ABA: First-Time Bar Pass Rates: 83% For Whites, 57% For Blacks

Press Release, ABA Releases New Report on Bar Pass Data By Race, Ethnicity, Gender:

The Managing Director’s Office of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar released today a new set of bar pass data for American Bar Association-approved law schools that provides national “ultimate” and first-time percentage pass rates based on race, ethnicity and gender.

The charts, which are incorporated into the section’s Legal Education Statistics, include aggregate data in nine different ethnicity categories.

• 2023 Summary Bar Pass Data: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
• 2022 Summary Bar Pass Data: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
• 2021 Summary Bar Pass Data: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

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