ROBERT STEINBUCH: A Different Take On Why Law Schools Are Not Admitting More Black Students. “For example, in data from 40 law schools gathered from their 2005-2007 admissions cycles, the median odds ratio on black compared to white admissions was 150 – meaning black applicants had far greater odds of admission than white applicants. At a large majority of these law schools, if you examine what we can call the ‘credential point’ where white applicant had a 10 percent chance of admission, comparable black applicants had a better than 80 percent chance of admission. Here’s the bottom line: the claim that law schools are generally biased against black applicants relative to white applicants is not only incorrect, it’s ridiculous. When black and white applicants with similar credentials apply to any given law school, black applicants are far more likely to gain admission than white applicants, and even more likely to be admitted when compared to Asian applicants. (The latter phenomenon is known in the literature as the ‘Asian Tax.’ A more apt label would be a ‘soft quota’ that caps Asian admissions to law schools.)”