What If 158/159th of Best Legal Minds Aren't Black?

Should we care that 99% of the best legal thinkers aren't black?

Law school admissions tend to be less holistic than undergraduate admissions. Law schools tend to be extremely ruthless about LSAT scores and GPAs.

The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is graded from 120 to 180, with a planned midpoint of 150 and a standard deviation of 10. So a 170 would be, under the original plan, the 97.7th percentile and a perfect 180 the 99.9th percentile.

It used to be that a 175 was a spectacular score. However, there has been a lot of LSAT test score inflation in the 2020s:

From 2015 thru 2020, the number of law school applicants scoring at least 175 numbered between 407 and 719 per annum. But then came the cultural revolution of 2020 and various steps were taken to make the LSAT easier. The number of top scorers soared to almost 1,500.

And then in August 2024, the Logic Games section was dropped. Because when do lawyers ever need to play games involving logic? So the number of high scorers reached 2,089 in the law school class starting in September 2025.

The number of law schools with its average student scoring in the 170s has soared from 5 to 28.

I can find black scores of 175 to 180 from 2021 onward, but not before:

Self-identified blacks, pure blacks or mixed blacks, comprised 1.6% of all those scoring 175-180 during the fairly inflated years of 2021-2023. In contrast, during ultra-inflated 2025, blacks comprised 2.4% of the highest scorers.

What is a more realistic black percentage?

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