March 3, 2006
Law Schools Misuse LSAT, Study Finds
In an effort to raise their U.S. News & World Report rankings and avoid trouble with accreditors, law-school admissions officers overemphasize standardized-test scores and thereby discriminate against African-American applicants whose scores, on average, are lower than those of their white peers, according to a report due out in March.
As a result, the numbers of African-American students applying to, enrolling in, and graduating from law schools continue to decline, even as the
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