Sunday, November 21, 2010

Shock and Awe - The bar exam pass list

The public results were released today and I have to share that I am SHOCKED to find that so many of my colleagues also failed the bar. I went to a T25 law school and admittedly graduated at the bottom of the class. I assumed I would be the only individual to shame my school with a failed exam. I was unpleasantly surprised to find that many of my friends have also failed, seven people in fact. (That should put my school's pass rate at around 50%. My school has always had passing rates in the low 90's/ high 80's.) I went to school with these seven people for three years and I feel that I know them quiet well. I had complete confidence that they would all pass. They all graduated from the top of their class at top undergraduate schools. (Then again, so did I.) My parents assumed that I would feel better having learned I was not alone in my failure. But actually I feel much worse! I assumed that I failed because of a horrible score on the last PT, simple bad luck. However, my friends did not have similar computer malfunction issues and they also failed. This scares the crap out of me. Here are 8 people who had great credentials, LSAT scores, blah, blah, and completed the Bar Bri course. According to everything I've heard we all should have passed. Instead we all failed! What? This is crazy. I will let you all know my scores as well as those of my friends as soon as they come out. I don't know what happened but if I am going to take this exam again I will have to regroup and start from scratch. Obviously, my previous approach did not work.

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