PUB DATE 2003-04-00

This study was designed to address questions of differential prediction of law school grades for various racial/ethnic minority subgroups. Differential prediction was evaluated by comparing the predicted and actual law school first-year grade point averages (FYAs) for various racial/ethnic subgroups within individual law schools based on regression equations commonly used in the admission process. The sample was drawn from the 1996, 1997, and 1998 entering law school classes, using data from the Law School Admission Council sponsored Correlation Studies. Data from 167 law schools, each of which enrolled 10 or more first-year students who identified themselves as Asian American, Black, or Latino were analyzed and reported. Statistical regression analyses were carried out to predict FYA using Law School Admission Test (LSAT) alone, undergraduate grade point average (UGPA) alone, and the best predictive linear combination of these two variables. Analyses were carried out separately for each school, resulting in thre