Associate Dean Ann K. Perry Discusses Trend of Increased Law School Applications
Law School Applications are Up Across the Country. Law Deans Aren't Sure Why
Law school applications are up across the country, with nearly 20% more applicants competing for a seat in the class of 2028. But law school leaders and deans aren’t quite sure why.
More residents in the Northeast, Mid-south, and Pacific Northwest regions are applying to law school, according to data gathered and updated daily by the Law School Admissions council, with the highest number of applicants in the country coming from the northeast, defined as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
Meanwhile, Law schools based in the Northeast and in the Mid-south, defined by the LSAC as Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, are seeing the lion’s share of applications, with schools in both regions collectively seeing over 60,000 applications. Total application numbers across the country are up by 23.5% as of February 6, The LSAC also notes that by this time last year, data gathered accounted for 64% of total applicants and 67% of total application volume.
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Ann Perry, associate dean for admissions and financial aid at the University of Chicago Law School, agreed, adding that the school is currently seeing over 20% more applications year over year.
“Given the size of the increase, it seems like this is a combination of things,” she said. “Historically in election years, we see an increase in applications, but it’s never been this high in an election year. We don’t know and we’re trying to figure that out. I don’t know if people are nervous of the economy…some of us thought in last year’s cycle, we thought it was different because of the Supreme Court rulings and thought the increase was attributed to timing, but the increase has continued through the whole cycle.”
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