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Earlier this month, we noted that law school application cycle for entry into the class of 2024 was quite robust. We’re talking a 13 percent increase in the number of applicants last year, which amounted to the largest year-over-year increase in law school applications since 2002. Not only was the increase in applications immense, but the number of applicants with LSAT scores in the 175 to 180 band grew as well, from 732 last year to 1,487 this time around. Law schools suddenly found themselves drastically overenrolled with highly intelligent students, for the first time in quite a few years.
Now, we’ve got a bird’s-eye view on what the entering first-year classes at some of the top schools in the country look like.
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Over at TaxProfBlog, Dean Paul Caron of Pepperdine Law has posted data originally compiled by Spivey Consulting for the year-over-year changes in median LSAT scores, median UGPAs, and class sizes for several law schools in the Top 50 as determined by the most recent U.S. News law school rankings.
As you can see, every school listed here raised its LSAT median (even Yale), almost every school listed here raised its UGPA median, and more than half of the schools listed here for which enrollment data was available increased their class sizes (some by a very large amount, like Arizona State and Duke) while others decreased their class sizes by quite a bit (perhaps in order to maintain their shiny, new median student profile, like William & Mary).
What will the Class of 2024 look like at your law school? Keep your eyes on this spreadsheet and watch for updates to see how things shake out.
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Early Returns On The Law School Class Of 2024: Higher LSAT Scores, UGPAs, And Enrollment [TaxProfBlog]
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