U.S. News says the law schools withdrawing from its ranking system are in prep mode for the end of affirmative action.
I'm reading "Defending Its Rankings, U.S. News Takes Aim at Top Law Schools/The publication accuses Yale and other schools of trying to evade accountability — and sidestep a likely end to affirmative action — by opting out of its ratings" (NYT).
“Some law deans are already exploring ways to sidestep any restrictive ruling by reducing their emphasis on test scores and grades — criteria used in our rankings,” Eric J. Gertler, the executive chairman and chief executive of U.S. News, wrote in an opinion essay on Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal....
It's a little hard to figure out the causality. If law schools can't directly take race into account, why would they make an adjustment that puts less emphasis on test scores and grades?
Here's the WSJ op-ed. It's quite short. Here's the part that is relevant to the Supreme Court case (with the quote used in the NYT boldfaced):
[E]lite schools object to our use of a common data set for all schools because our rankings are something they can't control and they don't want to be held accountable by an independent third party. There is added urgency as the Supreme Court considers a pair of cases on affirmative action that could change admission norms. Some law deans are already exploring ways to sidestep any restrictive ruling by reducing their emphasis on test scores and grades -- criteria used in our rankings. By refusing to participate, elite schools are opting out of an important discussion about what constitutes the best education for students, while implying that excellence and important goals like diversity are mutually exclusive.
Notice how he slid from the topic of "admission norms" — who will be the students — to delivering "the best education for students" — how to serve the students.
Gertler's piece is quite crudely written — easy to read but impossible to understand!
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