The State Bar of California recently released overall statistics for the July 2010 California bar exam, as reported by Above the Law. For first-time test takers, the overall pass rates were 68.3% for all takers (vs. 70.4% in 2009) and 75.2% for grads of the 20 ABA-approved schools in California (vs. 79.3% in 2009).
When it comes to specific schools and how they fared in comparison to last year, the results are varied. Stanford is the top California school in bar passage rates, with 97.8%, up from 92.8% in 2009. Pepperdine’s pass rate rose almost ten percentage points, from79.9% to 88.3%. However, not great news for Davis, Hastings, San Diego, Santa Clara, and Chapman—all had significant drops in their pass rates, the latter three with decreases in the double-digits.
The dark horse in this race is Western State University College of Law, a fourth-tier school with a pass rate of 83.3%, behind only Stanford, Berkeley, USC, and Pepperdine (all at over 88%), and practically on par with Loyola and UCLA (at 83.7% and 83.5%, respectively).
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