Word: lsat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this simply life in a meritocracy? Not exactly. The fact is, we really were "good enough" for most of the jobs, internships, and graduate schools to which applied. All too often, the selection of one over another comes down to intangibles, or slight differences in GPA, LSAT or connections...
...have a high LSAT score you shouldn't take that as a reason to apply to law school," Curll said...
...Although LSAT scores are important, Curll and Rakoff both urged students away from preparation courses...
...cringed when I read Thomas Cotton's "Defining Diversity Down" because of his reliance on the LSAT as a good measure of ability and knowledge. I don't know specifically about the LSAT, but if it is anything like the GRE it is a test written by and for white males, and so does not present, itself, an unbiased measure of ability...
...word, Texas race-normed its admissions process. Most admitted white and Asian-American students invariably came from the top of the national pool of law school applicants. Most black students came from the lower half of the national pool. In 1992, the median LSAT score of white admitted students was at the 91st percentile; the median LSAT score of black admitted students was at the 78th percentile. More than 600 whites with higher LSAT scores were denied admission before the first black was denied admission...