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Date: June 30th, 2025 2:13 PM Author: Demanding comical bawdyhouse filthpig https://x.com/aaronsibarium/status/1939699882350031235 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49060825) |
Date: June 30th, 2025 2:31 PM Author: awkward kitty The irresistible desire to write down and make explicit the forbidden thing that we all know you’re doing anyway tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49060864) |
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Date: June 30th, 2025 2:32 PM Author: coral boltzmann Idk about you guys but I am pretty mad at libs these days (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49060868) |
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Date: June 30th, 2025 2:39 PM Author: Pearly stead goal in life AA is not enough. Now we have to give them a FAQ on playing the race card?
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Date: July 29th, 2025 7:16 AM Author: Fragrant Talking Box Office Linda McMahon has given Duke Law Journal six months to clean up its racist policies or get sued.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Launches Probe of Duke Law Journal, Warns Medical School Could Be Next Probe comes in the wake of a Free Beacon report on the journal’s racial preferences
The Department of Education on Monday launched an investigation into Duke University and its flagship law review, citing a Washington Free Beacon report on the journal’s use of racial preferences to select editors.
The department will investigate the Duke Law Journal’s 2024 decision to award extra points to applicants who mentioned race and gender in their personal statements. Candidates could earn up to 10 points for discussing their "membership in an underrepresented group," according to the grading rubric for the essays, and an additional 3-5 points for holding "a leadership position in an affinity group."
Such criteria likely violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the department said in a press release. The rubric was included in a packet sent to the law school’s affinity groups, which were told not to share the materials with other students. Duke has not commented publicly on whether the criteria were ever shared with the whole law school.
The department also sent a separate letter to the university expressing concern about the use of racial preferences at Duke Medical School, whose promotion guidelines for faculty reward doctors for recruiting and mentoring "BIPOC" trainees. The letter, sent jointly with the Department of Health and Human Services, asks Duke to create a "Merit and Civil Rights Committee" that will work with the government to resolve alleged civil rights violations.
If no resolution is reached after six months, the letter warns, "the federal government will commence enforcement proceedings as appropriate." A separate HHS press release says that the agency’s office of civil rights has already begun an investigation into Duke Health.
"Blatantly discriminatory practices that are illegal under the Constitution, antidiscrimination law, and Supreme Court precedent have become all too common in our educational institutions," said Education Secretary Linda McMahon. "If Duke illegally gives preferential treatment to law journal or medical school applicants based on those students’ immutable characteristics, that is an affront not only to civil rights law, but to the meritocratic character of academic excellence."
Duke did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The probe of Duke comes as the Trump administration also investigates Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review over that journal’s use of racial preferences. The Harvard probe is likewise based on materials published by the Free Beacon, including more than 450 memos from the journal’s article selection process.
In some of those memos, editors suggested killing or advancing pieces based on the race of the author. In others, they complained that articles did not cite enough women and minorities in the footnotes.
The probes are part of a broader campaign against elite law reviews that is being waged by both public and private actors. Represented by former Texas solicitor general Jonathan Mitchell, a group of students and professors sued the Michigan Law Review last month over the journal’s alleged use of racial preferences. Similar complaints have been filed against law reviews at Northwestern and NYU.
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Date: July 29th, 2025 11:45 AM Author: Bateful angry mexican just sue (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49140155) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 11:21 AM Author: shaky electric juggernaut arent these journals incorporated and endowed? the law school doesnt run them iirc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49140096) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 11:46 AM Author: Crimson wonderful sanctuary mediation *founds Duke Law School White Pride Quarterly* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49140161) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 1:06 PM Author: elite titillating indian lodge woah there's STEM AA. poli sci shitheads done here. this is the most fascinating part of all this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49140327) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 1:52 PM Author: Bateful angry mexican welcome to 1980 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49140485) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 1:55 PM Author: elite titillating indian lodge there's never been stem AA in LS admissions. in fact, stem bros have a harder time bc their gpas are lower, unless they knew they were going to law school and tried to inflate their gpa. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49140502) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 2:35 PM Author: Fragrant Talking Box Office Duke was the site of the famous study showing that diversity admits leave STEM in massive numbers and switch to soft majors. if you're black and want a STEM career, you should go to an HBCU for that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49140638) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 3:10 PM Author: elite titillating indian lodge link? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49140714) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 4:57 PM Author: Fragrant Talking Box Office https://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/stem.pdf?ref=quillette.com
btw, the principal author was the key witness in the USDC proceedings, on the losing side, of the recent AA case but his views triumphed at SCOTUS. |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 3:29 PM Author: Hairless gas station it's why gw is known to produce so many ip lawyers, that's about where people from stem majors tend of land because of gpa (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49140774) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 3:30 PM Author: elite titillating indian lodge nah, gw used to "specialize" in ip when ppl bought the flame about practice are rankings in ls. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49140779) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 3:38 PM Author: Hairless gas station i assumed they 'specialized' in it as a result of having lots of stem admits, not the other way around. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49140797) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 3:44 PM Author: elite titillating indian lodge still, there's no evidence they lowered their standards to get more stem majors to enroll.
lots of stem majors probably backdoored into GW through the night program while they worked as patent agents in the daytime, and night programs generally have lower standards for admission. |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 4:42 PM Author: Hairless gas station i don't think they lowered their standards at all. my thought is that stem majors have lower gpa's, on average, and the 'top' ones wind up with numbers that land them at gw vs something ranked higher. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49140973) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 4:53 PM Author: elite titillating indian lodge again, some of this could be because of the night program / patent agent pipeline. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49141012) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 4:56 PM Author: Marvelous mental disorder conventional wisdom 15-20 years ago when many of us were applying to law school is that STEM gets a bit of a boost in LS admissions to recognize lower GPAs in those majors and because LS know STEM bros are good for jobs at graduation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49141021) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 4:57 PM Author: shaky electric juggernaut in the post USWNR era they almost certaintly get an even bigger bump (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49141024) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 4:58 PM Author: elite titillating indian lodge hmm, ive been here for decades and never saw that mentioned on here once. this would be contrary to the notion that rankings matter and its all about the numers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744655&forum_id=2#49141027) |