Predictions

08 Mar 2015

Predicting the 2015/2016 Law School Admissions Cycle

What will next year’s (2015/2016) law school admissions cycle look like? While no one knows for sure, we are beginning to see some early markers that might indicate the historic shift to an applicant buyers’ market may be nearing its end (for the time being). If you have been an applicant of late, it’s been a good run [http://www.lsac.org/lsacresources/data/lsac-volume-summary]. Looking at next cycle, we have one piece of advice: Get your applications in early! That run might be over, but early

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09 Jan 2015

Applicant questions answered, "will high LSAT scores be MORE or LESS valuable this cycle"

“Mike and Karen, as the number of takers continues to drop, won’t it become MORE acceptable to drop a median point in favor of maintaining GPA? Won’t this make high scores LESS valuable? For example, if Harvard or Yale’s median is going to drop to 172, doesn’t a 173 become LESS valuable, not more? If the median drops a point, suddenly, the pool of at/above median expands, right? So, in theory, I should be rooting for medians to stay the same?” This is something we spend a good deal of time loo

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