I know — it reads like a satirical headline from The Babylon Bee, right?
The American Bar Association (ABA), the national voice of the legal profession, which prides itself on “serving the public and the profession by promoting justice, professional excellence, and respect for the law,” will no longer require the administering of the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) for law school applications, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. I can solve this oxymoronic problem in six words:
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
According to the WSJ, the ABA’s accrediting council, comprised of lawyers, law professors, and administrators voted 15-1 to drop the requirement that law school applicants take — and pass — the LSAT or any other “valid and reliable admission test,” amid a debate about whether the tests — wait for it — help or hurt diversity in admissions.
Sounds like a great idea, right? Next, let’s drop the minimum requirements for physics and other science majors — mathematics, as well. I’m sure the left can ring up the ChiComs and they’ll gladly climb aboard, too. I mean, why wouldn’t they? No, wait.
Individual law schools are still free to require the LSAT or any reliable admission test, according to the ABA. The policy change will take effect beginning for students applying in fall 2025.
What legal organization, presumably committed to producing top-notch attorneys, would promote such a thing in the first place? The Clinical Legal Education Association, of course, a group focused on “promoting justice and diversity within the legal foundation,” argued that dropping the LSAT requirement would allow law schools to individually address “the persistent lack of racial diversity” within their institutions, according to the WSJ.
Let’s simplify the above: individual law schools that choose to focus on diversity over potential top-notch law students can simply choose not to require a “valid and reliable admission test” for enrollment. What could possibly go wrong? And let me be clear: top-notch law students can be white, black, brown, purple, or glow-in-the-dark — race should have zero to do with admission standards.
Lowering the bar, literally
It will allow under educated to apply and take up a slot from someone that is actually qualified
No no no…..anyone at anytime can apply for a job. If they are not qualifed “normally” they wont make the referral list. Why? Because they are not qualified. Most retain and hospitality position require true qualifications. Team lead, management type and specific trade or professional positions habe requirements/qualifications for positions. Just because they are eliminating a worthless test doesnt mean katie bar the door. Still requires someone to make a selection. If mgmt is that stupid, one they shouldnt be in management, two after the selection fails the selectee and that manager should be fired by that business.
The only loser here is that damn company who for many decades made money for a test that is irrelevant. Consumer always beware and dont be sheep.