California July 2007 Bar Exam Statistics
The California Bar publishes a decent amount of stats about the passage rates of various groups taking the bar exam. In-state ABA approved law schools perform better than out-of-state ABA approved law schools. Men perform better than women. First time test takes are more than three times more likely to pass than those repeating the test. White students perform best, followed by Asian students, Hispanic students and black students.
The best performance by a school with more than 10 people taking the exam was by Stanford, followed by a two way tie between the University of Virginia (who knew?) and Yale (Harvard appears to be in sixth).
20% of people taking the exam from Georgetown fail on the first attempt.
January 25th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
so that’s only 1 in five. sit next to 4 really stupid hoyas.
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January 25th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
What would that do?
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January 25th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
No, that’s 20% FAILURE. He only needs one stupid Hoya out of every five.
Do people draw any conclusions based on these stats? The obvious one is that repeat Bar-taking may not be the best use of your time. But I wouldn’t touch the racial ones with a ten-foot pole without more data.
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January 26th, 2008 at 1:28 am
you missed my point. if he sits with 4 stupid hoyas, he’s guaranteed that at least one of THEM will fail instead of him. he’s stacking the deck with idiots to ensure that he’s not the most idiotic of the 5.
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