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Re: Any frank advice for POC in law school
Do NOT self segregate.
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Mr_Chukes wrote:Where did you find that information?icetea wrote:looked up stats for the school I wanted to go to and only about 25 AA out of 650 students total. Guessing this is common unless I'm going to a hbcu
The school's law page gives a breakdown of race and ethnicity numbers, for all 1L, 2L, and 3L in a chart on their page.
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icetea wrote:looked up stats for the school I wanted to go to and only about 25 AA out of 650 students total. Guessing this is common unless I'm going to a hbcu
... Out of ALL the students in ALL three classes? That seems low.
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brinicolec wrote:icetea wrote:looked up stats for the school I wanted to go to and only about 25 AA out of 650 students total. Guessing this is common unless I'm going to a hbcu
... Out of ALL the students in ALL three classes? That seems low.
Yeah, they have it on their aba disclosure its actually 31 AA total. Last year 6 AA entered their freshman class, 10 AA men 21 AA women total for all three classes. Total percent of class 5%. That's black or AA so yeah.
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2012 was 90 AA idk what happen might have to ask around when I go for my visit at the end of the month.
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Idk if ABA disclosure categorizes like the census, but if so, you also have to consider some people might be under "Two or more races." If ABA disclosure is that way, I'd be under two or more races lolicetea wrote:brinicolec wrote:icetea wrote:looked up stats for the school I wanted to go to and only about 25 AA out of 650 students total. Guessing this is common unless I'm going to a hbcu
... Out of ALL the students in ALL three classes? That seems low.
Yeah, they have it on their aba disclosure its actually 31 AA total. Last year 6 AA entered their freshman class, 10 AA men 21 AA women total for all three classes. Total percent of class 5%. That's black or AA so yeah.
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\YBF-W wrote:Lmao you had to. I sometimes wonder if Nigerians (and perhaps other west Africans) don't quite get the same boost, since they may actually be overrepresented in the black urm category... At least it seems that way from stalking blsa pages.Mr_Chukes wrote:Don't forget Nigerians are most educated ethnic group in America lol.brinicolec wrote:Corporate America in general is a white male-dominated field.snowball2 wrote:You need to look at the stats, women comprise 50% of all law graduates and are close to 50% of biglaw associate hires but are below (in many cases well below) 20% representation as partners. It will take at least a century to get the partner numbers near parity at the rate women are being promoted to partner.guybourdin wrote:I definitely don't disagree with the spirit of this, but there were more female 1Ls last year than males.renc56 wrote:I realize that law school is mostly a white male profession.
It's very frustrating/upsetting - especially since black women are the most highly educated demographic in the country right now.
We dont at certain institutions - in particular one n the T13. But I'm not going to say the name out loud. I do know for a FACT they they dont consider Nigerians the same as AA
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Re: Any frank advice for POC in law school
One of my lawyer friends sent me this because I'm guessing one of her former colleagues was represented in the article: https://bol.bna.com/top-black-lawyers-s ... -of-color/
It seems pretty common sense (promote yourself, network) but before TLS I wrongly assumed that affinity groups might be looked down upon.
It seems pretty common sense (promote yourself, network) but before TLS I wrongly assumed that affinity groups might be looked down upon.