Episode 6: Can we bridge the LSAT diversity gap?

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Ben and I analyze UVA professor Alex Johnson's "African-Americans, Law Schools and the LSAT," a surprisingly candid look behind the scenes of the LSAT and law school admissions. Why do average scores of African Americans and Latinos trail the general population by such a wide margin? What does this mean for their admissions chances? Is there anything we can do to bridge this gap? Ben and I announce our search for one student of color who we can coach toward the September 2014 LSAT. Please email us if you're interested!

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to episode six of the Thinking El-Sat podcast in foggy San Francisco. I'm Nathan Fox with me in Washington DC is
0:26.0	Ben Olson. How you doing Ben? I'm doing good. It's actually pretty cool today
0:30.7	and I'm at my house which is in northern Virginia and surrounded by
0:36.2	trees which I think also makes things cooler so.
0:39.3	Very nice you got the kids running around in the background?
0:42.3	Yeah although I just told them to go down to the basement because I don't...
0:45.0	I tell them, don't come in this room and they say, okay, yeah, no problem.
0:50.0	And then like two minutes later they're banging on the door saying,
0:52.0	well you have an argument, I'm like, I don't want to resolve this argument right now.
0:56.0	They're good kids, I'm sure it'll be fine.
0:59.0	So today on the show, we're going to discuss a YouTube video entitled African Americans
1:05.6	Law Schools and the L-Sat with Professor Alex Johnson. Ben, you turned beyond to this a couple
1:12.1	episodes ago and I had a chance to watch it and
1:15.2	you've had a chance to re-watch it and I think we both agree that there's tons of food for
1:22.1	thought in this article that it would interest not only people
1:25.8	who are specifically interested in diversity issues but just pretty much anybody who's thinking
1:31.9	about applying to law school or even in law school.
1:34.1	Do you agree with that?
1:35.4	Oh, certainly.
1:36.4	And actually when I was just watching it again this morning, I was surprised by how candid he was
1:42.1	with the numbers. Like he kept saying I don't remember what it
1:46.0	was exactly but it seems like or I don't know what it is now but here's the
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