Are Asians URM at Law Schools?

dcfca
Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:33:57 +0000

Fine, I’ll get us back on topic.



Buh? I thought for all extents and purposes Asians were equivalent to white people in law school admissions (at least inside the top 14). Their awesome work ethic doesn’t help them very much on the LSAT which is more intuitive and I’ve read article saying they score slightly lower to “white” applicants for the “affluent” asians and 5 points lower for SouthEast Asians and Filipinos on average.



Why are you talking about asians as if their intelligence only stems from their ‘awesome work ethic’? Considering in 2004 the difference between whites and asians was only .5 and as you said, the test is more intuitive, wouldn’t you think the difference would be bigger if these asians lacked the intuitive knowledge that whites have?

Considering the test contains a reading comprehension section, don’t you think it would be more logical to assume that the kids taking this exam might be immigrants/grew up in a family with parents who speak a foreign language/had english as a second language which would have lead to a minor difference such as this?

You make it seem as if asians are only intelligent due to this ‘awesome work ethic’.