The Law Schools With the Worst First-Time Bar Exam Pass Rates
Above the Law takes a look at the law schools whose recent graduates did the worst on the 2018 exam — 21 law schools where less than 50 percent of first-time takers were able to pass the test.
“For the past few years, bar exam pass rates across the country have plummeted, but there’s hope on the horizon with the news that the average national score on the July 2019 administration of the Multistate Bar Exam climbed to a 141.1, fresh off a 34-year low set in 2018,” writes Above the Law senior editor Staci Zaretsky.
Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California, has the dubious distinction of leading the bottom-up list, with the lowest first-try pass rate: 21.84 percent.
Read the Above the Law article.
