Harvard Law School professor defends admitting students who probably won't pass the bar.

"Feldman finds this "growing conventional wisdom" that schools shouldn't "admit students who are statistically uncertain to pass the bar" deeply troublesome. "This view assumes that it's up to the law schools to make the threshold decision paternalistically, 'saving' naive college graduates from pursuing the dream of becoming lawyers when there’s no guarantee that they'll succeed," he writes. "It treats standardized test scores as destiny and correlation-based studies as gospel."

In Feldman's view, denying applicants with bottom-basement LSAT scores the opportunity to attend law school at great personal expense would amount to the "infantalization" of young college graduates. "Do we really need to protect people from trying to achieve their dreams?" he asks. Looked at the right way, low bar-passage rates could even be considered a positive sign. "If all law students were passing the bar, it would be a sign that law schools weren't taking a chance on students at the margin of the capacity to succeed," Feldman writes...."