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1、St.John'sLawReviewVolume80Article4Issue1Volume80,Winter2006,Number1February2012TheMisuseoftheLSAT:DiscriminationAgainstBlacksandOtherMinoritiesinLawSchoolAdmissionsVernelliaR.RandallFollowthisandadditionalworksat:http://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/lawreviewRecommendedCitatio
2、nRandall,VernelliaR.(2012)"TheMisuseoftheLSAT:DiscriminationAgainstBlacksandOtherMinoritiesinLawSchoolAdmissions,"St.John'sLawReview:Vol.80:Iss.1,Article4.Availableat:http://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/lawreview/vol80/iss1/4ThisSymposiumisbroughttoyouforfreeandopenaccessbyth
3、eJournalsatSt.John'sLawScholarshipRepository.IthasbeenacceptedforinclusioninSt.John'sLawReviewbyanauthorizedadministratorofSt.John'sLawScholarshipRepository.Formoreinformation,pleasecontactcerjanm@stjohns.edu.THERONALDH.BROWNCENTERFORCIVILRIGHTSANDECONOMICDEVELOPMENTSYMPOSIU
4、MTHEMISUSEOFTHELSAT:DISCRIMINATIONAGAINSTBLACKSANDOTHERMINORITIESINLAWSCHOOLADMISSIONSVERNELLIAR.RANDALLtINTRODUCTIONEachyearwhentheU.S.News&WorldReportpublishesitscollegeanduniversityrankings,lawprofessorsanddeansscrambletolearniftheirinstitution'srankhasrisenorfallen.Lawsc
5、hoolsareengagingindisturbingpracticesineffortsto"raise"theirrank.IfaBlackorMexicanapplicantisdeniedadmissiontolawschool,thereisanexcellentpossibilitythatheorshemayhavebeendiscriminatedagainstbasedonrace.Itisnottheblatant"NoBlacksAllowed"kindofdiscrimination.Itisinstitutional
6、racism,whichishardertoeliminatebecauseitissoinsidious.Institutionalracismoccurswhereaninstitutionadoptsapolicy,practice,orprocedurethat,althoughitappearsneutral,hasadisproportionatelynegativeimpactonmembersofaracialorethnicminoritygroup.Inthecaseoflawschools,theinstitutional
7、racismistheuseoftheLawSchoolAdmissionsTest("LSAT')asthesoleordeterminingfactorinadmission,andspecifically,theuseofanLSATcut-offscorebelowwhichfew,ifany,candidatesareadmitted.ThismisuseoftheLSATisdevastatingtoallminorities,butisparticularlydevastatingforBlacksandLatinos.1Usin
8、gthetProfessorofLaw,UniversityofDaytonSchoolofLaw.1See,e.g.,ELIZABETHCHAMBL