Here's an interesting article on the effects of racial preferences on black lawyers. There were a couple of interesting quotes in the article:
Once in law school, "around 50 percent of black students [end up] in the bottom tenth of the class; and around two-thirds of black students are in the bottom fifth." Only 8 percent of black students place in the top half of their classes.
So 92% of blacks are in the bottom half of their law school class? The other quote is
The solid pillars of Sander's statistical analysis are that 1) black students do just as well in law school as whites with comparable undergraduate grades and LSAT scores; 2) this fact proves that blacks' academic difficulties stem from racial preferences, not from any racial problems in law schools;
Hmmmm. So if you take someone who's actually qualified to be in a given law school then they do just fine. I just can't believe these results suprise anyone. Racial preferences may be good or bad but we certainly need to understand their impact on the people they are supposed to be helping.