Granted the doctored photo above caused the University of Wisconsin some embarrassment nearly ten years ago, but limited access to higher education continues to remain an issue for minority students. In this case law school is yet another example of racial inequality embedded into modern social structures. This article highlights data which demonstrates that access to Law school for racial and ethnic minorities, most specially African-American and Mexican-American students has stayed nearly constant since 1990.
While law schools added about 3,000 seats for first-year students from 1993 to 2008, both the percentage and the number of black and Mexican-American law students declined in that period, according to a study by a Columbia Law School professor.
and more from the new york times,
The number of black and Mexican-American students applying to law school has been relatively constant, or growing slightly, for two decades. But from 2003 to 2008, 61 percent of black applicants and 46 percent of Mexican-American applicants were denied acceptance at all of the law schools to which they applied, compared with 34 percent of white applicants.
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