Applications to law school declining

Graduate School Law School
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<p>From today's New York Times:</p>

<p>"Last year, for the first time since the 1997-98 admission cycle, the number of applicants to law school declined, by 4.6 percent, and so far this year, the number has declined by 9.5 percent."</p>

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<p>so does that mean that employment in DC is up???</p>

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<p>...let's just hope this keeps up for a couple of years</p>

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<p>Why do you hope that?</p>

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<p>Sigh. I read those full articles, and they were absolutely ridiculous. </p>

<p>Not that the numbers are ridiculous - they are very real - but anyone who snoops around lsac.org for a few minutes will realize that law school applications have always been cyclical. There is no earth-shattering, fundamental change in the way that the legal profession is viewed; quite simply, law school applications drop when people have jobs. They were low in the late 80s, rose sharply during the early 90s, dipped around '96 or so, and have gone up since. Now they are going back down. Wow! It must be because young people don't think highly of lawyers!</p>

<p>All ranting aside, thank you for posting that, Greybeard. Good to know what's going on. :)</p>

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<p>Low submission of applications means less competition. Oh so fabulous! Greybeard, that is like the best form of intelligence than anyone has produced in this forum. Shank you so much. Really, shank you.</p>

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<p>A link to another article about this which has data that may be of interest to some of you:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=31755%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=31755&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Jonri, I just attempted sending you a follow-up PM and your box is full. <taps foot="" impatiently=""></taps></p>

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<p>my point exactly akafizzle...</p>

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<p>From the Cornell Daily Sun:</p>

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According to the test preparation company Kaplan, 60,397 students nationally applied to law schools this year, a 10 percent drop from last year.

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<p><a href="http://media.www.cornellsun.com/media/paper866/news/2006/02/17/News/Law-School.App.Figures.Tumble-1618405.shtml?sourcedomain=www.cornellsun.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://media.www.cornellsun.com/media/paper866/news/2006/02/17/News/Law-School.App.Figures.Tumble-1618405.shtml?sourcedomain=www.cornellsun.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>hopefully applications dropping has some relation to less-qualified applications not wasting their time and focusing on something better</p>

<p>here in CA, i think its like 50% don’t pass the LSAT or Bar Exam…can’t remember at the moment</p>

<p>to me those, the other 50 could be making a difference elsewhere</p>

<p>i myself, maybe going down that road <em>sigh</em></p>