<p>@bluebayou - do law schools partake in AA?</p>
<p>I was told that at a UC school they can’t factor in race, but my experiences at one have proven otherwise…</p>
<p>I would hate to get a median LSAT and gpa and get tossed because someone else was black or mexican</p>
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<p>I assume you didn’t follow any of the links I posted? How do I know they don’t act holistically? Because either there is just an astounding correlation between “good life stories” and high GPAs and LSATs, or they don’t care. Law schools want a high US News ranking because their consumer base (prospective law students) has shown it will slavishly follow US News rank with their tuition dollars. The US News does not give rankings for “good life stories.” That’s why you see such nice, clear bands in the LST data I provided for you. </p>
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<p>I’m not arguing that law schools shouldn’t evaluate things holistically, I’m arguing that they don’t. Law schools are businesses. They make money by selling teacher hours to law students. They make more money the higher they go in the US News rankings. It’s great that there are beautiful snowflakes out there who, if considered holistically, would make for excellent classmates, but unless they make the law school more money it does not care. </p>
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<p>Please go back and take a look at the data I provided you. I linked you to the 2011 admissions cycle since it’s the last complete cycle, but you can scroll back several years if you like. “Good life stories” is a really easy theory to test, because if it’s true you won’t see the strict bands that my “high GPA and LSAT” theory predicts. </p>
<p>@chemistrywarrior: Law schools do provide an admissions boost for under represented minorities, although with Fisher v. UT outstanding I don’t know how long they’ll be able to do it. As for whether you’d hate it, I don’t see how you’d either know or why you should care. It’s not like you can change it. Suck it up and move on.</p>
<p>One of the reasons that both undergraduate and law schools in California spout the holistic line is that it is a way to do covert AA, since AA is already illegal under California law.</p>
<p>^^that is correct, emm1. And it takes the life stories to make it work.</p>