The New York Bar Exam: A Laptopgate Update
Earlier this month, we posted about the laptop policy of the New York Bar Exam. A lot of you weren’t fans:
But this story, like the Oona O’Connell saga, also has a happy ending.
For those of you who care, details appear after the jump.
From a tipster taking the New York Bar Exam this July:
We beat the man! (Or, at least, we beat the New York Board of Law Examiners.)And here’s the email:See E-mail below — all laptop “losers” have been magically transformed into winners!
Thanks for your Laptopgate story.
While the State Board of Law Examiners is able to offer the laptop option to all candidates who were in the Second Lottery, we are only able to offer laptop seats at the locations listed on the link below. Before you register and pay the $70 laptop fee to Software Secure, we urge you to click on the link below to choose your preferred laptop location. The link also includes an option to decline laptop in which case you will be assigned a hand-writers seat based on your residence address. If you are not a resident of New York State and you select a hand-writers seat you will be assigned to sit for the exam in Albany.
To all of you erstwhile “laptop losers,” congratulations. It’s just like American Idol, in the Paula Abdul worldview: everyone’s a winner.
(Sadly, though, not all of you will pass. Best of luck with the rest of your studies.)
New York State Board of Law Examiners [official website]
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Get back to work, like you told us you would.
Supermarket shelves in Jersey don't stock themselves.
Lat, you did it- the NY Bar got their act together after only five or six years, only after pressure from ATL.
Taking the NY bar next month, just got this e-mail:
Dear Candidate:
As you may know, seat assignments for the NY Bar Exam are issued based on a candidate’s residence address. According to the residence address that you supplied to the Board at the time of application, you would be scheduled to be assigned to a laptop location in Albany. Unfortunately, we are currently experiencing a shortage of laptop seats at our Albany laptop locations. Should you have an interest in being assigned to a laptop site in one of the other cities where the bar exam is offered, we will entertain written requests to be re-assigned to one of those laptop sites. Currently, we have a limited number of available laptop seats at our Manhattan, Long Island and Buffalo locations. However, we have a large number of available laptop seats at the Saratoga Springs City Center, which is located approximately 40 miles north of Albany. The Saratoga Springs City Center is attached to the Saratoga Hotel and there are other hotels within a short walking and driving distance to the test center. You may make a request for a location change by either faxing or mailing a written request to the Board office. The request should include your name, BOLE ID number, email and mailing address and the location which you are asking to be reassigned. You may indicate the order of your preference in case your first choice has already been closed out. Requests will be considered in the order in which they are received by the Board and you will be contacted by email if your request is granted. Additional information regarding the test sites is available on the Board’s website at www.nybarexam.org/testsite.htm. If you have either withdrawn from laptop or from the exam entirely, or if you have already submitted a request to change your test location, please disregard this message.
Sincerely,
NYS Board of Law Examiners
Corporate Plaza - Bldg 3
254 Washington Avenue Extension
Albany, NY 12203-5195
Phone: (518) 452-8700
Fax: (518) 452-5729
DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL AS IT IS AUTO GENERATED
I got the first lottery. I will pass. You will fail.
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