re: Apparently Racism Abounds at LSU Law - HuffPost Article Penned by Student

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I always found it disturbing that the school felt they needed to provide a remedial course at a professional school. Is this common at other law schools?

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no idea. it became an issue when i was there when it was discovered. people were told, basically, that LSU was under threats to lose its accreditation by the ABA. it's not even that LSU is discriminating against minorities, professional grad schools do the exact opposite across the board.

so harvard recruits UT-Austin-level students. UT-Austin recruits LSU-level students. LSU has to recruit Southern-level students. in order to ensure that these unqualified students don't fail out (and threaten accreditation), the school has to cater to them early and often. there is a program BEFORE the semester starts as well for incoming students. there was a student in my legal writing class who had problems keeping up who i was trying to help who told me about them. she told me knowing she was leaving so she didn't care about the secrecy.