ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the institutions’ relationships with race, using the professors as a proxy for the institutions. It considers whether significant differences exist across students’ experiences at each institution. The chapter suggests that Sander’s suggestions will only lead to maintaining societal inequalities. It also considers each of students maligned because a believer in Sander’s mismatch theory would have to conclude that these lawyers were inappropriately attending their law school of choice. Prospective students look for evidence of diversity, especially where diversity is most lacking— in elite or more-selective law schools. Students’ connections to fellow students, graduates, and faculty provide significant benefits. Students are able to plan each strategic step in their ascension because the characteristics of their mentor virtually match their own. In opposition, a discordant relationship has less value than a concordant relationship because commonalities are decreased. From time immortal, law schools have relied upon the Socratic Method for teaching law students how to “think like lawyers.”
