... groups consistently score notably lower than do white students. Even blacks whose parents have the same level of education and income as a comparable sample of whites have, on average, scored 120 points lower on the test. (Cloud 42.) At every level of SAT scoring blacks earn ... skill that can be learned through coaching class. If a student can afford such coaching and instructional books, they will ultimately do better. Hundreds of the College Board's own statistics illustrate a nearly linear association between the family income and SAT scores. "Each rise in earnings (measured in $10,...

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... five multiple-choice sections with a total of about 101 questions. These sections include logical reasoning, analytical reasoning, reading comprehension, a writing sample, and an experimental section, which does not count toward the final score of the law school applicant. The writing sample is not scored either, but it is sent to every law school to which an aspiring law student applies. Law schools ... undergraduate class and the upper 5 percent of the LSAT pool. The class that entered in 1999 numbered 93 women and 85 men, over half of whom had been out of college for two or more year...

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