Re: ALU School of Law DETC Accreditation Not In Near Future

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For most law students, DETC accreditation is less useful than toilet
paper, lol

On 2/12/09, Accreditation is a Marketing Tool wrote:
> ALU may use the DETC Accreditation process as a lure or bait
marketing
> tool to bring new students to the law school that is in a process of
> decline. Many times schools like ALU know that they can't and won't
> attain accreditation status but they dangle that "accreditation"
> carrot in front of students anyway, 1) to attract new students and 2)
> to retain present students. ALU can't afford to loose any students or
> its spiral of decline will accelerate.
>
> At present ALU School of Law and Cal Southern are dangling the
> accreditation carrot. DETC accreditation for ALU school of Law is
> doubtful in near future. Don't get taken by schools that use
> accreditation as a marketing tool to suck in students.
>
>
> On 2/12/09, Karen wrote:
>> But DETC does look at the success of its graduates on state exams
>> be it real estate, CPA, law or others. (Much like the ABA does
>> for its schools.)
>>
>> The two current DETC schools, Concord and Taft, have pass rates
>> above the California accredited school rates. (But below the pass
>> rates of most ABA schools.)
>>
>> I can understand that a school can have poor success every once in
>> a while. But having NO ONE pass on the first attempt?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/12/09, Dom Strikes Back! wrote:
>>> Read the subject!
>>>
>>> On 2/12/09, CA Lawyer wrote:
>>>> Counselor,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your obtuse and quite useless
>>>> comments.
>>>>
>>>> On 2/12/09, FL Attny wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> DETC has nothing to do with CalBar...they both control
>>>>> different things, so don't correlate DETC accred. w/
>>>> viability
>>>>> or bar success... it's like saying the economic stimulus
>>>>> package is sound because congress approved it, even though
>>>>> they have zero success rate, its prolly shiate.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not saying Cal Southern is good or bad, I don't know
>>>>> anything about them.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2/12/09, Karen wrote:
>>>>>> Cal Southern seems to be one of the schools that some
>>>>>> people will survice and obtain DETC accreditation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I wonder why? In check the CA bar's website the number of
>>>>>> Cal Southern graduates who passed the bar exam on the
>>>>>> first attempt over the past FIVE YEARS is
>>>>>> exactly.....ZERO. (I stopped checking after five years.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any comments?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Karen