Posted on 11/18/2022 2:39:59 PM PST by karpov
The arm of the American Bar Association that accredits U.S. law schools on Friday voted to eliminate the longstanding requirement that schools use the Law School Admission Test or other standardized test when admitting students.
But under a last-minute revision, the rule change will not go into effect until the fall of 2025—giving law schools time to plan for new ways to admit students.
The ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar overwhelmingly voted to do away with its testing mandate after years of debate and over the objections of nearly 60 law school deans who warned such a move could harm the goal of diversifying the legal profession.
The organizations that design both the LSAT and the GRE also urged the council on Friday not to drop the rule, warning that it could lead to law schools admitting students who are unlikely to succeed despite incurring debt to attend.
Councilmember Daniel Thies noted that no other professional school accreditors require the use of admissions test and that has not led to a “race to the bottom” to bring in unqualified students. Existing limits on student attrition and a requirement that at least 75% of a school’s graduates pass the bar exam offer further guardrails, he said.
“The goal is to open up innovation—finding other ways that might complement the current admissions processes to move us ahead in legal education on diversity and a host of other considerations,” Thies said.
The ABA standards currently require law schools to use a “valid and reliable test” in admissions decisions. For years, the only standardized test that automatically met that criteria was the LSAT, though the ABA in November 2021 added the GRE as an acceptable alternative.
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Abolish the ABA and go back to allowing those who serve an apprenticeship to sit for the bar exam. That would save taxpayers a lot of money on failed lawyers.
I don’t think Asians are having a problem.
What a joke. Lowering standards is required for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE). And America will DIE because of it.
Hey, at least lawyers aren’t flying your plane, or performing surgery on you. They’re trashing standards for doctors and pilots, too.
Remember the lawyer in Idiocracy? “I like money...”
Great if we thought lawyers were all scum now just wait, every minority lawyer will be representing minorities to fleece whitie
My aunt served several judges as as a court reporter for over 50 years from the 1930s. At least two of them never went to law school, but “read for the law” like Lincoln and passed the bar exam.
I found it amusing that she would sometimes whisper to the judges after they made a bad call, correcting them on the law. After decades in the courtroom, she often knew the law better than they did.
So now they'll just look at skin color.
Next,the AMA will vote to end medical schools’ MCAT requirement. At that time med students of certain ethnicities and skin tones will believe that the hip bone’s connected to the neck bone.
All the announcers on the Artemis launch were women. Every single bubble-headed, giggly, unserious one of them. It was disgusting. It really makes you wonder how much they benefitted from some AA program for women to get through engineering school.
Guess if a person can self identity their gender then they can self identity as a lawyer......
If I need a doctor, a lawyer, a protector I care not about his color. The man that cut into my eyes to put lenses in due to cataracts was Chinese American. I used him because my optometrist a white guy said he did his and is the best. My former dentist was black. My GI man was Indonesian. Most of my other care was by whites. I care not about color. I care a great deal about one’s abilities.
Just give POCs any degree they desire without having to take any classes or tests as long as they sign up for the student loans and hand them over to the “universities.”
Couldn't agree more.
That’s because of standards that lead to competence. I don’t care about race, national origin or faith. I do care about competence.
“His shit’s all f’d up, an he talks like a fag...”
This allows the schools to in effect use a quota system.
No conservative practicing attorney I know belongs to the woke ABA.
If not for a surprisingly good score on the LSAT, I would not have been admitted to a top-10 elite law school. I’m glad no one figured out that I was Choctaw until my third year.
CA actually still has an apprentice path to becoming a lawyer. Less than a couple dozen people do it every year, basically bc the mentor lawyer has to want to spend enough time on this to be effective. Most lawyers don’t want to do it.
When you eliminate objective standards, it all comes down to politics and/or bootlicking.
The SAT was originally put in place to help poor kids with ability get into top universities.
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