Drop Out Rate at Cali Unaccredited Law Schools: About 90%

From the L.A. Times:

A panel of the State Bar of California approved a plan on Friday to require unaccredited law schools to disclose their dropout rates, in an effort to improve transparency for prospective students.

The unanimous decision comes about a month after a Times investigation found that about 90% of students drop out before their final year.

The move is considered to be part of a larger push to elevate the academic standards of unaccredited law schools where low tuition and few entrance requirements attract those who typically find themselves struggling with the coursework or unable to finish for other reasons.

After the first year of law school, law students must take California’s “baby bar” About twenty percent of students from these schools will pass. Graduates from these schools may take the California bar. About one in five will pass.

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