Online Law Schools: JD Programs... Forum
- JamMasterJ
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Bar passage is due to quality of students, not the school, since you learn the bar in Barbri anyway. But going to law school online is still a terrible decision.
- dingbat
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I haven't taken barbri yet, but I assume that if you don't understand the law (as opposed to knowing the rules) you don't stand a chance, even if you took barbriJamMasterJ wrote:Bar passage is due to quality of students, not the school, since you learn the bar in Barbri anyway. But going to law school online is still a terrible decision.
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I suspect that this may be overstating matters somewhat. Understanding gained from being in a (reasonably) quality law school surely helps, but I would bet that there are a fair number of motivated students who through a mixture of self study and a bar review course would be able to pass a bar exam without having attended law school if they were given the opportunity to try.dingbat wrote:I haven't taken barbri yet, but I assume that if you don't understand the law (as opposed to knowing the rules) you don't stand a chance, even if you took barbri
- A. Nony Mouse
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A friend of mine from law school used to love citing a study that found that college freshmen (? I forget, it might have been seniors - but in any case, students with no law school experience) who took Barbri passed the bar at pretty much exactly the same rates as law school graduates.dingbat wrote:I haven't taken barbri yet, but I assume that if you don't understand the law (as opposed to knowing the rules) you don't stand a chance, even if you took barbriJamMasterJ wrote:Bar passage is due to quality of students, not the school, since you learn the bar in Barbri anyway. But going to law school online is still a terrible decision.
- dowu
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Find the study.A. Nony Mouse wrote:A friend of mine from law school used to love citing a study that found that college freshmen (? I forget, it might have been seniors - but in any case, students with no law school experience) who took Barbri passed the bar at pretty much exactly the same rates as law school graduates.dingbat wrote:I haven't taken barbri yet, but I assume that if you don't understand the law (as opposed to knowing the rules) you don't stand a chance, even if you took barbriJamMasterJ wrote:Bar passage is due to quality of students, not the school, since you learn the bar in Barbri anyway. But going to law school online is still a terrible decision.
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- A. Nony Mouse
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Sorry, no idea what it is, and the five minutes of googling I was willing to put in didn't net anything. I trust this guy, because he's congenitally incapable of lying, and smart enough that I trust him to read the study accurately. But no, I can't trace it to the source, so it might be apocryphal.nmop_apisdn wrote:Find the study.A. Nony Mouse wrote:A friend of mine from law school used to love citing a study that found that college freshmen (? I forget, it might have been seniors - but in any case, students with no law school experience) who took Barbri passed the bar at pretty much exactly the same rates as law school graduates.dingbat wrote:I haven't taken barbri yet, but I assume that if you don't understand the law (as opposed to knowing the rules) you don't stand a chance, even if you took barbriJamMasterJ wrote:Bar passage is due to quality of students, not the school, since you learn the bar in Barbri anyway. But going to law school online is still a terrible decision.
- Br3v
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Why is this thread 2 pages long?John_rizzy_rawls wrote:epiphinous7 wrote:Br3v wrote:Nova wrote:Dont do it