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- When comparing schools for whiteness, it was
assumed that all schools pulled from the national pool of
applications for the Whiteness
Ranking, from the regional pool of applications for the regional
rankings. That is, all schools application pool actually
reflected 67.6% white. To the
extent that a school is not truly a regional, state
or local school then % total whiteness and racial disparities when compared to availability
of applicants could be skewed.
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- To the extent that "unknown" is a significant number of
minorities, than the percentage of whites will be skewed upwarded
and the calculations will be not be valid for that particular
school.
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- However, the State LSAC application pool nor the Law School
age population represent the actual application pool for a
specific school. A school's actual application pool could be very
different.
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- State LSAC Application pool reflects the number of
persons in the national LSAC pool who listed the named state as
their home. While all the applicants from a particular state may not
have applied to law school in their state, the number provides a
good idea of the available pool.
- So, for example, Texas Tech has 85.7%
white students. In 2002 there was 6797 LSAC applications from the state
of Texas. Of those applications, 4043 or 59.5% were from white
applicants . Consequently, the disparity (excess whiteness)
between whiteness in the student body and in the state application pool is
26.2 percentage points. That is, based on the LSAC applications from the state, only
59.5% of Texas Tech Student body should be white.
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For those who object to the
methodology here,
based on the idea that it does not take into consideration the
"pool" of qualified applicants, see
Chapter 2 on LSAT
and Discrimination. As practiced in most law schools, the law school
admission process is not an issue of who can do law school and
be a competent lawyer. It is mostly a cherry-picking exercise, over
applicants who all are capable of being good lawyers if legal education would
educate instead of sort.
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