How to get into law school with low GPA and low standardized test scores
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Getting into law school is just the first step in becoming a lawyer. Most of the tier 4 dumpster fire law schools ruthlessly cull the bottom 1/3 of the class each semester. Then the few who graduate have to pass the bar exam. For example, Texas Southern University, a historically black college that Leah above would be in the running for, had a 54% bar pass rate in the most recent bar exam that the BLE published stats on. Then you have to get a job. The same law school that I mentioned before, TSU, had 89 of its 171 graduates in a full time, long term, bar passage required job 9 months after graduation. Also, the scholarships that are given out generally have GPA requirements that most students find difficult to maintain because of how the school pegs the median GPA and the grading curves.
People with LSAT scores below 150 (which is the median) just should not go to law school. The deck is just stacked too far against those who have scores in that range. Sure, some will become successful attorneys, but most will end up like this guy.
EDIT: I just now realized that the videos were from different women. Well at least they're in good company together in their mistakes.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure the rules don't apply to black women. Consider that even though they might graduate at the bottom of their class and require multiple attempts to pass the Bar exam, they will still benefit hugely from affirmative action in the job market and be handed top tier jobs they wouldn't remotely qualify for on paper.
Bear in mind the United States Vice President was one of these people:
Typically a June admission date means you failed the 1st test, since the 1st test passers get admitted in November.
FYI becoming a DA is INSANELY competitive if you are a white or asian male. You'd probably need to be top 5%. But for a "black" woman like Harris? Literally just show up and you're hired.
Hallinan was white. Harris won because she was a black woman and used her black status to turn the election into being about throwing out the old white man in favor of the young black woman, and got a bunch of power brokers and celebrities to help her.
She just "black woman'd" herself from high school all the way up to Vice President.
I personally think that most of her career success can be attributed to:
She spread her legs and leveraged Willie Brown to win her various positions. Assembly Speaker was far more powerful back then than it is now, probably equal to that of Governor, because all legislation had to go through Brown. And he wasn't subject to term limits like they have now.
But I do agree that the legal profession bends itself into pretzels trying to accommodate black people generally, and black women especially.
I knew two people who I am pretty sure are literally mentally retarded who went to law school with me
It won't be long before they lower the bar exam difficulty
It won't make a difference because the exam score is a measure of how well you did compared to other test takers. A 120 means 99.9% did better than you, a 150 means 50% did better than you and 50% did worse, and a 180 means 99.9% did worse than you.
Law schools are going to get around this by just not accepting LSAT scores (which some are already starting to do) and weighing all of the admissions decisions on soft application metrics, like whether they went to a HBCU or majored in feminist dance theory over say electrical engineering from Cal Tech.
They are changing the exam in a few years. From what I understand some subjects like secured transactions and family law are being taken off. Haven't bothered looking at the specifics because I'll be done several years before that takes effect
before they lower the difficulty- for some.