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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would like to see accidents of birth removed from admissions consideration. [/quote]

Like natural intelligence? [/quote]

No like the Jared Kushners of the world[/quote]

Or the Barack Obamas, who got into Harvard Law with a below 3.3 average from Columbia (having oddly transferred there from Occidental).  Or George W Bushes, for that matter. [/quote]

Citation, please.  Or what you typed is bullshit.

[b]He graduated Magna Cum Laude and edited the Law review, and went on to have a coupla pretty important jobs, so clearly the admissions committee was correct in admitting him, right?[/quote][/b]

Nevertheless, he entered HLS from Columbia with only a 3.3.  I had to have a 4.0 at a time when a 4.0 meant valedictorian or salutatorian.  I was the former.  He made the Law Review not on grades but by write-on with AA points added on as well.  He was voted in as Editor NOT by grades, which is how it was done when I attended.  And he was viewed as a very weak Editor.  He did not even go on to clerk.  Judges know who is write-on HLS law review and who is not.  He made magna because Harvard had shifted from blind grading to open grading so he got brownie points in class for being AA.   It once meant something to be on HLS law review by grades and to make editor that way.  It now means very little. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/us/first-black-elected-to-head-harvard-s-law-review.html[/quote]

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