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What happened on the February 2009 Florida Bar?

April 19th, 2009

The Florida Bar released the results from the February 2009 bar on Monday. The three highest ranked Florida Law Schools (UF, FSU, Miami) each saw a 20+% passage rate drop. In what appeared to be a standard form email, the FSU dean’s office stated that the results were “disappointing and puzzling” and that FSU was “going to ask for further particulars so we can further study what happened.” We have broken down the pass rate changes in the chart below:

School	July 2008 Passage %	February 2009 Passage %	Difference
U. Florida	89.4	64.9	-24.5
FSU	85.4	65.0	-20.4
U. Miami	92.4	61.1	-31.3
Stetson	85.0	80.0	-5.0
Nova Southeastern	85.8	72.5	-13.3
St. Thomas U.	80.0	70.4	-9.6
Florida Coastal	82.3	66.1	-16.2
Barry U.	75.6	54.5	-21.1
Florida A&M U.	67.9	52.3	-15.6
FIU	90.6	81.5	-9.1
Non-Fla. School	77.3	73.7	-3.6

Sources: July 2008, February 2009

As you can see, students from non-Florida law schools suffered the smallest change in passage rate. We have left messages with the Florida Bar Examiners and every major Florida Law school in search of further explanation. Keep posted.

Note: Tallahassee.com has picked up the story, apparently receiving the same form letter from FSU.

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