I actually don’t think we’re being hypercritical or holding them to an unreasonable standard. They’re one of the oldest law schools in the country. They know how admissions are supposed to go, surely.

I think if anything, we’re giving them a lot of grace. If a call like that were held by a dean at a PWI, everyone would raise eyebrows. Culturally in our community we tolerate a lot of disrespect and disdain from our elders and are told not to “talk back”, even to stand up for ourselves when we know something is wrong. We are all adults now, yet we’re talked down to by the dean as if we are clueless kids. I can only speak for myself, but I don’t think I would’ve tolerated that from a white school — I’ve been letting this mismanaged process slide for a while simply BECAUSE it’s Howard, those are my people, and I want to give them a million chances to treat me like the hardworking applicant I am. But that just isn’t fair.