<p>A recent [url=<a href=“http://money-law.blogspot.com/2006/09/california-schools-bar-pass-rates.html]study[/url”>MoneyLaw: California Schools' Bar Pass Rates]study[/url</a>] of California law schools found a whopping correlation of 0.90 between the LSAT midpoint and the bar pass rate at a given school. The correlation between GPA midpoint and bar pass rate was almost as high, at 0.88. Bar pass rates were also strongly correlated (0.84) with USN&WR peer and lawyer/judge evaluations</p>
<p>The advantage to studying schools from the same state is that they will all be compared on the exact same test. The disadvantage, of course, is that there are fewer schools and therefore fewer data points, although California did have 18 ABA-accredited law schools at the time of the study. </p>
<p>The LSAT vs. bar pass rate plot at the bottom of the page certainly appears consistent with a very strong correlation.</p>