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Law schools, barred from considering “diversity” in admissions, adopt new approaches

Some are described here.  What, I wonder, prevents an applicant from writing a "perspective statement" (as HLS calls it) that creates the impression that he or she is a racial minority, when they are not?  I imagine this will start to happen, and unless an applicant flat out lies about something, I can't see that law schools can do anything about it.

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