Sacrilege – as a recent graduate from a good law school, and as a volunteer in my school’s admissions department for six months, I can tell you first hand that law schools are decreasing the amount of BTL students they accept. NYU, Brookyln Law, Columbia, Fordham Law Schools have all eliminated BTL students or only accept a handful if the LSAT score is above average. The theory is that the law schools want to diversify the student body (there are hundreds of BTL applications each year) and many [not all]BTL student lack english reading and writing skills. While they may have the brains from learning in yeshiva, they lack the formal secular education required for success in law school and the legal profession. In my law school class, one student would frequently use “yeshivish” or yiddish words to the professor. Need i say more?
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