Cal Western is a bottom-scraping, FOURTH TIER law school. The possible merger with UCSD will be a blight on the UC campus community. Most of the instructors there are low rate "lecturers" from other bottom tier law schools. A merger with UCSD would like pull down the prestige of UCSD and, thus, affect its competitiveness with the other UC schools and hurt San Diego. A UCSD merger with such a subpar school is a horrible idea!!! The administration is a nightmare - just a pure joke. Relying on a bunch of incompetents to help solidify a merger would also bode poorly for such a transition. Also, I don't know where the other reviewer came up with a 90% career placement rate. There are a bunch of CalWesterners out there working at Starbucks so I wouldn't really consider that to be a "success" statistic. (I came across one making my latte and asked why they were wearing a CWSL law school sweatshirt. He said he couldn't find a job - I felt pretty badly for the ...

DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL! Expensive and not worth your time.