California Bar Grapples With ‘Predatory’ Schools, Exam Chaos
A California Bar Trustee called state-accredited and unaccredited law schools “predatory” following a report that students pass the bar exam at a significantly lower rates than American Bar Association-accredited programs, Maia Spoto reports.
- Bar exam pass rates are 9% for unaccredited law schools and 21% for California accredited law schools — sharply lower than the 67% pass rate for ABA-approved schools, according to data presented at a Thursday meeting. About half of students leave state-accredited and unaccredited schools after their first year.
- “The words that come into my head are predatory and ...
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