Popa – I believe they thought that releasing such data would be too politically sensitive. Obviously it doesn’t look very good for a law school to be conducting studies about the performance of particular religious groups, though I personally don’t have any problem with it.
The phenomenon you describe with respect to Fordham’s BTL dynamic, is correct, I think, but I found from my own limited anecdotal experience at Fordham (admittedly because of my relationship with the Dean, my view may have been a bit more overarching than others) that this dynamic is generally true of all of Fordham’s student population. a very large part of the student body is comprised of people who “just missed” Columbia or NYU, either due to borderline LSAT scores, or just barely inadequate GPAs or “softs.” I beleive this is likely true of a number of other schools – Emory (where I am now doing graduate law degrees), BU, UCLA, and some others – that don’t have any particular draw as first choices for anyone, but often end up as the fall backs for people who just missed getting into T14 schools and want to be in a particular geographic area.