PA = TTT for letting 82% pass its bar

Grow balls and cut it in half (like CA & NY)

82% of bar applicants in PA were Penn State grads?

Hey, DE released their results, too.

would be better if they announced who failed.

I passed Delaware!

DE opened the flood gates this year. Now that I'm on the ship, I think it is clearly time to pull the ladder up.

Minnesota results came out on Tuesday -- no love for Minneapolis?

Agree with 2. Any state that passes more than 55% = TTT. The only two legal markets that matter are NY and Cali.

For the life of me, I don't understand why D.C. lets anyone into its bar.

Um, 3, there are other schools than Penn State in Pa. Philly, for example, has Temple, Villanova and now Drexel in addition to its Penn state campus. I think the real question is how Penn fared v. the private schools in the state.

That is a pretty flower.

Elie is retarded. "For our readers out west, we also congratulate Colorado exam takers."

You want to congratulate takers? Don't you mean those who passed?

"For our readers out west, we also congratulate those who passed the Colorado exam." Admittedly, not a great sentence (crap in, crap out), but still better than your steamy pile.

Elie = TTT.

Um, 10, you are an idiot. I think 2 was implying that only penn state grads passed the exam. Perhaps he or she went there. Wild guess.

Sarcasm is really lost on here sometimes. Because people are idiots.

That wilted flower is the best graphic for this post? Really?

A guy I went to high school with used to pass the PA bar all the time.

Why did you post a photograph of an opium poppy with this bar results post?

http://jischinger.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/opium_poppy_big.jpg

There were no jobs a year ago, and no jobs this year. Some of us are working in our old field making what we made before the JD, even with top 10%, law review, etc. Good luck to these guys!

Hofstra grads are obviously having no trouble finding work. Big mistake attending that T20 people....

"Way to get in just before the American economy careens off a cliff."

Taking and passing the bar exam represents the last step in a process that was started 3-4 years ago.

If you have a superior way of predicting recessions 3-4 years before they happen, I'd like to hear it.

Way to be a total bitch.

I'm going to go to medical school. They accept people with J.D.'s, don't they?

Average mbe was a very high 145.6 nationally. That should result in above average passing rates everywhere.

10 - I thought UPenn was the only school in PA, because it's all I hear about on ESPN. Just because you transferred from Temple to this Villanova-and-now-Drexel school doesn't mean you know dick about PA law. Plus, we all know how Penn grads fared--they're consistently the best students in the state, lured by low in-state tuition and Big 10 athletics. Get a grip.

21 - where did you find that mbe statistic? i'm still waiting on results and would love to obsess over the mbe for another 3 weeks. (i'm being totally serious!)

23 - see http://www.pabarexam.org/Bar_Examination/Statistics/pdfs/0708stats.pdf at 2.

@ 24...thanks!

Also, according to the Missouri bar stats, the average raw MBE was 128.97 (with a scaled 146.45), see http://www.courts.mo.gov/file/July%202008%20Exam%20Stats.pdf - although it's unclear which of those stats reflect the national average and which are just for Missouri bar takers.

What exactly are the fitness requirements you have to satisfy in order to be admitted to the bar in PA? Would that be - how to roll from the desk to file cabinet in 3 seconds or 60 WPM on a blackberry?

22, not sure where you are getting your information but UPenn has the highest tuition of any area school b/c its an ivy, not a state school:

http://www.law.upenn.edu/prospective/jd/financing.html

Higher than Drexel, Temple, Villanova, Dickinson, or Rutgers-Camden

28, tuition at its Dickinson Law is high, but I don't know if it's the "highest in the state."

It seems 28 was trying to point out that UPenn has higher tuition than Drexel and the other named schools

Dickinson Law at Penn State and the Law School of UPenn are not the same thing.

Penn creates this confusion by having special names for its schools -- e.g., Dickinson for law, Wharden for business. That's what confuses people about Penn being affiliated with Dickinson College, which is a separate school:

http://www.dickinson.edu/

Geniuses here.

Penn Law is the University of Pennsylvania.

Penn State Dickinson School of Law is Penn State.

Wharton, not Wharden, is the University of Pennsylvania's business school.

And obviously everyone here who doesn't get this went to the University of Pittsburgh.

You guys do realize that Penn State and Penn are two VERY different schools, right?

Just checking...