Data

07 May 2019

June and July LSAT Registrant Data

We were lucky enough to get some great data on upcoming LSAT administration numbers, and we want to share it with you. We've got some analysis for you, a little bit of a teaser for next cycle, and great input from Dave Killoran of Powerscore, who aside from his obvious LSAT expertise has been closely tracking the shift to a digital LSAT. Without further ado: final June 2019 LSAT registrations are slightly below 24,000. Last year, 22,489 applicants took the June LSAT. As we currently only hav

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23 Apr 2019

T14 Transferring Statistics—and is it worth it?

It's the time of year when some people are making decisions they're not 100% happy about on what law school to attend. They might be consoling themselves with the thought that, "Well, if I do poorly, I'll just transfer up." Some people might be using this thought as a way of justifying going to a school with overall poor employment prospects, or as a way of keeping alive their hopes of [insert dream career outcome here]. Or maybe you're a 1L who's wondering if transferring is a good idea for you

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29 Mar 2019

How to choose between a higher ranked school at sticker price and a lower ranked school with a scholarship

Introduction We were asked to write about choosing between a T14 school at sticker (full tuition) versus a T20 to T30 school with merit aid. The below constitutes our best stab at that, but please keep in mind that, as always, these are arbitrary cutoff points based on one flawed rankings system and not designed for you as an individual. Point being that a school ranked 18 may be much more valuable to you for any number of reasons that a school ranked 13, etc. If you want to read or watch more

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23 Feb 2019

How Many People Actually Go to the T14?

This data and analysis comes from Reddit user u/HYSLawHopeful [https://www.reddit.com/r/lawschooladmissions/comments/atn0g3/how_many_people_actually_go_to_the_t14_random/] , who graciously gave us permission to repost his great data on our blog. HYSLawHopeful sought out to answer the question of what percentage of law school applicants actually ended up at a T14 law school for the Class of 2021 (2017-2018 admissions cycle). Last year, there were 56,900 total CAS registrants. Note: * EA = En

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28 Jan 2019

2018/2019 Midpoint Cycle Update

We are about 50% through the cycle, and I wanted to share some observations, data, and then remaining predictions with everyone. Much of the data can be found here [https://www.lsac.org/data-research/data/current-volume-summaries-region-raceethnicity-sex-lsat-score] , and, for the first time ever, is publicly available and updated daily by LSAC. A deep-dive analysis is also done weekly by our intern on his blog weekly blog here [https://docs.google.com/document/d/14qVpQWwtDdplBXBitItcHOP5I2xWHX

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15 Dec 2018

Breaking Down the 2018 Law School Data

You can see the full data here [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sFeqvSqCJGyk9o4fYJjpW_sUq0hR7NQU-bOhUHh5eVc/edit#gid=1117512034] . LSAT median changes for the fall 2018 entering class: No Change 1 point increase 2 point increase 3+ point increase Decrease Top 14 Ranked Schools 8 (57%) 6 (42%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) Top 20 Ranked Schools 10 (50%) 10 (50%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) Top 100 Ranked Schools 39 (39%) 50 (50%) 5 (5%) 0 (0%) 6 (6%) Top 150 Ranked Schools 63 (41%) 68 (45%) 6 (4%) 3 (2

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05 Dec 2018

This will be a slow cycle, a flat cycle, and a less competitive cycle than last year

All cycles are different – for those that have been following us for a while you will recall the term "counter-cycle" for example – but last year, the 2017/2018 cycle, was truly an outlier. We have well over 100+ years of law school admissions experience on our team, and we have never seen a year with such little waitlist movement. It caught most schools off guard too, but the simple fact of the matter is that if the schools above you are not admitting people off the waitlist, then you aren't ei

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03 Nov 2018

First Look at 2018/2019 Cycle Data

LSAC has publicly released applicant data for the first time this early in the cycle — in past years, data has been distributed only to a small group and only beginning in December or so. Below, we have posted a breakdown of this data as of November 1, 2018 (compared to last year's data as of November 2, 2017). So far, overall applicants are up 17.6%, and applications are up 14.6% as compared to last year — before you let this stress you out too much, however, we were anticipating [https://blo

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31 Oct 2018

LSAT Median Changes and Final Data from 2017/2018

Since the data began coming out in late summer/early fall, we have been collecting the LSAT and GPA statistics of the 2018 entering classes of every ABA-approved law school, primarily on Reddit here [https://www.reddit.com/r/lawschooladmissions/comments/978z9u/link_to_new_medians] (and feel free to comment on that post if you have any new data we can add to the full spreadsheet [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/157-bOhUHh5eVc/edit#gid=1117512034] of 25th/75th percentiles and medians). Ple

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31 Aug 2018

June, July, September 2018 LSAT Registrant Data

LSAT Administration2017 Registrants2018 Registrants2018 First Time Test Takers June30,33324,90916,707 (67%)July12,5658,373 (67%)September45,76334,87520,521 (59%)TOTALS76,09672,349DIFFERENCE-3,747(-4.9%)

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