Sunday, December 30, 2018
July 2018 California Bar Exam Results
The California State Bar has released school-by-school data on the July 2018 California Bar Exam. The July 2018 pass rate for first-time test-takers from California ABA-approved law schools was 64%, down six percentage points from last year. The pass rate fell at 20 of the 21 California ABA-approved law schools; only Pepperdine increased its pass rate (to 66%). Here are the July 2018 results for the 21 California ABA-approved law schools, along with each school's change from the July 2017 results:
|
Bar Pass Rank (Rate) |
School |
Rate Change From 2017 |
|
1 (91%) |
Stanford |
-5% |
|
2 (86%) |
UC-Berkeley |
-3% |
|
3 (83%) |
UCLA |
-5% |
|
4 (80%) |
USC |
-8% |
|
5 (75%) |
UC-Davis |
-4% |
|
6 (72%) |
Loyola-L.A. |
-1% |
|
7 (71%) |
San Diego |
-7% |
|
8 (69%) |
UC-Irvine |
-14% |
|
9 (66%) |
Pepperdine |
+1% |
|
64% |
Statewide Ave. (CA ABA-Approved) |
|
|
10 (60.3%) |
Chapman |
-4% |
|
11 (59.6%) |
UC-Hastings |
-1% |
|
12 (58%) |
Santa Clara |
-21% |
|
13 (53%) |
Southwestern |
-4% |
|
14 (52%) |
Cal-Western |
-13% |
|
15 (51%) |
Western State |
-5% |
|
16 (50%) |
McGeorge |
-12% |
|
17 (34.0%) |
La Verne |
-7% |
|
18 (33.9%) |
Golden Gate |
-17% |
|
19 (33%) |
San Francisco |
-21% |
|
20 (26%) |
Whittier |
-12% |
|
21 (25%) |
Thomas Jefferson |
-5% |
- Above the Law, A Breakdown Of California Bar Exam Results By Law School (July 2018)
- The Recorder, California's Bar Exam: How Schools Fared and What Questions a New Analysis Didn't Answer
- TaxProf Blog, Study: Students' Entering Credentials And Law School Performance Account For Only 20%-50% Of Decline In California Bar Exam Pass Rates
Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:
- July 2017 Results
- July 2016 Results
- July 2015 Results
- July 2014 Results
- July 2013 Results
- July 2012 Results
- July 2011 Results
- July 2010 Results
- July 2009 Results
- July 2008 Results
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/12/july-2018-california-bar-exam-results.html
Comments
JM, You may not understand the nature of ad hominem remarks but surely you realize that no single professor is a "representative" of his or her university. In fact, the AAUP guidelines on extramural speech make this explicit. When professors speak publicly they do so as individuals - protected by canons of academic freedom and their constitutional right to free speech - but not as "representatives" of their institutions.
Posted by: Anon | Dec 31, 2018 10:57:47 AM
Maybe a representative of Santa Clara that posts here would like to provide context on this performance?
Posted by: JM | Dec 31, 2018 7:16:37 AM
JM may not understand the nature of an ad hominem attack but he should at least admit that no single professor “represents” his or her university. In fact the AAUP guidelines on extramural speech emphasize that faculty who speak publicly should be understood to not be speaking for their institution. That speech is protected by the canon of academic freedom and any applicable constitutional free speech rights but it is personal to that faculty member not representative of their home institution.
Posted by: Anon | Jan 1, 2019 6:08:15 AM