Following up on a couple of previous posts on my paper on the relationship between African American student enrollment and U.S. News peer assessment scores, I want to focus for a moment on Asian American student enrollment. Most of the paper discusses the relationship between African American student enrollment and U.S. News peer assessment scores, but at the very end I looked briefly at Hispanic and Asian American student enrollment and U.S. News peer assessment scores and also percentage of minority faculty and U.S. News peer assessment scores.
There is a moderate and statistically significant relationship (r = .40, p < .001) between Asian American student enrollment and U.S. News peer assessment scores. The figure at the upper right plots all 191 schools with 2012 U.S. News peer assessment scores against their percentage Asian American student enrollment. This, you may recall, is a lot higher correlation than exists for African American student enrollment (except when you look at the top 16 schools -- in that case r = .46).
I hope there will continue to be some discussion of the possibilites for -- and desirability of -- including some measure (or measures) related to student diversity as part of the U.S. News law school rankings.
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