Education
Dec. 7, 2016
UC Hastings dean apologizes for school's low bar passage rate
The dean called the school's 51 percent first-time passage rate horrific and criticized the State Bar.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The acting dean of UC Hastings College of the Law issued an apology Monday after only 51 percent of the school's graduates who took the California bar exam for the first time in July passed, a result he called "horrific."
The school's first-time passage rate on the most recent exam was 11 percent below the July 2016 average first-time success rate for graduates of fellow Am...
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