[Teacher317]

Fail? What's that? Virtually nobody fails at IU Law School. The grade curve for every class is mandated. Generally, it is somewhere around 15% A, 45% A- to B, 35% B- to C+, and 5% C and below, and the overall class GPA must also be between 2.9 and 3.05 (on a 4.0 scale). Students must maintain a C+ average... so unless you're in the bottom 5% of all of your classes, you don't get dumped for grades.

The dropout rate, however, is a different story. I don't know what it is for IU Law, but IIRC, somewhere (the Michigan Law School case?) they cited that an AA student was 80% more likely to drop out than a non-AA student.

The author mentions some statistical compilings he was doing for the Indiana Policy folk... maybe we can find that somewhere?

[Mamzelle]

re: dropping out of law school...

This is a rational thing to do if you do not make the top ten percent and/or Law Review. Those ten percent are all the law school cares about, anyway; the other ninety percent only exist to hold them up. When the recruiters come, they'll only look at Law Review. If you're in the ninety, quit.