BLS Grads Make it Rain
Baylor's most recent 100% Bar passage rate is pretty neat and really, really impressive.
The accomplishment inspired UT Law to issue shirts reading:
Front: "They get lots of practice passing bars in Waco . . ."
Back: (picture of a car driving past Showtime) "Because they all suck."
The shirts were handed out at one of UT's infamous racist parties, celebrating both the school's tremendous reputation and 79% bar passage rate.
To be fair though, it's my journalistic duty to report that I could be wrong; I could have made that up.
I don't know. Maybe 21% of UT Grads are the mucker / grinder types that work night jobs through law school, doing really well in class only to get sick the big day. Maybe the test was hard. Maybe they exposed their genitals during the exam. I don't know.
I don't know. Maybe 21% of UT Grads are the mucker / grinder types that work night jobs through law school, doing really well in class only to get sick the big day. Maybe the test was hard. Maybe they exposed their genitals during the exam. I don't know.
posted by Jon Swanburg @ 3:07 PM
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9 Comments:
Not that you're smug or anything.
They were all waiting for the bar questions about the history of law in Iceland, and what the Magna Carta and the Constitution have in common. You know, the dumba$$ theory crap they study instead of how to actually practice law.
I took a law school class on blood feuds in Iceland. It's true there were no questions on that on the bar exam, but I did pass anyways.
I think a point of differentiation between Baylor and UT is that at UT there is the assumption that their students are smart enough to learn the bar topics at least in part on their own. Sometimes that assumption is wrong.
37/37 first timers in TX
4/4 retakers in tx
1/1 tennesee bar
1/1 arizona bar
NO ONE failed from Baylor, in any state
I really hope that trend of Baylor grads always passing (and others not so much) continues so firms don't let so many BLS grads grad unemployed. Who's with me?
Congrats. The bottom 1/5 of Baylor's class is "smarter" than the bottom 1/5 at UT. Now let's see who got more federal clerkships, high paying jobs, or any other indicator measuring the top of the classes.
I guess UT Law will have to console themselves with just three U.S. Supreme Court wins by their clinic this semester, and five cases certified by that court (the other two settled after cert was granted). I am not sure if Supreme Court practice qualifies as "real law" by baylor folks or if its just stupid theory stuff.
From your profile it sounds like you had the monetary backing to attend the highest ranked school that would have accepted you. In fact (even assuming money was an issue), you would have saved money going to the top tier UT Law. Interestingly, having attended one of the most expensive undergrad institutions in the country located in beautiful Malibu, you chose to spend more money at a sub-top-tier school in Branch Davidian, TX than to attend the top tier ranked UT Law (or any other top tiered school for that matter). Now you choose to take the time to blog your attempt at raising the status of BLS by slamming a school that, by all accounts, is superior in its product. Why not just acknowledge that Baylor is what it is... a second tier law school at best. Sounds like you got it right in your blogger profile, "The author is by no means smart, interesting or funny..."
Hey "Anonymous @ 12:35 PM," when you brag "NO ONE failed from Baylor," consider the fact that you're citing the "RETAKERS" from Baylor too. Smart, real smart...
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