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2 U. Tol. L. Rev. 377 (1970)
Preferential Admissions: An Unreal Solution to a Real Problem

handle is hein.journals/utol2 and id is 389 raw text is: PREFERENTIAL ADMISSIONS: AN UNREAL SOLUTION TO A REAL PROBLEM Clyde W. Summers* Preferential admissions standards do not significantly increase the total number of minority students able to obtain a legal education. Because the adm.issions standards of law schools form a continuum of acceptable LSA T scores and undergraduate grade averages, moving down a sliding scale, a student preferentially admitted to a highly selective school would be admissible under the normal standards of a less selective school. The only possible gain is among those minority students not normally admissible by the minimum standards of the least selective schools. There has been no showing that it is necessary or desirable to reduce the admissions standards at the lower end of the scale. Preferential admissions, the author contends, do not increase the opportunities for legal education of minority students, but instead create handicaps to professional training. It has also led to a wasteful use offinancial aid so as to reduce the total number of needy minority students who can go to law school. The author suggests a massive cooperative effort of all law schools to pool resources to meet more effectively the need for more minority lawyers. I. INTRODUCTION Two years ago, in a nationwide survey of all law schools to determine the number of minority students (defined as Negroes, Chicanos, Indians and Puerto Ricans) who were enrolled as law students, the question was asked, how many of the students, in the judgment of the Admissions Officer or person completing the questionnaire . . . would probably not have been admitted had * B.S., University of Illinois, 1939; J.D., University of Illinois, 1942; J.S.D., Columbia, 1952; LL.D., University of Louvain, 1966; Professor of Law, Yale Law School.

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