Affirmative Action Backfires

Some very sobering statistics and arguments about the implications of affirmative action in terms of law school admissions.  I had no idea that 43% of African-American law school students NEVER pass the bar exam in any state, even after multiple tries...

Three years ago, UCLA law professor Richard Sander published an explosive, fact-based study of the consequences of affirmative action in American law schools in the Stanford Law Review. Most of his findings were  grim, and they caused dismay among many of the champions of affirmative action  -- and indeed, among those who were not.
  
Easily the most startling conclusion of his research: Mr.  Sander calculated that there are fewer black attorneys today than there would have been if law schools had practiced color-blind admissions -- about  7.9% fewer by his reckoning. He identified the culprit as the practice of admitting minority students to schools for which they are inadequately prepared. In essence, they have been "matched" to the wrong  school.

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Affirmative Action Backfires
By GAIL HERIOT
August 24, 2007; Page A15
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118792252575507571.html

Three years ago, UCLA law professor Richard Sander published an explosive, fact-based study of the consequences of affirmative action in American law schools in the Stanford Law Review. Most of his findings were grim, and they caused dismay among many of the champions of affirmative action -- and indeed, among those who were not.