look at the following table from the
work of Richard Sander and Stuart
Taylor, Mismatch: How Affirmative
Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to
Help, and Why Universities Won’t
Admit It (Basic Books, 2012). It shows
where African-Americans rank in their
law school classes compared with white
students. The class ranks run from 1 to
10, with 1 being the bottom tenth of the
class and 10 being the top.
RankBlackWhiteOther
- 51.6 5.6 14.8
- 19.8 7.2 20.0
- 11.1 9.2 13.4
- 4.0 10.2 11.5
- 5.6 10.6 8.9