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Most law schools don't release their admissions data. The University of Arizona law school and the University of Nebraska are exceptions. Look at these charts:
IN all cases the lowest 25% of white applicants scored higher than the highest 25% of black applicants. In 2007, there is NO OVERLAP between black and Asian/white scores. Not a single Asian/white applicant scored as low as the highest scoring black applicant
So the question becomes... are the scores lower because the black applicants did not have equal access or opportunity to quality education? I think MistressNomad pointed out that was the likely case. Now... what we don't have are LSAT results from the same groups of kids, of different ethnic backgrounds which went to the same schools.
I've basically seen two major arguments that explain such results:
1.) That blacks and minorities do not have access to quality educational schools, therefore their standardized tests are lower than others.
2.) That standardized tests are racially biased, therefore do not take into account the diversity of the students taking the tests which cause the student to make mistakes, whereas if the questions took into account the racial differences, the students tests scores would be higher.