Swarthmore prelaw vs Brown prelaw

Descartesz
Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:56:22 +0000

My first link to this list was provided by Wikipedia, although I am not sure exactly wherein.

My understanding is (and I implore anyone who knows otherwise to correct me) that this list of ratings came to light in an admissions discrimination case against Berkeley. Because the values were used in an explicit calculation to adjust GPA’s and then used to directly compare candidates, and because the list favors “exclusive colleges”, it was considered a piece of evidence that Berkeley’s admission practices were discriminatory. The court eventually agreed with this, hence it is now “illegal”.

I believe, however, the Law School Admission Council (who run the LSAT) still makes such undergraduate institution comparison data available to its member schools, but its use has probably been finessed so as to accord with the current anti-discrimination rulings. At least I have found references to such data from law school profs posting on the internet, although I can’t find the actual data itself.