Why Do Black Applicants Have Such A Huge Boost? Forum

[mpasi]

A quick caveat about this thread...if you're anti-affirmative action/anti-diversity, please don't post here. Spanx.



I know several black lawyers, and even more black law students. A lot of them attend or attended top schools for undergrad, and some are from privileged backgrounds. What gives? I know we make up 12% of the population, but, considering how many black people go to law schools are successful with it, why is there such a huge boost for them in admissions decisions?

[chadwick218]

This will go no where good and the answer is apparent. END OF THREAD!

[scionb4]

Affirmative action has a lot to do with fear of law suits and prosecution. I'm saying that's good, bad, or indifferent. I'm just stating a certainty.

[Joga Bonito]

Why Why....Why have you done this.

[mpasi]

It's not apparent to me, which is why I'm asking. If anyone wants to be a dick about the thread, it can be ignored.

[DoctorNick189]

http://www.bordom.net/view/28072/Get_it_together_Tyrone

[BruceBarr]

I live in a $700,000 house. I'm from the second wealthiest city inside of the third wealthiest county in the U.S.

I'm rich. So are my neighbors.

How come the black kid up the street got into U of M for his undergrad with shit for grades? (this is before the No.2 vote in MI)

Because he's black.

[Joga Bonito]

It's not apparent to me, which is why I'm asking. If anyone wants to be a dick about the thread, it can be ignored.

The dicks are coming but their not quite here yet, just you wait.

[09042014]

will end terribly, and probably quickly

What is having sex with Desert Fox, Alex?

[reasonabledoubt]

I live in a $700,000 house. I'm from the second wealthiest city inside of the third wealthiest county in the U.S.

I'm rich. So are my neighbors.

How come the black kid up the street got into U of M for his undergrad with shit for grades? (this is before the No.2 vote in MI)

Because he's black.

Huh? I live in a $600,000 condo that I bought 5 years ago when the economy didn't blow - now it's worth $470ish. Hey everyone, lets brag about our real estate in this thread and then end with non sequitor transition into bigotry. You're strange Bruce, and don't make much sense.

[$1.99]

lol nice one

[Cupidity]

Critical Mass

[beef wellington]

I live in a $700,000 house. I'm from the second wealthiest city inside of the third wealthiest county in the U.S.

I'm rich. So are my neighbors.

How come the black kid up the street got into U of M for his undergrad with shit for grades? (this is before the No.2 vote in MI)

Because he's black.

ibtl

[scionb4]

Why Why....Why have you done this.

Why do you want to go to law school if you are afraid to talk about hot-button issues like affirmative action. If you become a lawyer, you will have to discuss uncomfortable subjects. This is good practice for you, because on an internet thread no one knows who you really are. If you can't discuss an issue like this one when no one can see your face, what're you going to do when a professor calls you out socratic style on an issue that you aren't comfortable discussing, or you get a case that is morally ambiguous? Just deal with it. The OP asked a valid question.

[ruleser]

I can answer this very clearly. Spoke with a black attorney out here in LA the other day. They said point blank firms are desperate for diversity - because clients want it, and it is still very hard to come by.

[hiromoto45]

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[jonas586]

The dicks are coming but their not quite here yet, just you wait.

This sounds like dialogue out of a bad porno/horror hybrid film.

[nycparalegal]

I live in a $700,000 house. I'm from the second wealthiest city inside of the third wealthiest county in the U.S.

I'm rich. So are my neighbors.

How come the black kid up the street got into U of M for his undergrad with shit for grades? (this is before the No.2 vote in MI)

Because he's black.

Huh? I live in a $600,000 condo that I bought 5 years ago when the economy didn't blow - now it's worth $470ish. Hey everyone, lets brag about our real estate in this thread and then end with non sequitor transition into bigotry. You're strange Bruce, and don't make much sense.

Geez how underwater are you with your mortgage?

[DoctorNick189]

[posted link already]

[scionb4]

The dicks are coming but their not quite here yet, just you wait.

This sounds like dialogue out of a bad porno/horror hybrid film.

RUN AWAY!!!! THE DICKS ARE CUMMING!!!!!

[ilovethelsat]

There are several factors that determine the boost a URM receives. I'll list them below:

1. The number of students from a given ethnicity that attain a certain LSAT score.

2. The number of spots a law school wants to fill with a students from a certain URM.

3. The general manner in which a URM group is treated in law school admissions.

Let's say you are the dean of Yale Law School. You know that almost everyone you accept will attend. Suppose you decide to admit 30 black students. But you run into a problem: you cannot find 30 qualified black students. In fact, you can only find 7 black students with LSAT scores over 170. Since racial diversity is more important than fairness, you decide to give them a boost, and in this case, a 6 point average LSAT boost is needed to admit 30 blacks.

Now let's say you are the dean of Georgetown Law School, and you know that most students you admit will not attend. So if you want to admit 30 qualified black students, you will be competing with all of the other T14's! Thus, you will have to admit black students in the low 160's, thereby granting these black applicants an even larger boost.

Blacks receive such a large boost in law school admissions because (1) there aren't a lot of high-scoring blacks and (2) law schools reserve large numbers of spots for blacks, creating a domino effect in which lower ranked schools have to give even larger boosts to enroll a critical mass of black students.

On the other hand, law schools don't seem to reserve many spots in their freshman classes for Hispanics. If they did, the Hispanic LSAT boost would be almost as large as the black LSAT boost.

[scionb4]

The dicks are coming but their not quite here yet, just you wait.

This sounds like dialogue out of a bad porno/horror hybrid film.

RUN AWAY!!!! THE DICKS ARE CUMMING!!!!!

THEY'VE ORGANIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[reasonabledoubt]

I live in a $700,000 house. I'm from the second wealthiest city inside of the third wealthiest county in the U.S.

I'm rich. So are my neighbors.

How come the black kid up the street got into U of M for his undergrad with shit for grades? (this is before the No.2 vote in MI)

Because he's black.

Huh? I live in a $600,000 condo that I bought 5 years ago when the economy didn't blow - now it's worth $470ish. Hey everyone, lets brag about our real estate in this thread and then end with non sequitor transition into bigotry. You're strange Bruce, and don't make much sense.

Geez how underwater are you with your mortgage?

I put money down... but don't have much equity left after the enormous depreciation. Oh well.... anyways, back to the topic.

[Rowinguy2009]

Last first page spot

[reasonabledoubt]

First 2nd page spot. Enjoy my abs, they're not controversial, but they are a situation.