Talk:New College of California School of Law

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It's a statistical fact shown in the Cal Bar figures that "Almost every lawschool has a higher percentage of first-time takers that pass the bar exam. as compared with repeat takers. New College of California School of Law is the sizable exception to this general rule."

However without explanation the reader may be puzzled by this odd fact. The explanation lies in the mission of the College. It is not to enable people to pass the bar exam nor to turn out successful lawyers in large numbers. Rather it is to turn out lawyers orientated towards a just, sacred and sustainable world with a focus on public-interest law. It measures its success not by the NUMBER of lawyers produced but the KIND of lawyers produced. But since apparently facts that can't be proved can't be included here, the reader will be left to wonder about the bare statistical facts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.226.232.74 (talk) 21:15, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually, it is not a statistical fact at all. If one looks at the February 2007 bar exam results for California accredited law schools, one sees that of the 19 schools listed, 11, or more than half, had a higher bar passage rate for repeat takers than first time takers. Of the 20 ABA accredited California law schools, 5, or 25%, of the 20 schools had a higher repeat-taker rate. Of the 11 unaccredited law schools, 5, or nearly half, had a higher repeat-taker bar passage rate. Thus, of the 50 law schools listed, 21 had a higher repeat-taker rate than a first-time taker rate. This means that 42% of California law schools had a higher repeat-taker rate than a first-time taker rate. The assertions that "almost every law school" has a higher first-time taker rate, and that New College is a "sizable exception" to any general rule, are therefore false and should be deleted from the article. Antigonos (talk) 04:09, 10 December 2007 (UTC)