<p>Well, a bunch of you seem to have missed the point. Whatever you might think of the real purpose of the law school adcoms, I think we can all agree that what the purpose is not is to simply rubber-stamp what the numerical stats of what the various applicants will tell you to do. </p>
<p>Case in point, I think we can all agree that law-school admissions are very numbers-oriented. Jonri has said that, ariesathena has said that, in fact, everybody on this discussion forum has all agreed with the basic truth of that statement. Does anybody care to disagree? In fact, jonri has said on another thread that law-schools admissions are about 80% numerically oriented. </p>
<p>Hence, my point is, if you’re going to make law-school admissions ‘mostly’ numbers-oriented, you might as well make it purely numerical oriented. After all, if jonri is correct (and I think he is) that numbers comprise 80% of the admissions, then might as well make it 100% of the admissions. After all, honestly, how much difference is there between an admissions process that is 80% numbers and one that is 100% numbers? Is it really all that worthwhile to have human beings in the process if they’re there only to deal with that 20% of the admissions that are not numbers-based? </p>
<p>And so that gets back to a lot of the objections on this thread. It has been said that adcoms are out to put together a group of people who have diverse interests and experiences and who will facilitate lots of class discussion and all this high-falutin idealistic stuff. But that doesn’t jive with what we all know to be the truth - which is that law-school admissions are mostly based on high grades and high LSAT scores, unless one is saying that high grades and high test scores are necessarily correlated with diversity and good class discussions, which is not a proven assertion by any means. </p>
<p>Hence, here’s my take. If you believe that law school adcoms are really out to spread diversity and encourage class discussion, then you should be criticizing how admissions are currently run, with its strong orientation towards people with good stats, without much regard for diversity or anything of that nature. However, if you believe that the numbers-orientation of the current state of affairs is a good way to go, then you should believe that the process ought to be 100% numbers-oriented, and so human beings should be pulled out of the process completely. Either way, the current state of affairs deserves to be criticized.</p>