[CatoRenasci]

My class at UCLA Law School was about 10% black and 10% hispanic. At one point, an assistant to the Dean of Admissions told me that of that group, only one of the blacks and two of the hispanics would have been admitted on the same standards as the other 80% of the class (non-hispanic whites and asians). From my experiences in class and on law review, the difference in the ability of the minority students to do the work was marked, in all but three or four cases. Bar passage rates told a similar story.

[AnAmericanMother]

I taught at our local law school for awhile as an adjunct in the legal writing course for 1st years.

I'm afraid that the majority of the "affirmative action" students just were not up to standard. I taught one exception who was a smart, hard-working, motivated black guy. But in the five years that I taught there, he was the only one. I had probably 6-8 black students in my small class over that time -- their writing and analytical skills were just not up to par, and the gap was noticeable. There was one student who was actually sub-literate - couldn't spell, couldn't write a simple declarative English sentence, couldn't organize a paper. And she had a massive chip on her shoulder - I was failing her because she was black and I was white, yada yada yada. But there was no way even an affirmative-action administration could excuse her absolute inability to function in a law school. She disappeared after one semester.

Why the h@ll anybody admitted her is the mystery of the ages. There was no way she could take a degree, and all the experience was likely to do was reinforce her beliefs in the evil of the Man. And make life hard for the other black students by convincing people that affirmative action admits the totally incompetent (rather than just the somewhat below par, which was my general experience.)