napsXfactsXsnacks t1_isb3icm wrote on October 14, 2022 at 4:40 PM

Reply to comment by Spackledgoat in Accepted (2021) - A school in Louisiana is celebrated for putting traditionally underserved students into Ivy League colleges, but an investigation uncovers its charismatic founder's controversial methods (CC) [01:22:56] by thesecondfire

Or it may suggest that white students have greater access to things like bar prep courses, are less financially stressed out and overburdened by work and family expectations and have more time dedicated to prep. That number only proves your hypothesis if you’re unwilling to take any other factors into account.

Edit: it’s also historically accurate to say that the SAT is a test that was literally designed by a eugenicist to prove that white people are smarter than Black people. College admissions look at a wide array of factors and having a high SAT score isn’t the end all be all. Nonblack kids also have the financial advantage of prep courses on that number as well.

Spackledgoat t1_iscufnp wrote on October 14, 2022 at 11:58 PM

Yeah, these qualified students who just completed no less then 7 years of post secondary education and hold a professional doctorate are being held back by bar prep availability.

Even if it’s just how prepared the students are, the average first year black law student has a GPA in the bottom 10% of their class. We can pretend that these students just have a tough life (even though, if I recall correctly, a large majority of black law students are from families with incomes in the top half of household incomes in the US and are 3x over represented than the general population for having parents with terminal degrees), or maybe the schools are admitting unqualified students to boost diversity numbers.

There’s a whole “mismatch theory” regarding the negative effects of putting unqualified students into academic environments and the negative effects of doing so. Really fascinating stuff.