Thomas M. Cooley Law School

As of 2024, Cooley has failed to reach the 75% two year bar passage required of ABA Standard 316 for continued accreditation. Multiple media outlets have labeled Cooley the "worst law school in America".

Lots of better law schools. Not enough support to the students. Claimed they were diverse, but did not see diversity. Tried twice to set-up an LGBT group, and they said they couldn’t because of lack of interest in the past?

As an older student raising a family Cooley offered me the opportunity to attend weekend and evening classes allowing me to fulfill my dream of becoming a lawyer.

I graduated from Cooley and have been practicing law successfully for almost 20 years. I am proud of my Cooley degree.

Complete joke and waste of your time and money. Unethical. Reasonably likely to lose accreditation from the ABA sometime in the near future. They tried to paint a false narrative accusing me of being a potential school shooter despite having no basis for it. Essentially, they believed *verifiably* false remarks from some of their underachieving students that, I believe, targeted me because they did not want to compete with me in their classes. I was the one that was punished for this and I am the one that was put through unnecessary stress over this. Whether they did anything about the students who made up remarks about me is unclear. I suspect they did not. It is furthermore not reasonable to *expect* this school to prepare you for the bar exam. The correlation with completing their curriculum and passing the bar is also very much insufficient for providing confidence. This school is *currently* accredited and so as long as you implement all the other factors that correlate with bar success into your life then you'll be eligible, and that's really all that matters. So, this school would work for becoming a lawyer if you can actually graduate from it. Absolutely do not do it if you have any superior alternative. The risk is too great. I am Athabascan and was most likely the only Athabascan ever accepted into their school. They took my money for a year then kicked me out without justification. Their unethical, unintelligent students will be graduating instead. EDIT: People have started trying to assassinate and hack me. Incompetently so.