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The FAMU law school was closed through a vote by the Florida legislature in 1965, with the funds transferred to a new law school at formerly all-white Florida State University; vindictiveness for FAMU activism in support of desegregation was a factor. [5]
Many, or perhaps most, law schools in the United States grade on a norm-referenced grading curve.The process generally works within each class, where the instructor grades each exam, and then ranks the exams against each other, adding to and subtracting from the initial grades so that the overall grade distribution matches the school's specified curve (usually a bell curve).
Hawai'i's only law school offers a 2-year Advanced JD Program for graduates of non-US law schools. Students admitted to the accelerated JD program receive the same degree as other JD students and are eligible to take the bar examination in all U.S. jurisdictions, if they meet the other requirements for admission.
Passionate about the freedom movement in Florida, FAMU alumnus, activist and attorney John Due attended the College of Law to help bring about change. Florida shut down FAMU's original law school.
While FAMU has over 13,400 applications for fall 2024 compared to 12,905 at this time last year, over 22,000 applications have been submitted to FSU.
The transitional leadership comes during a time when the HBCU law school is enduring a multi-year trend of worsening bar exam passage rates.
FAMU's main campus is in Tallahassee, Florida, just south of the State Capitol and the campus of Florida State University. It also has a law school campus in Orlando, Florida, and the Research and Development Center in Quincy, Florida. The College of Pharmacy has extension campuses in Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa and Crestview, Florida. [56]
Law school applicants are required to report all scores from the past five years, though schools generally consider the highest score in their admissions decisions. Before July 2019, the test was administered by paper-and-pencil. In 2019, the test was exclusively administered electronically using a tablet. [9]