too. It's very interesting to see these low numbers. Thanks for the info!

I looked it up that was 1L stats smdh! I think Many of the eligible AA males RUN to Harvard and Harvard accepts them with open arms! Makes me think I really undershot my applications.

[LLB2JD]

I looked it up that was 1L stats smdh! I think Many of the eligible AA males RUN to Harvard and Harvard accepts them with open arms! Makes me think I really undershot my applications.

I don't know your numbers, but you might have completely undershot.

[Malcolm8X]

LLB2JD, I'll see you at UVA!

[blacklawboss]

LLB2JD, I'll see you at UVA!

Congrats guys REPRESENT!

[socraticmethodman]

LLB2JD, I'll see you at UVA!

+1
Hopefully we can hit double digits for AA males at UVA this year!

[blacklawboss]

LLB2JD, I'll see you at UVA!

+1
Hopefully we can hit double digits for AA males at UVA this year!

I HOPE SO!

[Malcolm8X]

LLB2JD, I'll see you at UVA!

+1
Hopefully we can hit double digits for AA males at UVA this year!

Hopefully! Otherwise it could get lonely over there, lol! But I don't mind too much really.

Blacklawboss, many thanks btw!

[blacklawboss]

LLB2JD, I'll see you at UVA!

+1
Hopefully we can hit double digits for AA males at UVA this year!

Hopefully! Otherwise it could get lonely over there, lol! But I don't mind too much really.

Blacklawboss, many thanks btw!

Hey we all fighting the good fight only love to spread on my part! I wanna see us all win! I cant take below mason dixon line myself, so you will see me in a purple hoodie next fall either NYU or NW

[Malcolm8X]

LLB2JD, I'll see you at UVA!

+1
Hopefully we can hit double digits for AA males at UVA this year!

Hopefully! Otherwise it could get lonely over there, lol! But I don't mind too much really.

Blacklawboss, many thanks btw!

Hey we all fighting the good fight only love to spread on my part! I wanna see us all win! I cant take below mason dixon line myself, so you will see me in a purple hoodie next fall either NYU or NW

+1, I'm wishing you the best of luck man!

[20121109]

I am not surprised. I went through the NALP website the other day and only 123 AA men matriculated last year (Fall 2010) at T14 schools. The breakdown is below:

UVA 8
Georgetown 16
Harvard 31
Stanford 8
Columbia 8
Cornell 3
Yale 5
Berkeley 8
Michigan 7
Penn 12
NYU 1O
Duke 9
Chicago 4
Northwestern 14

Total = 123

Totally sickening. I guess that explains why I received waivers from Northwestern and Cornell right before their application deadlines. That matriculation is for all 3 years also I'm sure not just incoming L1's

WOW! That is completely amazing. The distribution is heavily geared to Harvard too. It's very interesting to see these low numbers. Thanks for the info!

I looked it up that was 1L stats smdh! I think Many of the eligible AA males RUN to Harvard and Harvard accepts them with open arms! Makes me think I really undershot my applications.

You guys know that Harvard routinely enrolls the most amount of AAs in the T14, right? They try to pull in at least 60-65 a year. Our HBLSA chapter is the largest in the nation.

[LLB2JD]

You guys know that Harvard routinely enrolls the most amount of AAs in the T14, right? They try to pull in at least 60-65 a year. Our HBLSA chapter is the largest in the nation.

That is a pretty big class. I sometimes wonder if schools like Chicago, Cornell or Yale do not even try at all. I know Cornell is in Ithaca and nobody wants to go there - but 3 students? Dang

[20121109]

You guys know that Harvard routinely enrolls the most amount of AAs in the T14, right? They try to pull in at least 60-65 a year. Our HBLSA chapter is the largest in the nation.

That is a pretty big class. I sometimes wonder if schools like Chicago, Cornell or Yale do not even try at all. I know Cornell is in Ithaca and nobody wants to go there - but 3 students? Dang

Well Yale's class size is substantially smaller so that may account for raw numbers. But even so, this is not enough to fully explain the disparity of AA male representation. Ithaca...sucks. It just sucks and I know there have been many instances of publicized overt racism in that locale...so I'm not surprised that AAs decide not to attend. I know nothing about Chicago so I can't really speak too much on it...

All I know is that there are so few AA males in higher education, it's kinda sad.

[blacklawboss]

Please take a look at this thread

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 8#p4063278

[law_monkey]

Just in case anyone wants to see the info, I decided to do the same for AA women. Here are the stats:

Cornell: 14 (It looks like this is an anomaly since the previous classes have 6 and 7)
Duke: 8
Harvard: 40
Penn: 8
Stanford: 13
Georgetown: 38
Northwestern: 12
Michigan: 10
UVA: 8
NYU: 24
Columbia: 28
Yale: 10
Chicago: 5
Berkeley: 8

Interesting...

[blacklawboss]

sorry wrong thread (delete

[blacklawboss]

Just in case anyone wants to see the info, I decided to do the same for AA women. Here are the stats:

Cornell: 14 (It looks like this is an anomaly since the previous classes have 6 and 7)
Duke: 8
Harvard: 40
Penn: 8
Stanford: 13
Georgetown: 38
Northwestern: 12
Michigan: 10
UVA: 8
NYU: 24
Columbia: 28
Yale: 10
Chicago: 5
Berkeley: 8

Interesting...

it's similar to the corporate world. A huge disparity between AA men and women.

[yngblkgifted]

Is it me or is there an extreme lack of AA men trying to go to law school? I went to an ASD and I was the ONLY one there. Am I living in a bubble or is the way it's always been?

I am not surprised. I went through the NALP website the other day and only 123 AA men matriculated last year (Fall 2010) at T14 schools. The breakdown is below:

UVA 8
Georgetown 16
Harvard 31
Stanford 8
Columbia 8
Cornell 3
Yale 5
Berkeley 8
Michigan 7
Penn 12
NYU 1O
Duke 9
Chicago 4
Northwestern 14

Total = 123

I've seen the percentages before but the raw numbers appear much more shocking. For some of these schools (*cough* Cornell, Chicago, Yale *cough*), we really are representing the entire black male population in every class. Great, just one more thing to worry about as a 1L.

[law_monkey]

it's similar to the corporate world. A huge disparity between AA men and women.

Yeah. It's weird though that some of them are really similar while other schools have twice as many AA females. I wonder why certain schools are able to get those women? It might just be the larger class size though since Georgetown is one of the schools with a lot more.

[Ratchet Jackson]

Just in case anyone wants to see the info, I decided to do the same for AA women. Here are the stats:

Cornell: 14 (It looks like this is an anomaly since the previous classes have 6 and 7)
Duke: 8
Harvard: 40
Penn: 8
Stanford: 13
Georgetown: 38
Northwestern: 12
Michigan: 10
UVA: 8
NYU: 24
Columbia: 28
Yale: 10
Chicago: 5
Berkeley: 8

Interesting...

it's similar to the corporate world. A huge disparity between AA men and women.

Direct result of graduate school demographics. It's all cyclical.

[blacklawboss]

Just in case anyone wants to see the info, I decided to do the same for AA women. Here are the stats:

Cornell: 14 (It looks like this is an anomaly since the previous classes have 6 and 7)
Duke: 8
Harvard: 40
Penn: 8
Stanford: 13
Georgetown: 38
Northwestern: 12
Michigan: 10
UVA: 8
NYU: 24
Columbia: 28
Yale: 10
Chicago: 5
Berkeley: 8

Interesting...

it's similar to the corporate world. A huge disparity between AA men and women.

Direct result of graduate school demographics. It's all cyclical.

Unfortunate truth

[yngblkgifted]

Just in case anyone wants to see the info, I decided to do the same for AA women. Here are the stats:

Cornell: 14 (It looks like this is an anomaly since the previous classes have 6 and 7)
Duke: 8
Harvard: 40
Penn: 8
Stanford: 13
Georgetown: 38
Northwestern: 12
Michigan: 10
UVA: 8
NYU: 24
Columbia: 28
Yale: 10
Chicago: 5
Berkeley: 8

Interesting...

Some schools have a huge disparity, others either have one or two MORE black males and some have roughly the same....Penn has more black males than black females. This was evident when I visited. There was definitely a relatively strong AA male presence. I'm kind of feeling Cornell though....very little competition for girls into black guys!

[blacklawboss]

Just in case anyone wants to see the info, I decided to do the same for AA women. Here are the stats:

Cornell: 14 (It looks like this is an anomaly since the previous classes have 6 and 7)
Duke: 8
Harvard: 40
Penn: 8
Stanford: 13
Georgetown: 38
Northwestern: 12
Michigan: 10
UVA: 8
NYU: 24
Columbia: 28
Yale: 10
Chicago: 5
Berkeley: 8

Interesting...

Some schools have a huge disparity, others either have one or two MORE black males and some have roughly the same....Penn has more black males than black females. This was evident when I visited. There was definitely a relatively strong AA male presence. I'm kind of feeling Cornell though....very little competition for girls into black guys!

SMDH you a fool bruh lol. In those icy mountains every woman is a strobe light honey!