Say what? It must have been awhile since you’ve bee checking prices, but Hastings is $73k/yr instate. Private USC is only $12k more.
btw: I agree that Hastings should have a much better pass rate; it was 76% only three years ago. That is a precipitous drop in a few years. Academia just doesn’t move that fast.
Unless the test changed drastically in that time, and no one has suggested that it has, one can only assume that the test takers must have changed or the school is really failing its students.
http://www.uchastings.edu/admissions/jd/jd-fin-aid/index.php