What is it about?
This article follows the first 27 years of minority admissions at the University of Michigan Law School and compares the career outcomes of Michigan’s admitees, many of whom benefitted from diversity preferences, with those of the schools white alumni. Despite substantial differences in accepted academic entering credentials the school’s minority graduates enjoyed great career success and fared no worse than its 2hite graduates on such measures as income and career satisfaction.
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This is one of a small number of studies to. look at how students who benefit from diversity preferences in profession school admissions fare over their later careers. The data set , which combines alumni survey data with law school record data, is particularly rich and great care was taken to assess and dispose of the possibility that survey nonresponse might explain the results found.
Perspectives
The results of this study are consistent with most of the best social science research on the effects of affirmative action on students who enjoy diversity preferences. The results are inconsistent with the “mismatch hypothesis” that critics of affirmative action regularly cite in briefs before the Supreme Court when the constitutionality of educational affirmative action is at issue.
Richard Lempert
University of Michigan
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This page is a summary of: Michigan's Minority Graduates in Practice: The River Runs Through Law School, Law & Social Inquiry, January 2000, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4469.2000.tb00967.x.
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