brian: glenn lowry runs this blog he has tv show. you are at penn?my: and i was on it several times. brian: people can watch any of these. let's just watch these 48 seconds. [video clip] amy: here is a very inconvenient fact. i don't think i have ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class and rarely, rarely in the top half. i can think of one or two students in the top half in my first year course. what are we supposed to do about that? you're putting in front of this person a real upheld battle. and if they were better matched, it might be a better environment for them. that's the mismatch hypothesis, of course. we are not saying they shouldn't go to college. some of them shouldn't. brian: what do you mean by better match? amy: i mean that their incoming credentials, law school admission test score, and gpa, that is college grade average, which are the main parameters and criteria that admissions officers use for law school admissions, and law school admissions is highly quantitative or has been until very recently, the minor

brian: glenn lowry runs this blog he has tv show. you are at penn?: and i was on it several times. brian: people can watch any of these. let's just watch these 48 seconds. [video clip] amy: here is a very inconvenient fact. i don't think i have ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class and rarely, rarely in the top half. i can think of one or two students in the top half in my required first year course. what are we supposed to do about that? you're putting in front of this person a real uphill battle. and if they were better matched, it might be a better environment for them. that's the mismatch hypothesis, of course. we are not saying they shouldn't go to college. maybe some of them shouldn't. [end video clip] brian: what do you mean by "better match"? amy: i mean that their incoming credentials, law school admission test score, and gpa, that is college grade average, which are the main parameters and criteria that admissions officers use for law school admissions, and law school admissions is highly quantitative or has bee