Take the money or try the bar exam?

Above the Law reports.

Which Law Schools Allegedly Paid Students Not To Take The Bar Exam?

For many students at low-ranked law schools, the bar exam will be an unconquerable beast. Members of the administration at these law schools know this fact well, and cringe at the very thought of some of their students further sullying their already low bar passage rates. Let’s say, for example, that your law school’s July 2014 bar passage rate for first-time takers in your home state was hovering in the 50-percent range. That’s an ugly statistic that you’d probably want to somehow cover up in your marketing brochures.

But what if there were a way to ensure that students who were struggling academically would stay far, far away from the bar exam, thus enhancing your law school’s chances of posting less embarrassing passage statistics? If you were an administrator at one of these low-performing law schools, you’d probably jump at the chance to game your numbers. In fact, you know that cash is king for heavily indebted law students, so if you could offer them $5,000 to delay taking the bar exam, you very likely would.

The hypothetical situation described above is exactly what one recently filed lawsuit alleges occurred at several of the nation’s most reviled for-profit law schools.