Legal Commentary

Should students look at bar passage rates (relative to a pertinent jurisdiction) in deciding whether to attend a particular law school? From reading some of the comments to Dan Solove's U.S. News rankings post here, it seems that some students do.  I suspect, though, that one's likelihood of passing the bar is probably mostly explained by things the student already knows about himself before picking a law school, like his college GPA and LSAT scores.  Has anyone ever examined how much law student bar passage rates are explained by pre-law school variables relative to, say, the U.S. News ranking of the law school from which the student graduates?