Connecticut Law School Pass Rates

The Connecticut Bar Examiners announced the law school bar pass rate on the February 2009 bar exam. I think its important to post the law school numbers for all to see. I have talked with representatives of law schools (most notably in California and Florida) who have maintained, for example, that their repeat bar taker rate was higher than their first time taker rate, which is mathematically impossible. We, the public, have a right to be given the accurate and raw numbers - not numbers have been sanitized or spun into something that it is not. With the passing of ABA Rule 301-6, law schools will have to account for all of their graduates and not just only the first time takers. Notably, repeat takers have more difficulty passing the bar and repeat takers will have a downward slide on the school's overall rate.

Although other schools in the tri-state area have their students take the Connecticut bar, I will give you the rates for the Connecticut schools:

Quinnipiac:

Overall bar pass rate: 50%
First time takers: 50%
2nd Time takers: 50%
3+ Time Takers: 50%

Connecticut:

Overall bar pass rate: 70%
First time takers: 94%
2nd time takers: 33%
3+ time takers: 40%

Yale:

Overall bar pass rate: 100%
First time takers: 100%
2nd time takers: no takers
3+ time takers: no takers