"The Charleston School of Law has narrowly fallen short of a change in national accreditation standards on bar exam passage rates, data released Tuesday show.
Seventy-two percent of the law school’s 2017 graduates were able to pass the bar exam within two years of leaving campus, according to a consumer information report released Tuesday by the American Bar Association.
This measure is what’s known as the “ultimate bar pass rate.” Since the bar exam is administered twice a year, students have four tries to pass during this window.
To be in compliance with a revised standard adopted last year, the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar requires at least a 75 percent ultimate pass rate." …