What’s up with law school admissions? Not minority admissions.
A report on national law school admissions trends that came from collaboration between the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) and the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic at the Columbia University School of Law suggests that even though law school capacities have increased in the past 15 years the trend for admission of Mexican-American and African-American students has taken the opposite trend.
Breaking down the minority admissions numbers…
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The report also suggests that the shut out rate, i.e. rate at which applicants do not receive admission to any law school they apply to, is higher amongst these minority populations.
What’s a law school to do?
The website for the survey does not leave a law school hanging in the midst of unsettling minority admissions numbers. It outlines steps that law school admissions programs can take to build diversity.
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