Do law schools give special consideration to minorities?
Yes. At some schools, special consideration may simply mean reading minority applications with heightened sensitivity; at other schools, formal procedures have been established for handling minority applications. At one school, for example, all applications are reviewed by at least one member of the admissions committee, and that reader must make a recommendation to the committee as a whole. Applications from individuals who claim an ethnic or minority group status are reviewed by two readers, each of whom must make an independent recommendation to the committee as a whole. As you probably are aware, however, courts have been asked to review the constitutionality of such procedures.
