"We still have a very unequal playing field out there, and in some ways it's becoming more unequal," Orfield said.
The survey results indicate that Orfield is not the only person who holds that belief. 80 percent of the survey's respondents support maintaining or strengthening existing minority admissions policies.
But the CCBA argues that such results are misleading, especially given the nature of the survey, which was conducted primarily over the telephone.
"Telephone surveys in matters of sexuality and matters of race are uniformly skewed," Blum said. "People respond to a race question much differently over the telephone than they do in private."
In addition, the organization says the questions were loaded to get the responses the surveyors desired.
"I think it's ironic that these questions were given to law students," said Marc Levin, executive director of CCBA. "Many of these questions, if they were presented in a courtroom, would be considered leading questions."
Blum said the question on admissions policies should have been more pointed.
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