also, it certainly doesnt show for any and every school, but someone posted a study on the schools in virginia, showing acceptance rate for URM's and non-urms with lower gpa's and lsat scores. also another item someone posted regarding the #'s for urm's at michigan.anyway, i think this really is not supposed to be the issue of this thread and if not for a bunch of people who always seem to attack anyone dsicussing any issue that has the statement "urm's gain admittance with lower scores" then this thread could be discussing something rather productive. how to stand out with low #'s, outside if being a urm.
Quote from: Chi-town Man on February 04, 2005, 02:12:45 PMQuote from: whiteytighty on February 04, 2005, 01:57:45 PMQuote from: amarain on February 04, 2005, 01:42:09 PMWhat exactly is "cultural capital" anyway?It's just another way of honoring diversity at an institution of higher learning.You ensure that kind of diversity by hiring:a queer latina marxista disabled marxistan Israel-denouncing jewish marxistan african american marxista transgendered marxista curious-bi mr. sensitive white guy marxistan asian-p-a marxistIt's actually pretty easy to make certain that a rainbow of heritages are honored at your institution. As long as the faculty is similarly diverse, the students will fall in line, and you can see the results of that 'education' right here on LSD.Cultural capital is not 'just another way of honoring diversity...' The term 'cultural capital' is a social phenomenon that has been researched and written about by a broad range of economists, philosophers, sociologists, political scientists, etc. There is a wealth of knowledge about this topic and describing it in such an overly-simplistic and superficial way like the above poster did fails to do the concept justice. Appeal to authority? Bravo!Actually, my pious friend, I am quite certain that armies of marxist economists, philosophers, et al. have come up with any number of crackpot 'intellectual' schemes to justify their laughable yet pernicious social engineering, of which race preferences are the only the most visible example. Others include the idea that the reason there are far fewer women in the hard sciences is entirely due to social construction, or that little boys should be discouraged from playing with violent toys.It all comes down to yet another project in the never-ending struggle to fortify the academic left's endless moral vanity, with little serious thought for what effect it has on the purported beneficiaries.
Quote from: whiteytighty on February 04, 2005, 01:57:45 PMQuote from: amarain on February 04, 2005, 01:42:09 PMWhat exactly is "cultural capital" anyway?It's just another way of honoring diversity at an institution of higher learning.You ensure that kind of diversity by hiring:a queer latina marxista disabled marxistan Israel-denouncing jewish marxistan african american marxista transgendered marxista curious-bi mr. sensitive white guy marxistan asian-p-a marxistIt's actually pretty easy to make certain that a rainbow of heritages are honored at your institution. As long as the faculty is similarly diverse, the students will fall in line, and you can see the results of that 'education' right here on LSD.Cultural capital is not 'just another way of honoring diversity...' The term 'cultural capital' is a social phenomenon that has been researched and written about by a broad range of economists, philosophers, sociologists, political scientists, etc. There is a wealth of knowledge about this topic and describing it in such an overly-simplistic and superficial way like the above poster did fails to do the concept justice.
Quote from: amarain on February 04, 2005, 01:42:09 PMWhat exactly is "cultural capital" anyway?It's just another way of honoring diversity at an institution of higher learning.You ensure that kind of diversity by hiring:a queer latina marxista disabled marxistan Israel-denouncing jewish marxistan african american marxista transgendered marxista curious-bi mr. sensitive white guy marxistan asian-p-a marxistIt's actually pretty easy to make certain that a rainbow of heritages are honored at your institution. As long as the faculty is similarly diverse, the students will fall in line, and you can see the results of that 'education' right here on LSD.
What exactly is "cultural capital" anyway?
What trends have you found in LSN that have led you to this conclusion. If you check out the BLSD you will notice that everyone has high GPAs and LSAT scores.
don't turn up your nose at me with your snooty lecture on the definition of 'cultural capital" you ignorant whitie. Nice try diverting the discussion from the REAL ISSUES: Like I was saying, just because you lack cultural capital and therefore would be a relatively boring addition to a law school class dynamic, doesn't mean you should poo-pooh the adcomms. In case you still don't get it, LS are looking for unique individuals who contribute culturally, in the broad meaning of the term, and hence the cultural capital they bring to the table is of the utmost value. Blacks and HIspanics as well as others do that to a higher degree than your usual run-of-the-mill Anglo whitie. They bring fresh perspectives, critical points of view to bear regarding traditional legal postures, and the all-important diversity factor.Stop hating on URMs cause of your own inadquacies and boring profiles.
What I have found is that if you take a school (I am thinking right now of NYU), then have it list by descending LSAT scores, for example, when you get to the low end of the range - say, 165 and under - every single person who has been accepted with a 165 or less is an URM. I'm not saying that this is a scientific method, just a trend that I noticed. As I said, if you have data to contradict this, I would be very interested in seeing it.
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