Who knew?--Law school is not for everyone

 Instapundit:

WHY IS THE CALIFORNIA BAR SO RACIST? Racial Disparities Persist In California Bar Exam Pass Rates: White: 72%, Asian: 66%, Hispanic: 61%, Black: 31%.

Actually, we looked into this kind of thing among our own graduates some years back, and it turns out that bar passage rates correlate pretty tightly with LSAT scores. This isn’t surprising: One’s a big stressful law-related exam, and the others a bigger, more stressful law-related exam. So if you admit a cohort with lower LSAT scores, that cohort will tend to have a lower bar passage rate. And it’s not linear — there’s a cutoff below which the passage rate plummets sharply. This is, in fact, well-known in legal academia. Many think it’s immoral to admit students at or below that cutoff because their chance of passing the bar is so low. But many schools do so anyway.

I remember my time in law school seeing people of various ethnicities disappear along the way.  The professors use the Socratic method that requires students to read and comprehend judicial decisions and be able to explain them.  You have to read and comprehend those decisions to be able to participate when the professor calls on you.  It is more difficult than just memorizing a string of facts. Typically the only test is the final exam at the end of a semester.  I agree with Glenn Reynolds that schools who admit people with little chance of passing the bar are doing those students no favor.

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