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Law Practice,
State Bar & Bar Associations

Nov. 4, 2019

Lawyers and law students: Your LSAT score does not define you

I attended and graduated from elite institutions of higher education (Johns Hopkins University and Michigan Law). That does not make me a better lawyer, nor a better person.

Frank H. Wu

President Designate
Queens College

Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.

I attended and graduated from elite institutions of higher education (Johns Hopkins University and Michigan Law). That does not make me a better lawyer, nor a better person. To the contrary, I would regard someone who claimed their affiliation with selective, prestigious schools made them superior to have revealed a character flaw of the worst order. Yet I realize that such a protest itself is a privilege, what contemporary culture has deemed to be a “humblebrag,” bec...

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