USF Beats Boalt.... Again!
It was noted here last winter that USF beat Berkeley Law in first-time passage rate of the July 2007 California Bar Exam. The Bar is administered twice a year, and the February 2008 data are out. USF beat Boalt once again! And Hastings. And a bunch of others. As a matter of fact, we beat the rest of the ABA schools with the exception of Stanford, USC, Loyola and California Western.
Of course, a lot less people take the Bar for the first time in February, thus the numbers should be taken with a grain of salt.
What does this mean? As usual, not much. Berkeley will go on having excellent OCI prospects, taking open book exams and failing to disclose class ranks. We'll probably keep on falling in the rankings.
But we here at Traditional Notions like winning at things, so we thought we would pass it along.
4 comments:
I considered posting (the numbers came out the night before the bar exam) but with February having such low numbers, I decided to leave it alone. I imagine it definitely helps Cal Western that they both generally do around the CA ABA average and they have more February taker than others. Not that it's not also nice to have higher ranked schools repeatedly fall under us in bar passage.
At this point, I really only care about July 2008.
Any thoughts on why USF Law is falling in the rankings? I would like to know that, and why after graduating from USF Law in 2006 I still don't have a permanent job?
To answer your first question: I think USF has fallen mostly because the rankings are an arbitrary zero-sum game. When someone rises, someone else has to fall.... that's the way it goes. And at the rank level USF is at, the differences are so small between schools that a rise or fall could just be a function of some professor in Ohio deciding this year that we have a "3" reputation rather than a "4" reputation.
To answer your second question: as you are anonymous, I know very little about you, so any answer I might give is only a guess. But if I read between the lines of your comment, it seems that you are suggesting that your failure to have a job is due to USF's poor ranking. Thus, I would say that if you are looking for an honest answer as to why you don't have a job, I might suggest you look inward rather than outward for the answer.
Very nice of you Dave to not make more of a point that not only did our first time takers fare better than our peers across the bay, but that Boalties had the worst rate in the state. Can't wait for the next set of data.
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