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Law Students Having Trouble Getting Bar Loans

Bad news for law students.  I wonder how this will affect bar passage rates?  Law schools, obsessed with U.S. News rankings, cannot afford to have students failing the bar because those students can't afford to study properly for the bar.  Hopefully more wanna-be law students will be denied law school loans.  Law school is, for the majority of students, a bad life decision - maybe the worst life decision most 23-and-24-year olds will ever make.  Maybe the credit crisis will end the expensive three-year break from real life that law school is.  Go find yourself in the Peace Corp, or the Army, or on Wall Street, or anywhere else that doesn't make you pay six figures to "figure things out."Even poor students who really want to go will find a way...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).