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TMI

Even if all your premises are accepted as true, your conclusion doesn't necessarily follow. You are assuming that the URM boost ends at law axhool admissions. If URMs are given a bump in the hiring process as well, then below median grades at a top school may not hurt them.

I don't know anything about this actually, though. Just wanted to point out a hole in your argument.

TMI

As to money: From what I've seen URMs receive comparable $$ to other applicants. Their numbers are judged differently for scholarship purposes--you can be well below LSAT median and get $$$.

I think it's an overstatement to claim that most URMs are likely to graduate below median. The LSAT doesn't predict performance as well as that. The rule that holds for all other applicants probably holds for URMs as well: your actual performance is impossible to predict, even with a fairly large LSAT disparity with the rest of the population, so the best bet is to go to the highest-ranking school possible.

With the boost, URMs can get into all the schools they would have gotten into without the boost, and with more money. Even if attending a better school hurts their class rank (dubious), it might be a net gain in employment prospects.

By the way, affirmative action debates are not allowed in on-topic forums.