Tuesday, September 12, 2000 Houston, Texas Volume 66, Issue 16 Forum allows HUBS to network, bid Full moon festival a success Study denounces LSAT Law school entrance exam may discriminate against qualified minorities with biased questions Deanna Sheffield Daily Cougar Staff Law schools within the United States have been consistently admitting smaller percentages of minorities in comparison to white applicants with the same grade-point averages because of the alleged misuse of the Law School Admission Test, one study says. "Students of color, primarily African-American students, have a significantly lower admission rate, even with affirmative action," said William Kidder, a researcher who conducted the study for Testing for the Public, an educational research organization in Berkeley, Calif. Kidder's findings show the cumulative acceptance rate is 72 percent for Anglo-Americans, 46 percent for African-Americans, 61 percent for Chicanos, 60 percent for Hispanics, 69 percent for Asian-Americans and 62 percent for Native-Americans. The LSAT or the "higher education poll tax" disadvantages minorities because it excludes otherwise qualified minority students, Kidder said. | |
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