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@amazingprizzini Yeah, law school flunked out v v few. And most grad schools don't have the same failure rate.

The legend (true? false? dunno) is that first year grad classes used to be "open": anyone could sit in. But only a few would be allowed to pass the exams to be "admitted," for Yr2.
@amazingprizzini So the department developed a culture of large-scale failure. And once the first-year stopped being that way, the culture persisted.

When I was a first year, the rumor was they wanted 30 second year students, but consistently had abt 40 taking the first-yr exams...
@amazingprizzini ... with 30 admits and 10 retakes. So, we thought, if they could just get than number down to 30, they could pass basically everyone, like most schools did.

A few years later, they got it to 30... and passed abt 20. It was just A Thing, apparently.
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