Golden Gate found to be in compliance with ABA admissions standard
Golden Gate University School of Law. Burntorange72 / Wikimedia Commons
Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco has demonstrated compliance with Standard 501, which deals with admissions, according to a notice from the council of the American Bar Association's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar posted in February.
In 2018, the law school was found to be “significantly out of compliance” with Standard 501(b), which requires that law schools only admit candidates who appear capable of finishing law school and passing a bar exam. It was also out of compliance with three separate interpretations of Standard 501, which focused on topics including class academic credentials as well as academic and nontransfer attrition.
“I am incredibly happy that the ABA has recognized our hard work. We set very high goals for ourselves at GGU Law, which allowed us to dramatically improve our incoming enrollment statistics over the past couple of years,” Anthony Niedwiecki, the law school’s dean, wrote in an email to the ABA Journal.
The law school’s ultimate bar passage rate this year is 75%, which just meets the requirements of Standard 316. Comparatively, its ultimate bar passage rate for 2018 was 72.26%, according to ABA data.
For both 2018 and 2019, Golden Gate Law’s 25th percentile LSAT score was 147, according to 509 Reports for those years. The 25th percentile undergraduate GPA for 2018 was 2.65, compared to 2.79 in 2019.
