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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Daily Read: Malcolm Gladwell on Ivy League Admissions
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
Writing in the New Yorker in 2005, Malcolm Gladwell (pictured) argued that the fuss over admissions is best understood as consumerist: ivy league schools are a "luxury brand" - -…
International Law Prof Blog
Law Schools Should Have This Problem . . .
The Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had too large an entering class. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the school ended up offering some…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Letter has been sent to Yale
Earlier on this blog, I discussed a Yale blog post that discounts recommendations for transfer students from legal writing professors. Amy Vorenberg, Kris Tiscione, and Lisa McElroy with her team at Drexel have now sent a letter to…
The Legal Whiteboard
Comparison of 2010 and 2011 Enrollment and Profile Data Among Law Schools
A recent posting by Paul McGreal at The Faculty Lounge and an article in the National Law Journal by Matt Leichter (discussed in July here on the Legal Whiteboard) raise…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Do Harvard and Princeton Discriminate Against Asian American Applicants?
Daniel Golden writes for Bloomberg: The U.S. Education Department is probing complaints that Harvard University and Princeton University discriminate against Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions.The department’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating…
The Faculty Lounge
More on Illinois Law Class Credentials
Following up on Dan's Second Shoe Drops At Illinois: Four Years Of Fudged Admissions Data, which has the details of the actual and reported LSAT and GPA medians of Illinois…
The Faculty Lounge
The Race Card at Longhorn U.
Yesterday a Fifth Circuit panel (judges Emilio Garza, Carolyn King, and Patrick Higginbotham) heard arguments in a case that addresses whether the consideration of race by the University of Texas…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Did a State University Barter Jobs for Law School Grads in Exchange for Law School Admission of Under-Qualified, Politically Connected Students?
By legalwriting
This isn't strictly about legal writing but it is of great interest to legal writing professors and other professors who work in state schools. All law schools should consider admission…
The Right Coast
Guts at Yale Tom Smith
You got in. You've got a right to slack. Funny.
The Right Coast
Wall Street Journal Publishing Company Favors Race-Based Admissions? Gail Heriot
A few months ago I posted something about the New York TImes' insistence that Ivy League admissions decisions ought to be based solely on SAT scores and other strictly academic…