re: American Bar Association drops LSAT requirement for Law School admissions

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Equal opportunity should be what we strive for.

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right. But the left no longer believes in equality, its all about equity which is equal outcomes.

After arguing for decades that equal outcomes were not the goal.

Do this mean I 2 can Getz into the school where dem bitches teach how to be a bearstir? Awesome.

College football player acceptance route.

Caribbean law schools are the best in the world

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If they dropped the LSAT because it reduces diversity in the profession, what do you think will happen to the bar exam, which already has big racial gaps in pass rates, that will get even wider once you stop using the LSAT and accelerate admissions based on race?

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No clue.

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This is at best a half-truth because the ABA monitored LSATs and compared them to bar pass rates and got on schools that admitted too many low-LSAT students and had low bar pass rates. Some schools even lost accreditation over this. (Also, guess what-- low LSAT scores do correlate with low bar pass rates.)

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Massive red herring. As far as I'm aware, the ABA gives zero fricks about your incoming LSAT scores as long as your Bar passage rate stays up. So while LSAT scores and Bar passage rates might correlate, that's not particularly relevant, for a very specific reason: even if a law school drops the LSAT requirement, the ABA is still going to threaten their accreditation if their Bar passage rates are too low.

It's not like the ABA is going to say "well, your Bar passage rate is in the shitter, but you don't require the LSAT anymore, so I guess you're ok..."

A decade ago, if a law school had low Bar passage rates, their accreditation would be threatened. Next year, if a law school has a low Bar passage rate, their accreditation will be threatened. Now, because the LSAT is correlated with Bar passage rates, that would serve as an incentive for law schools to continue requiring, or at least favoring, them. But I've yet to see any explanation for how this actually moves the needle, beyond an amorphous "it gives admission committees cover", but that cuts both ways.

This will lead to a shitload more people who have no business being in law school fail out and owe a shitload in student loans that they will want us to pay for. Great!

Are they greasing the pole for Kim Kardassian to become a Lawyer?

We are entering a Bizzaro World where you can't trust your doctors or lawyers to be at least minimum levels of competent.

MD programs are dropping the MCAT, the BAR dropping LSAT. MD schools actively enrolling minorities using entirely different criteria. Law Schools doing the same.

This is going to be a weird, freaky country. I feel sorry for my child and future children; and theirs as well

I wonder what the position of the Wakanda Bar Association is on standardized admission testing?