«Yale also enrolls the top
law school applicants in the country, and has maintained the highest reputation among both academic peers and lawyers and judges / hiring partners,» Morse continued, circling back to subjective assessments that factor into the ranking.
In partnership with Pfizer Inc, Beveridge & Diamond PC, and the American Bar Association Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources, the Environmental Law Institute is looking for
law school applicants for two Diversity Program Law Clerk positions for the summer of 2012.
First, in my role as Director of Admissions at the University of Calgary I have read some 2000 statements
by law school applicants answering the very question posed by the OBA: «Why do you want to go to law school?»
The law school rankings issued by U.S. News and World Report are widely reported, and are used by
many law school applicants as a guide to prospective schools.
With all the information out there about the climate for law school graduates, can today's
law school applicants reasonably claim to be misled about what their futures are likely to look like?
The Law School Admissions Council has released data
on law school applicants for 2012, showing a significant drop in the number of applicants across the country.
Complaints with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind requesting investigations of nine law schools for violating the civil rights of blind and other print -
disabled law school applicants by requiring applicants to apply online through the inaccessible Law School Admissions Council website.
[Footnote 13] In recent years there has been virtually no change, for example, in the proportion of
law school applicants with LSAT scores of 165 and higher who are black.
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But I defer to the educational experts and to empirical data on what percent of the problem lies with the training approach versus the personality characteristics of the
modal law school applicant and student.
The court referred to the 9,000 Canadian
law school applicants in 2013 for only 2,782 positions (4,758 for 1,502 spots in Ontario),
[Footnote 14] In 1993 blacks constituted 1.1 %
of law school applicants in that score range, though they represented 11.1 % of all applicants.
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I don't doubt that correcting the heavy over-population of lawyers will take more than a few years, but this seems like a rather significant drop in the number of
law school applicants.
Much has been said in the past year about an increase in
law school applicants, sometimes referred to as a «Trump bump.»
Law school applicants are down over 20 % for schools in the Midwest, according to the Law School Admission Council.
According to U.S. News, the number of
law school applicants has dropped nearly 40 % between fall 2004 and fall 2013.
A recent survey conducted by Kaplan Test Prep revealed that, while the number of
law school applicants has declined in the past few years, the quality of the applicant pool is increasing, making law school admissions more competitive than ever.
The story was picked up in a number of places including the Wall Street Journal: The latest data from the Law School Admission Council shows a drop in
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I don't know if the increase in
law school applicants is a «Trump Bump,» but I do know that law students are responding to Trump, and want to be involved.
When you add on the fact that almost
all law school applicants complete an undergraduate degree, the typical period from which a high school leaver can start practising law is eight years.