What Comes Next For Law Schools With Two-Year Bar Pass Rates Below 75%?

Following up on my recent post, Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rates:  ABA Journal, What Comes Next For Law Schools With Two-Year Bar Pass Rates Below 75%?:

Of the 10 law schools that in 2020 received noncompliance notices for having two-year bar passage rates below 75%, half appear to again have pass rates that do not meet that threshold. ...

• Charleston School of Law has a 74.19% pass rate for 2018 graduates, compared with 72.12% for 2017 graduates.
• Mississippi College School of Law has a 73.83% pass rate for 2018 graduates, compared with 72.64% for 2017 graduates.
• Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School has a 62.31% pass rate for 2018 graduates, compared with 66.01% in 2017 graduates.
• Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law has a 55.43% pass rate for 2018 graduates, compared with 64.49% for 2017 graduates.
• Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Law has a 52.08% pass rate for 2018 graduates, compared with 70.87% for 2017 graduates. ...

According to a June 2019 memo, if a law school is out of compliance with the standard and in a subsequent year reports a bar pass rate of at least 75%, the school “will have cured its noncompliance and will be found back in compliance with the standard.” [Deans of Charleston, Mississippi College of Law stated that the pass rate of their Class of 2019 exceeded 75%.] ... [I]f a law school doesn’t have a two-year bar passage rate of at least 75%, there could be other ways to demonstrate Standard 316 compliance,

The data also shows five schools with bar passage rates at or above 75% for 2017 graduates but not 2018 graduates.

Those schools are: ...