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Yes, you're right - it was Columbia. Sorry.

The same thing applies to studying for the patent bar. I don't know anyone who didn't take the patent bar review class (giant thing in giant halls with non-stop lectures with no questions please). Taught me what I needed to pass the damn thing when the passing rate was below 50%

http://www.uspto.gov/ip/boards/oed/exam/past/results/

No worries, mate :) My sister does have a fake "Princeton Law" shirt though.

You're also right about the bar. Everyone I know from top-tier law schools down to those at the lowest rung schools spent an extra several months at least in week-long marathon bar study sessions.

Craziness, you would think passing the bar is something that ought to be taught in law school, not self-(re)learned prior to the test.

It is not self learned prior test. If you or I wanted to pass the bar, no way we could do it with just a few months of self study. It is years before that made them able to pass the bar with just a two months of learning.

Theoretically, school could organize two months of sychronized revising and cramming, but I think that self revising is more effective at that age and skills level.

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