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The Legal Whiteboard
Projections for Law School Enrollment for Fall 2016
By Jerry Organ
In this blog posting I am doing two things. First, I provide a detailed analysis to estimate the likely total applicant pool we can expect at the end of the…
The Legal Whiteboard
Changes in Composition of the LSAT Profiles of Matriculants and Law Schools Between 2010 and 2015
By Jerry Organ
In late December 2014, I posted a blog analyzing how the distribution of matriculants across LSAT categories had changed since 2010 based on the LSAC’s National Decision Profiles and on…
The Faculty Lounge
LSAC and Predicting Applicants for 2016-17, Part 3
The LSAC is reporting that "As of 12/18/15, there are 101,540 2016 applications submitted by 17,987 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 2.9% and applications are down…
The Faculty Lounge
LSAT Scores and Eventual Bar Passage Rates
There's a lot to say about professional responsibility, law school admissions, LSAT scores, and risk of failing the bar exam. Before I return to those broader issues, I want to…
Law Deans on Legal Education Blog
Law School Admissions Council Rebuts Law School Transparency’s Claims
By David Yellen
Dan Bernstine, the President of the Law School Admissions Council has issued a release arguing that the recent report by Law School Transparency misuses LSAT scores in labeling students as being at "high…
ContractsProf Blog
Farewell Post IV: Students and Tipping Points
I've been re-reading Malcolm Gladwell. The sub-title of The Tipping Point is How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. That same idea is at the heart of some of his other…
The Faculty Lounge
LSAT administrations up again
Aaron N. Taylor (@TheEdLawProf) tweeted yesterday that administrations of the October 2015 LSAT are up 7.4% over this administration last year. I have not yet seen a statement from the…
The Legal Whiteboard
Part Two – The Impact of Attrition on the Composition of Graduating Classes of Law Students — 2013-2016
By Jerry Organ
In late December 2014, I posted a blog entitled Part One – The Composition of the Graduating Classes of Law Students – 2013-2016. That blog posting described how the composition…
Other
With the LSAT here to stay, where’s the change for the law industry?
Well that didn’t last long: The ABA has voted to squash their rule that allowed law schools to admit a limited number of students who hadn’t taken the LSAT. So…
The Right Coast
Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports
According to LSAC, June 2015 LSAT takers were up 6.6% from June 2014, the first time we've seen an increase since June 2010, and the biggest increase since June 2009. …