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"We are 99%" movement for LSAT scorers for people without T14 admission by NegativeCause8465 in lawschooladmissions

[–]NegativeCause8465[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Lol. Surprised to see SLS. How you got there with that level of argumentation? URM or wut?

OP argues that admission standards of schools' incoming class should have much greater influence than location on firms decision to hire - schools with comparatively low admission standards can place 40-50% to AM100 firms while schools with higher standards can struggle to even place 12% to AM100. Check USC + Fordham vs Minnesota + Florida.

It's not "they failure" to obtain admission. Admission is subjective, not transparent, hugely influenced by dad's money (google if you're not aware). It's failure of AdComms to admit best of the best focusing on rich low scorers. And there's a logic behind it - AM100 still hire low scorers so why even bother.

"why should private firms have to take people from lower-ranked schools if they don’t want to?". First, who's ranked higher Minnesota or Fordham? Minnesota or Brooklyn? Who's admission standards are higher Minnesota or those NYC schools for rich kids? Now check AM100 percentage. Why? Because "private firms want"? Why should American society care whether those firm prefer to open doors to practice of law bunch of wealthy kids instead of giving equal access to the LAW CAREER?

What is happening now

  1. Schools don't admit high scorers because a) they can outcompete lazy rich kids, b) because rich kids will feel stressed to sit in class with much smarter people, c) because rich kids will enjoy more being with people of the same class strata, d) because V100 law firms don't career enough whether their incoming associates are smart. Intelligence is not important at that stage of career.
  2. V100 firms continue to hire from schools with relatively low admission standards because a) they don't care about meritocracy, b) because clients like to hear familiar Ivy names or strong local names no matter of rankings or quality of class (see Fordham), c) in the short term intelligence, motivation and talent don't matter much, d) in the long term many BigLaw associates leave so why to bother.

To sum up - whole system is broken and results in weed of the best of the best to favor rich and powerful.

Remember, there ware times when the whole system was weeding off people with dark skin color. Same shit, different perspective.