Dara Vick was stressed Monday morning.
Excited, but stressed.
After more than three years of law school, all the prep work and studying, it was finally almost time to find out: Did she pass The Florida Bar exam?
Across the state, many others were feeling the same way and asking the same question about their own future.
Vick was on the phone with her father at 9:06 a.m. when he said he saw the Florida Supreme Court’s Facebook page announced that results were in.
He wanted her to look for herself.
Vick logged on and quickly found her number. After a little hesitancy, she slid the page to the right where she found the answer she hoped to see.
She passed.
All that stress and anxiety whooshed from her body, she said, leaving just happiness.
On Thursday, Vick was among more than 40 others who also found out good news just days earlier.
Not for a case or hearing. This was just for them, their day to celebrate becoming an attorney and being sworn in.
There will be plenty of hard work later, as many of the event’s speakers told them.
The July Florida Bar exam had 2,421 test-takers with 1,650 passing, good for a 68 percent success rate.
Locally, 83 of Florida Coastal School of Law’s 160 participants passed for an almost 52 percent success rate.
Vick was one of those on the stand Thursday, hand raised and reciting the oath.
She did it.
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