Law schools that lose 20 percent or more of their first-year law students to attrition may soon risk losing their accreditation as well.
The American Bar Association’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is weighing a proposal under which schools with attrition rates equaling one-fifth or more of their first-year classes would have to prove that they are meeting the existing admissions standard. That rule prohibits enrolling a student who “does not appear capable of satisfactorily completing its program of legal education and being admitted to the bar.”
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