The accrediting council for the American Bar Association (ABA) voted to no longer require the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) for law school applications in an effort to increase racial diversity efforts, but experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the move could do the opposite...
- The American Bar Association voted to no longer require the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), a college admissions test, in the name of racial diversity but experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation the move could decrease efforts.
- The LSAT can enhance racial diversity efforts by highlighting students who excel on the test but do not have high GPAs.
- “The most obvious thing that will happen is that there may be one less metric that applicants can use to show their ability and to differentiate themselves from others in a way obviously related to what they will actually be required to do in law school. Ironically, it is not inconceivable that this scenario could hurt most underrepresented minorities,” Devon Westhill, president of Center for Equal Opportunity, a group that works to promote colorblind equal opportunity, told the DCNF.
Ken Notes:Looks like many schools will still require the test and even more will include it in the evaluation process.
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