Arizona Law Schools Discriminate
Two new studies released today by the Center for Equal Opportunity document evidence of severe discrimination based on race and ethnicity in law school admissions at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University. At both law schools, African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latinos are admitted with significantly lower undergraduate grade-point averages and LSAT scores than whites and, again to a lesser extent, Asians.
The study is based on data supplied by the universities themselves. The study was prepared by Dr. Althea Nagai, a resident fellow at CEO, and can be viewed on the organization’s website, www.ceousa.org . The executive summaries of the studies are attached.
CEO chairman Linda Chavez said: “Racial discrimination in university admissions is always appalling. But the degree of discrimination we have found here, at both schools but especially at Arizona State, is off the charts.” She noted that the odds ratio favoring African Americans over whites was 250 to 1 at the University of Arizona and 1115 to 1 at Arizona State. “As a result, nearly a thousand white students during the years we studied were denied admission even though they had higher undergraduate GPAs and LSATs than the average African American student who was admitted–and over a hundred Asian and Latino students were in the same boat with them.”
Roger Clegg is the President and General Counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity at the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO). This article is excerpted from a CEO press release released on October 1, 2008.
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