UCLA now has a "clear edge" over Duke, Cornell, NU

<p>California Bar Pass Statistics
the July 2004 California Bar Exam </p>

<p>Stanford (91%)
UCLA (87%)
UC - Berkeley (87%)
UC - Hastings (81%)
USC (80%)
UC - Davis (76%)
Pepperdine (74%)
University of San Diego (70%)
McGeorge (69%)
Chapman (67%)
Loyola Los Angeles (67%)
Santa Clara (67%)
University of San Francisco (65%)
Southwestern (57%)</p>

<p>Schools in the Top 50 (according to USNews), not surprisingly, had excellent pass rates. The winner was Emory, with a 90% pass rate. Harvard took second (89%), but ten times as many Harvard graduates took the bar as did Emory grads (91 Harvard to 10 Emory). Here are how some of the out-of-state schools fared:</p>

<p>Emory (90%)
Harvard (89%)
Columbia (88%)
Pennsylvania (88%)
Virginia (88%)
Yale (88%)
Texas (85%)
Duke (84%)
NYU (83%)
Chicago (82%)
Cornell (82%)
Georgetown (82%)
Michigan (82%)
Boston University (80%)
Brigham Young (77%)</p>