Stats Of The Week: New York State Bar Exam Results By School

A school-by-school look at the latest grim New York State bar passage rates.

The recent precipitous drop in the New York State bar exam passage rates (70% for first-time takers) has been earlier noted and discussed here on ATL. The state’s overall passage rate (61%) was the lowest in “at least” 35 years. There’s plenty of blame to assign for this sad state of affairs: the schools’ increasingly lax admission policies, the latest crop of students’ general endumbening, and, of course, foreigners.

Recently, the New York Law Journal broke out bar passage rates by law school and found that 10 of the 15 New York state law schools saw their pass rates decline from last year. Three schools had declines of (roughly) 10% or more: Touro (-15%), NYLS (-10.6%), and Albany (-9.8%). Cornell Law School — which coincidentally had the state’s highest passage rate — went ahead and chartified the NYLJ data in all its grim detail:

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