The Right Coast

December 23, 2005
 
USD kicks butt on bar results
By Tom Smith

This from taxprof. USD does even better on the SSRN download score.

CA Bar Rank SchoolUS News Overall CA RankUS News Peer CA RankSSRN CA Rank
1 (88.7%)
UCLA
332
2 (88.0%) Stanford111
3 (87.0%) Boalt224
4 (84.3%) Hastings669
5 (81.7%) USC443
6 (80.0%) USD
8
75
7 (75.0%) Loyola786
8 (74.4%) USFTier 31013
9 (73.8%) Davis557
10 (72.6%) Pepperdine91016
11 (66.4%) Southwest.Tier 31310
12 (63.9%) McGeorge101215
13 (62.5%) Santa ClaraTier 3912
14 (59.5%) ChapmanTier 41711
15 (57.7%) Cal-WesternTier 414
14
16 (43.8%) Golden GateTier 41418
17 (39.7%) WhittierTier 41617
18 (38.4%) T. JeffersonTier 4178
19 (24.6%) Western St.Tier 41919

Stanford's result does not include their dean's efforts presumably.

A NOTE TO PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE. Everything is relative. USD is nipping at the heels of some nationally very prestigious law schools. And has a significantly higher passage rate and SSRN download rate than UC Davis for example, and a higher SSRN download number than UC Hastings. This is very good, way ahead of where USD was, say, five or ten years ago. Who knows what the future may hold?