Quote: (08-24-2013 02:25 PM)Hades Wrote:
I also support lawyers having a required minimum on the LSAT, the last thing we need is more lawyers.
Quote: (08-24-2013 02:37 PM)MHaes Wrote:
Germany really has a great educational system set up. If you do not pass certain requirements in middle school, you do not get to continue on the college track.
It's probably illegal for the government to implement that. Ethnic groups in America vary in test scores and passing rates, so setting entrance requirements based on them would yield a system that looks racially segregated.
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Very Few Blacks Score at the Highest Levels of the Law School Admission Test
In 1998 the mean score of white students taking the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) was 151.96. (The LSAT is graded on a scoring scale of 120 to 180.) The mean score for black students taking the test that year was 141.80, about 17 percent lower than the mean score of whites.
The latest data shows a slight improvement for both blacks and whites, but there was no progress in closing the racial scoring gap. In 2004 the mean score for whites on the LSAT was 152.47. For blacks, the mean score was 142.43. The 10 point, or 17 percent, scoring gap has remained constant throughout the period with only very minor fluctuations.
Students seeking admission to the nation's highest-ranked law schools such as Yale, Harvard, and Stanford have a mean LSAT score of about 170. Data obtained by JBHE from the Law School Admission Council shows that very few blacks nationwide score at this level.
In 2004, 10,370 blacks took the LSAT examination. Only 29 blacks, or 0.3 percent of all LSAT test takers, scored 170 or above. In contrast, more than 1,900 white test takers scored 170 or above on the LSAT. They made up 3.1 percent of all white test takers. Thus whites were more than 10 times as likely as blacks to score 170 or above on the LSAT. There were 66 times as many whites as blacks who scored 170 or above on the test.
Even if we drop the scoring level to 165, a level equal to the mean score of students enrolling at law schools ranked in the top 10 nationwide but not at the very top, we still find very few blacks. There were 108 blacks scoring 165 or better on the LSAT in 2004. They made up 1 percent of all black test takers. For whites, there were 6,689 test takers who scored 165 or above. They made up 10.6 percent of all white students who took the LSAT examination.
The nation's top law schools could fill their classes exclusively with students who scored 165 or above on the LSAT. But if they were to do so, these law schools would have almost no black students.
Source . Whatever an applicant's race, you're doing him a disservice if you admit him to law school when there are high odds he'll fail the bar exam.
Employment checks for criminal records have come under similar government scrutiny: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...55020.html