SOUNDS LIKE THEY’RE UNFIT TO PRACTICE LAW: Roughly one-third of UC Berkeley law students claim ‘psychological’ disabilities.
Recent UC Berkeley Law graduate Andrew Testerman notes in a James G. Martin Center article that 37.5 percent of UC Berkeley Law students get some sort of disability accommodation, a figure greater than the total number of male students at the school.
Ninety-eight percent of those “have a primary or secondary diagnosis of ‘ADD/ADHD,’ ‘anxiety,’ or (somewhat less commonly) ‘depression.’”
By comparison, American community colleges have a disability rate of 3-4 percent, and U.S. senior citizens about 24 percent.
“Yet we are asked to believe that students at elite law schools are significantly more likely to be disabled” than the elderly, Testerman says.
Maybe it’s all that time spent at Berkeley.