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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:40 AM Author: judgmental stimulating fortuitous meteor The 15% diversity statement boost clearly isn’t working -
Congratulations to everyone who made it onto Journal! I’m sure you all worked extremely hard for this achievement and I wish you all the very best in the work you’ll be doing for the next volume.
That being said, the lack of diversity on this masthead is truly astounding. I personally hold the entire YLJ board accountable for perpetuating a concerning dearth of diverse perspectives and experiences in legal academia.
The most diverse class in history was admitted to YLS last year. How can there be only ONE Black person and TWO Latinx people from the class of 2020 on this entire list? Together BLSA and LLSA make up about 30% of the rising 2L class, yet make up only 5% of the accepted first year editors from the class of 2020. And I know for a fact that plenty of brilliant BLSA and LLSA members applied so this certainly can’t just be chalked up to a lack of trying. I’ll also note that this is a DECREASE from the number of BLSA and LLSA members accepted last year AND the year before.
Diversity in law review membership is not only tied to opening up prestigious career opportunities down the line that minorities have typically been excluded from, it is also tied to having A BETTER JOURNAL, through more diversity in what you publish and more people to offer valuable diverse perspectives to the Journal’s work.
As someone who was not involved in the selection process, I obviously don’t have a complete picture of why there aren’t more POC on this masthead. However, I urge you to look critically at your recruitment efforts and your application process to identify exactly how and why POC are being excluded from the Journal in such staggering numbers. This is not in any way an accusation of malicious intent on the part of the YLJ Board, this is an indictment of a problem that is clearly systemic. Therefore, I also urge you to conduct and publicize a study about racial diversity on the Journal, including information on how diverse applicants have performed from as far back as you have data, and what steps the Journal is actively taking to remedy this disparity. I have the utmost confidence that the YLJ Board is capable of conducting this timely and critical investigation.
I truly wish this masthead all the best. However, I remain disappointed and disheartened by the glaring lack of diversity on this list. |
Date: July 19th, 2018 10:41 AM Author: low-t awkward really tough guy pozpig Was that an email sent internally to the law school? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458340) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:43 AM Author: judgmental stimulating fortuitous meteor Public listserv (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458354) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:41 AM Author: infuriating yarmulke double fault What % of the masthead is Jewish? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458347) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:49 AM Author: Sickened Dingle Berry "merit" is a defense to disparate impact for one group only. and that group is not "white people in general." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458401) |
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Date: July 26th, 2018 5:04 PM Author: amethyst dog poop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36502899) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:42 AM Author: Coiffed Sapphire Roast Beef Plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458350) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:43 AM Author: Ebony Comical Twinkling Uncleanness it never stops.
never. |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:47 AM Author: infuriating yarmulke double fault (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458388) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:45 AM Author: Haunting Vermilion Kitchen truly astounding! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458371) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:46 AM Author: Salmon Ape this certainly can’t just be chalked up to a lack of trying (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458378) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:47 AM Author: aromatic nighttime hospital Send a link to campus reform and the college fix (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458385) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:53 AM Author: plum galvanic gaping locale "conduct and publicize a study about racial diversity on the Journal, including information on how diverse applicants have performed from as far back as you have data" Lol this should be interesting |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 11:04 AM Author: Ebony Comical Twinkling Uncleanness people let themselves get bullied by herbs. i guess they deserve it for allowing it to happen. because THEY WILL capitulate. you know this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458504) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 11:32 AM Author: abusive abode popcorn.gif (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458682) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:24 PM Author: iridescent point they have juuuuust enough 1/2-1/2 or 1/4 black, 3/4 jewish members who did well to fudge the #s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459442) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 10:56 AM Author: excitant mint center milk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458457) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 11:03 AM Author: Orange travel guidebook The solution obviously is to create quotas, so that any non-white person on the journal can be assumed to have not gotten it on merit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458494) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 11:05 AM Author: Charismatic learning disabled gaming laptop Who sent that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458514) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 11:51 AM Author: Naked place of business is it an anonymous admission process based only on writing samples? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458789) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 11:59 AM Author: judgmental stimulating fortuitous meteor Anonymous bluebook exam, anonymous edit letter, and a 15% diversity statement boost (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36458842) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 12:45 PM Author: cerebral insanely creepy state electric furnace (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459162) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 12:46 PM Author: claret national what's the diversity statement boost -- you just have to write one? can white people write one? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459170) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 12:49 PM Author: plum galvanic gaping locale (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459180) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:15 PM Author: Slippery well-lubricated shitlib only about being a tenth generation holocaust survivor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459364) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:25 PM Author: iridescent point with aids and rickets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459447) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:07 PM Author: Exciting parlour Not a lib so trying to understand this: how does the person know that the people aren't actually diverse? Are there reported numbers? What about the white Mexicans, Argentinians, etc. who call them selves Latino? Has this person performed an ancestry.com test to make a call as to the exact racial composition of the Board? Also what about LGBTQ representation? Are libs willing to accept a disproportionately white law review board if all the whites happen to be gay? Muslim? I mean JFC this is mental illness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459290) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:13 PM Author: sick friendly grandma "how does the person know that the people aren't actually diverse?"
Straight forward application of stereotypes and other rough heuristics. |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:08 PM Author: Slippery well-lubricated shitlib i thought anyone could walk on the ylj. how dumb of a nigger do you have to be to fail at that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459296) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:09 PM Author: Ebony Comical Twinkling Uncleanness that's what i thought to. lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459300) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:09 PM Author: Red mental disorder Like everything, you need to tap into that pool of EXTRAORDINARY black intellectual talent that simply isn't aware of the law journal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459302) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:11 PM Author: sick friendly grandma "How can there be only ONE Black person and TWO Latinx people from the class of 2020 on this entire list?"
I don't know.
Can we take a look at their grades, writing samples, or whatever was in the application packet? |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:12 PM Author: Ebony Comical Twinkling Uncleanness refresh my memory:
the only way to get LR/LJ was to write on or did they do something to weigh grades?
because if they did just a write on and then gave a 15% boost to "anon" AA write on apps...i don't know what else they can do for you at FUCKING YALE LAW SCHOOL. |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:17 PM Author: Red mental disorder First semester is P/f. Second semester is p/f/honors (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459382) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:22 PM Author: Ebony Comical Twinkling Uncleanness so basically its all write on. lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459421) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:14 PM Author: useless jade ladyboy And I know for a fact that plenty of brilliant BLSA and LLSA members applied so this certainly can’t just be chalked up to a lack of trying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459348) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 6:00 PM Author: Charismatic learning disabled gaming laptop That is the most intellectually dishonest and disingenuous thing ive ever read (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36461349) |
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Date: July 26th, 2018 7:41 AM Author: Costumed flatulent lodge queen of the night (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36498985) |
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Date: July 26th, 2018 7:41 AM Author: Costumed flatulent lodge queen of the night Lol no, it certainly can't. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36498988) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:15 PM Author: abusive abode what are the odds this is richard sander pulling some false flag flame to study minority applications on their merit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459357) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:17 PM Author: sick friendly grandma Is blind grading racist? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36459381) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 1:24 PM Author: iridescent point Latinx
are libs really going to forcememe this shit?
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Date: July 26th, 2018 7:40 AM Author: bat shit crazy native "Signs point to yes." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36498983) |
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Date: July 26th, 2018 7:46 AM Author: Vigorous preventive strike bigger qs. are hispanics going to allow themselves to be defined by this hugely faggot term? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36499000) |
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Date: July 19th, 2018 6:05 PM Author: Racy lettuce lol, yale law is THIRTY percent black and mexican these days? is that even correct? when you add in asians/indians, it must barely be half white. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36461376) |
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Date: July 26th, 2018 1:18 AM Author: judgmental stimulating fortuitous meteor UPDATE: https://abovethelaw.com/2018/07/yale-law-school-grows-increasingly-diverse-yale-law-journal-takes-a-different-path/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36498460) |
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Date: July 26th, 2018 4:47 AM Author: sick friendly grandma I suspect Joe Patrice isn't very bright. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36498714) |
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Date: July 26th, 2018 7:43 AM Author: sinister area he's an editor at one of our most respected - revered - legal institutions (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36498994) |
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Date: July 26th, 2018 5:02 PM Author: judgmental stimulating fortuitous meteor Second Update:
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/07/yale-law-journal-responds-to-controversy-and-manages-to-make-things-worse/ |
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Date: July 26th, 2018 5:13 PM Author: Dashing hall reap the whirlwind (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36502957) |
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Date: July 26th, 2018 7:02 PM Author: sick friendly grandma Who are the Joe Patrice fans out there? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030090&forum_id=2#36503663) |