<p>What is the rough racial breakdown at top 3 LS (Harvard, Yale, Stanford)?</p>
<p>Is it overwhelmingly white (at least 95%)? Or relatively diverse? Or similar to the top 3's undergraduate programs? </p>
<p>just curious...</p>
<p>You're kidding, right? I can't even think of a single institution of higher education in the country that has anywhere close to 95% white student body. Moreover, I don't think the numbers are too hard to look up. Off the top of my head, I'm fairly certain that HYS all have roughly at least 30% minority student bodies, divided fairly evenly between Asian-Americans, African-Americans, and Latino-Americans.</p>
<p>hey crnchycereal, thanks for the reply!</p>
<p>Crunchy, I had a hard time believing that any of the top three law schools had classes with "at least" 30% minorities equally divided among African-Americans, Hispanics and Asian-Americans. </p>
<p>Out of curiousity, I searched on Yale and Harvard's websites. (I've just never had much luck finding anything on Stanford's.) </p>
<p>For the class of 2009 at Yale Law, the % of minorities is 27.5%--my understanding is that's a record high. </p>
<p>During the '06-'07 academic year, the percentage of minority students at all ABA-accredited law schools was 21.6%. </p>
<p>I can't find any break down, but for lawyers who are practicing, 9.7% of lawyers are minorities; 3.9% are African-Americans, 3.3% are Hispanics. However, every source I could find said that among law students "Asian-Americans are the fastest growing minority group"--but I couldn't find a number or percentage. </p>
<p>If any one can find any other data--post the Supreme Court's decision re the use of race-based admissions at UMichigan especially --please post it.</p>
<p>I did find the percentage for Stanford--the Class of 2010, admitted in 2007, is 33.3% minority. I expected S to have the highest percentage of minorities,given its location in California, which has a high percentage of Asian-American residents. I could not find any breakdown on the Stanford site, i.e., Asian, African-American, and Hispanic/Latino.</p>
<p>So the numbers are higher than I thought, at least at Yale and Stanford.</p>
<p>According to data from last year, minorities make up 28.3% (13.3% of whom were Asian) of Yale's entire student body. It's 30% (10.8% Asian) for Harvard and 33% (13.4% Asian) for Stanford. This is all available in the ABA's Official</a> Guide to law schools.</p>
<p>Yes, vindication! Just take it as a sign of how absurdly seriously I took the law school admissions process and how closely I studied the U.S. News and World Report guide to law schools.</p>
<p>Speaking from experience, I would take all of those statistics with a grain of salt. I was born in Venezuela, but my mom is from Italy and my dad is from Spain. My parents migrated to Venezuela just after they got married, and we then moved to the US when I was 5 years old. My dad is one of the whitest people that I know, however, my mom is from Sicily, and has a darker skin tone, which I inherited.</p>
<p>What do you know - I'm "classified" by the US government as Hispanic (which was not of our doing). Coincidentally, Hispanics are a under represented minority in colleges.</p>
<p>Jeez, i guess law school is going to be a lesson in diversity to me, coming from a college >80% white.</p>