Beyond race and ethnicity, law schools look for applicants who have faced adversity because of their age, disability, immigrant status, socioeconomic background or sexual orientation.

Beyond race and ethnicity, law schools look for applicants who have faced adversity because of their age, disability, immigrant status, socioeconomic background or sexual orientation.

"It makes schools a soft target right now for predators," said Claudine Wiant, director of programming at the Beau Biden Foundation. Wiant, who works with schools to provide child abuse prevention ...