How is the faculty involved in supporting our students for the bar exam? Our substantive-law professors have been great about talking with me about what our students can expect to see on the bar exam. These little things can form an unnecessary hindrance for our international students. For example, I had one student who just wasn’t familiar with the word ‘to serve’ as a legal term, as in serving a subpoena. We also invite these students to be part of the Jump Start program, which for them is expanded with two additional weeks of preparatory classes to help them get up to speed on the U.S. The third group, our international students, sometimes struggle with the bar exam. This gives me a chance to work with them up front, establish relationships with them, and make sure that they’re staying on track with the skills they’ll need for the bar exam. I teach a summer program called Jump Start that brings these incoming students in two weeks before school officially begins, to give them a really good running start in terms of what’s different about law school than undergraduate work.
We can use data like LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs to identify many of these students. There are also some students who benefit from support around transitions, like coming into law school, or graduating from law school and preparing for the bar exam. We want to make the school a study hub for our students as they prepare for the exam. We also have asked our professors to be available to answer questions in some of these content areas. We’ll open special areas of the library just for our bar study students, with coffee and snacks. So we want to encourage people to come and watch the lectures in person. While almost everybody enrolls in these intense programs, they each have an online component that works very well for some, but for some of our students that flexibility is a danger.
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So having a higher bar passage rate makes our school more attractive.įirst are students who do not take full advantage of commercial bar prep courses. Beyond that, law schools are in a competitive environment, and when students are deciding where to go, they look at raw data including bar exam passage rates. We want to give our students all the options in their career, and it’s part of our responsibility as a law school to make sure students have all the opportunities they can. Why is our students’ bar passage rate so important? Inherently, we are teaching our students to practice as attorneys, and if you can’t pass the bar exam you can’t do that.
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