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1 Jun 2022 Conversations with Tyler Jamal Greene on Reconceiving Rights
“I don’t know that I would eliminate it entirely, but the idea that people should be admitted to law school, 50 percent or 60 percent or something based on LSAT scores, seems to me likely to be problematic.”
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- Jamal Greene
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- 1 Jun 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Sure. How would you improve the LSAT system? I think I would just use it less. I don’t know that I would eliminate it entirely, but the idea that people should be admitted to law school, 50 percent or 60 percent or something based on LSAT scores, seems to me likely to be problematic. There are problems on either end if you get rid of tests like that. People who are very good at succeeding at things are going to succeed in other ways, and so there is a certain transparency about the LSAT that I think is maybe not something you’d want to fully eliminate. But it does bother me that your performance on a three-hour test has such a profound influence on which schools one is able to go to. It would surprise me if there are not better ways of doing it, but I’m not deep enough in admissions offices to launch a strong criticism. Do you have a sense there’s a better predictor of success as a lawyer?…
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