For those states many students elect to pay a late fee rather than register before they have determined which state bar they will take after completing law school. Students should obtain information about the state bar where they intend to practice law to allow appropriate compliance. Law School examinations ordinarily consist of general questions based on hypothetical situations. The quality of a student's response is determined not only by evidence of the student's mastery of the subject matter but also by his or her ability to recognize and assign priority to relevant issues, to deal with complex facts and separate the relevant from the irrelevant, to analyze the basis for his or her conclusions, and to express ideas in a clear and orderly fashion. Consideration in grading may also be given to attendance, class participation, and other written work.
Academic dishonesty is grounds for suspension or expulsion.
Students who fail to maintain a grade point average of 2.7 at the end of the second, fourth, and sixth semesters at the Law School may be terminated from the school. A petition for reinstatement following termination will be considered only upon a strong showing of probable future success in law school work. The university has approved programs whereby qualified students can obtain a JD degree and a master of business administration, master of public administration, master of organizational behavior, or master of accountancy degree during four academic years. The law program is ordinarily of three years' duration and the MBA, MPA, MOB, and MAcc programs of two years' duration. The four-year combination is possible because of the subject areas of common interest to the programs.