Cooley given a pass, yet again

Just as we expected, the scam-enabling ABA has once again given rotten Cooley a pass by finding it to be in compliance with a so-called standard requiring that 75% or more of those who take a bar exam within two years of graduation pass one in order for the law school to retain accreditation. Reportedly Cooley achieved this feat, just barely, after multiple extensions of the deadline over a period of years. 

Odious scam-dean James McGrath gloated in the following words: 

I am pleased to report that 76.2 percent of Cooley’s 2024 graduates who have taken a bar examination within two years of graduating have passed, putting us in compliance… Cooley Law School is a trusted institution where law students are empowered to become future-ready leaders who think critically, communicate effectively and are well equipped to navigate and make an immediate impact in today’s complex and ever-changing legal landscape.

When 76.2% eventually pass, 23.8% never do. Thus scamster McGrath, presiding over the very poster child of über-toilets, is "pleased" to see almost a quarter of those who attempted an exam fail to pass one as long as two years after leaving Cooley's allegedly hallowed halls. That figure, by the way, excludes those who never did attempt a bar exam—and let's not forget that über-toilets have been known to use coercion and even bribery to keep students out of the examination halls for those two crucial years (after which the schools drop their hopeless alumni like a hot potato). Of course, it also excludes those who never graduate.

Critical thinking, effective communication, and capable work in the "legal landscape" will be conspicuous by their absence from the ranks of bottom-feeding Cooleyites. Dredged from the depths of the 140s (if not lower) on the LSAT, they just aren't cut out for any of that. Nevertheless, thanks to Uncle Sugar, they get to borrow the full Cooley-estimated cost of attending their über-toilet, which is $78k per year in Lansing and $81k per year in Tampa. Many will not graduate; a quarter of those who do graduate and do write a bar exam will never pass one, at least within two years of graduation. Yet they'll be saddled with almost a quarter of a million dollars of debt, plus the accruing interest. Many of those loans, of course, will never be repaid, so the tax-paying public will ultimately pick up the tab for scam-school Cooley.

You can thank the ABA for this. For more than five years, it extended deadlines so that Cooley could strive to slip just under the wire, while it was far from the mark—almost 20 percentage points below the mark as recently as last year. Apparently Cooley made itself marginally more "selective" long enough to raise the chance that a few more of its dolts would pass, and perhaps it also discouraged—so to speak—the worst graduates from trying. Now, with the ABA's rubber stamp of approval, it may well be emboldened to sink into the 55% range again and milk its undeserved accreditation for several more years before the ABA pretends to take action.