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Class of 2021 Entry Statistics and Changes

As law schools start to round out their final classes to begin this fall, we wanted to keep track of incoming classes’ GPA/LSAT stats and look at how they changed from last year. In past years, law school discussion forums have crowdsourced this data, but since we haven’t seen a similar effort take place yet this year, we put together a spreadsheet that can be added to and kept up-to-date, we hope, from members of numerous different online law admissions discussion communities. We’re posting it

Final 2017/2018 Cycle Data as of 8/1/2018

This is the final cycle data as of August 1, 2018. Applicants are up 8.1%, and applications are up 8.7% compared to last year's data as of August 2, 2017. Detailed data below. Highest LSAT# Applicants% Change YTD< 1404,3481.9%140-1445,9421.1%145-1499,775 2.3%150-15411,5984.3%155-15910,5406.6%160-1648,28314.7%165-1695,12327.2%170-174 2,38213.4%175-18068959.9%% Change in applications# SchoolsIncrease of 100% or more1Increase of 50% to 99%2Increase of 40% to 49%2Increase of 30% to 39%4 Increase o

2017/2018 Cycle Data as of 6/26/18

This is the new cycle data as of June 26, 2018. Applicants are up 8.1%, and applications are up 8.9% compared to last year's data as of June 27, 2017. Detailed data below. Highest LSAT# Applicants% Change YTD< 1403,971-2.0%140-1445,483-0.1%145-1498,962 4.2%150-15410,9476.6%155-15910,1486.9%160-1648,11715.9%165-1695,04229.0%170-174 2,35716.9%175-18068369.9%% Change in applications# SchoolsIncrease of 100% or more1Increase of 50% to 99%1Increase of 40% to 49%4Increase of 30% to 39%5 Increase of

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2017/2018 Cycle Data as of 5/21/18 and consulting capacity update. Key figures: applicants are up 8.8% and applications are up 9.2% as compared to this time last year. Also please note that at this time last year, we had 92% of the final data count. See below for more detailed data. Highest LSAT# Applicants% Change YTD< 1403,7081.7%140-1445,1960.2%145-1498,625 -0.2%150-15410,6892.7%155-15910,0154.9%160-1648,07413.5%165-1695,03625.8%170-174 2,35312.3%175-18068356.7%Category# SchoolsIncrease of

2017/2018 Cycle Data as of 5/1/18

Key figures: applicants are up 8.4% and applications are up 9.0% as compared to this time last year. See below for more detailed data. Highest LSAT# Applicants% Change YTD< 1403,536-2.2%140-1445,000-0.6%145-1498,391 3.6%150-15410,4745.9%155-1599,8956.5%160-1648,03115.9%165-1695,02729.2%170-174 2,34616.5%175-18068270.1%Category# Schools Total Schools 202Increase of 50% or greater1Increase of 40% to 49%-Increase of 30% to 39%-Increase of 20% to 29%5 Increase of 10% to 19%8Increase of 1% to 9%38No

New 2017-2018 Cycle Data as of 3/27/2018

As of 3/27/2018, there are 341,337 applications submitted by 50,908 applicants for the 2017–2018 cycle. Applicants are up 8.6% and applications are up 9.0% as compared to 2016-2017 cycle data from 3/28/2017. Highest LSAT# Applicants% Change YTD< 1402,958-1.7%140-1444,304-1.5%145-1497,492 3.4%150-1549,6385.3%155-1599,3796.0%160-1647,77615.3%165-1694,92728.0%170-174 2,31215.7%175-18067368.7%Highest LSAT# Applicants% Change YTD< 1402,958-1.7%140 674-5.2%1417747.9%142900-3.7%143844-2.9%1441,112-2.4

Law Schools Ranked by Acceptance Rate

1 Yale University (CT) — 8% 2 Stanford University (CA) — 10% 3 Harvard University (MA) — 16% 4 University of Pennsylvania — 18% 5 University of Virginia — 18% 6 Columbia University (NY) — 20% 7 University of Chicago (IL) — 21% 8 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor — 22% 9 Cornell University (NY) — 22% 10 University of California--Berkeley — 23% 11 Duke University (NC) — 23% 12 Northwestern University (Pritzker) (IL) — 24% 13 University of Southern California (Gould) — 24% 14 University of Texas--A

New 2017-2018 Cycle Data as of 3/6/18

As of 3/6/18, there are 306,549 applications submitted by 46,124 applicants for the 2017–2018 cycle. Applicants are up 7.4% and applications are up 7.0% as compared to 2016-2017 cycle data from 3/7/17. Highest LSAT# Applicants% Change YTD< 1402,468-3.7%140-1443,540-5.6%145-1496,376 0.6%150-1548,5773.1%155-1598,6854.6%160-1647,46614.2%165-1694,84827.5%170-174 2,29415.3%175-18066867.4%Highest LSAT# Applicants% Change YTD< 1402,468-3.7%140 551-11.1%1416517.4%142741-7.7%143711-1.0%144886-11.8%1451,

Law School Forums

Just a bit of a repeat of our last message, that the last six years we have been fortunate to receive and publish exclusive data for law school applicants. You can find us generally linking data like the below at two forums: LawSchool.Life [https://www.lawschool.life/] and the Law School Admissions Subreddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/lawschooladmissions/]. But as we may not always be able to be as prompt on boards, you can also always get immediate data and rankings releases at our Twitter [http

Applicant & Application numbers throughout the cycle comparison: 2015-2018