New York Law School Rankings by 2007 Bar Exam Results

Here are the school-by-school data from the July 2007 bar exam compiled by the New York Law Journal in Law Schools Report Record Gains in Bar Exam Pass Rate, by Thomas Adcock, as well as each school's 2007 U.S. News & World Report ranking [click on chart to enlarge]:

Several interesting aspects of the rankings:

• Cardozo cracked the Top 3, ousting the much higher ranked Cornell (#52 v. #13).  This result is particularly anomalous, given the Princeton Review data reporting that Cornell students study more than students at the other 169 law schools surveyed.
• New York Law School cracked the Top 5, ousting the much higher ranked Fordham (Tier 3 v. #25) 
• The four schools reporting double-digit gains from their 2005 results attributed much of the improvement to new bar preparation courses offered to students:
  • CUNY:  +21
  • New York Law School:  +16
  • Pace:  +16
  • Hofstra:  +14
  • Touro:  +14

For more, see Above the Law and New York Post.