Admissions to the Bar by Examination and by Transferred UBE Score, 2013–2017

* Individuals admitted in New Hampshire via the University of New Hampshire’s Daniel Webster Scholar (DWS) Honors Program are not included in this chart. The number of individuals admitted in New Hampshire via the DWS Program in 2013–2017 are as follows: 22 in 2013, 22 in 2014, 23 in 2015, 24 in 2016, and 17 in 2017. (The DWS Honors Program, a two-year performance-based program to which students are accepted prior to their second year of law school, allows successful students to be admitted to the New Hampshire Bar without taking the traditional bar examination.)

** Individuals admitted in Wisconsin via diploma privilege are not included in this chart. The number of individuals admitted in Wisconsin via diploma privilege in 2013–2017 are as follows: 461 in 2013, 417 in 2014, 407 in 2015, 351 in 2016, and 347 in 2017. (Wisconsin’s diploma privilege rule allows graduates of its in-state ABA-accredited law schools eligibility for admission without taking the traditional bar examination.)

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