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Affirmative action is no favor.(bar examinations)(Brief Article)
Writing in the Stanford Law Review, UCLA professor Richard Sander calculates that by methodically placing black students one or two slots ahead of what they are prepared for, preferential admissions policies set them up for failure.
Without preferences, black students would fall into whatever tier of school their grades and scores qualified them for, just like students of other races. Their drop-out and bar exam failure rates would then become much more normal--instead of extremely elevated, as they are today.
Accelerating black students into elite schools for which they are underqualified has the perverse effect of producing fewer black lawyers, ...
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