this school isn’t the low price leader though i dont think. there’s others like it.
if you really want to make it as an attorney…you will…regardless of the school.[/quote]
I see three issues with something like this school:
(1) it’s a part time program, so on an apples-to-apples comparison to a full-time law program, it’s closer to $11k a year for tuition. Plus $700 per attempt to pass the baby bar
(2) my quick google search (since I admittedly have never heard of California Southern) informed me that in 2010, 3 of 33 people passed the bar. I found a link showing pass percentages (although not numbers, so this is a little misleading) – no one passed the first time in the July 2010 and 2011 exams. Between 1997 and 2007, only 32% of grads passed the bar (21% first try, 11% on repeat trys). And this is after the “hopeless” cases have theoretically been weeded out with the baby bar, which I have also heard is fairly hard.
(3) if you do manage to pass the bar, you will almost certainly be stuck practicing in California forever, since it’s not accredited and most other states do no permit people from non-ABA schools to sit for their bars.
These points pretty much apply to all non-accredited schools. To me, going to a non-accredited school is like putting $30k down on 00 on a roulette table. Maybe you are right that if someone wants to make it, they will, but the odds are really against you.
