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The Faculty Lounge
Florida Coastal Dean Admits That I Was Right. . .Sort Of
Above the Law recently reported on a bizarre 9-page letter written by Florida Coastal Law School Dean Scott DeVito. The letter reports on the school’s poor bar pass rate on…
The Faculty Lounge
Statistics Matter
In my last post, I discussed the need to consider both sides of the ratio when examining bar passage rates. Looking only at a particular law school’s passage without examining…
Law Deans on Legal Education Blog
Should LSAC and the ABA Demand Fealty to the LSAT (or any other test)?
By David Yellen
As reported by the National Law Journal, the Law School Admissions Council is contemplating expelling the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law from LSAC membership. This is in response to…
The Faculty Lounge
It Ain’t Getting Prettier, Whittier
Back on December 4, Whittier Law Professor Sheldon Lyke wrote a post here on TFL which was sharply critical of Law School Transparency. In fact, he accused Law School Transparency…
The Faculty Lounge
Law School Transparency (LST) Responds to Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Press Release
Law School Transparency’s recent report, the 2015 State of Legal Education, led to numerous articles in the national media about the trend of law schools admitting large numbers of poorly…
Education Law Prof Blog
OCR Finds Princeton Does Not Discriminate Against Asian Americans and Offers a Preview of Race Neutral Analysis for Fisher II
By Derek Black
The Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education (OCR) completed its compliance review of Princeton's admission practice last week. Princeton, like Harvard and the University of North Carolina,…
Education Law Prof Blog
Asian–American Group’s Complaint Attacks Harvard’s Admissions Standards
A group representing Asian-American applicants to elite colleges filed a complaint Friday with the Departments of Justice and Education alleging that Harvard University and other private elite colleges discriminate against…
The Faculty Lounge
LSAT Policy of Limiting Test-Takers to Law School Applicants
An anonymous correspondent writes to remind us that the LSAT requires all test-takers to make the following declaration: "I certify that I am the examinee whose name appears on this…
Education Law Prof Blog
In a Holistic Review of Holistic Admissions, Fifth Circuit Upholds University of Texas Admission Plan
By Derek Black
For those who missed it, the 5th Circuit issued its opinion late yesterday in the remand from the Supreme Court in Fisher v. Texas. The Court of Appeals, by a…
The Right Coast
TaxProf Blog: Cheating: An Insider’s Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA
Because of California's Proposition 209, public universities such as UCLA cannot use race as a factor in admissions. However, as this book shows, UCLA gives significant preferences to African Americans,…