February 23, 2019

How Many People Actually Go to the T14?

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How Many People Actually Go to the T14?Spivey Consulting Group

This data and analysis comes from Reddit user u/HYSLawHopeful, 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 = Enrollees from the Applicant Pool
  • OE = Other first-year Enrollees

Yale:
164 (EA) + 40 (OE) = 204 students
204 / 56,900 = .36% of the applicant pool

Stanford:
165 (EA) + 15 (OE) = 180 students
180 / 56,900 = .32% of the applicant pool

Harvard:
484 (EA) + 82 (OE) = 566 students
566 / 56,900 = 1% of the applicant pool

Chicago:
184 (EA) + 9 (OE) = 193 students
193 / 56,900 = .34% of the applicant pool

Columbia:
395 (EA) + 17 (OE) = 412 students
412 / 56,900 = .72% of applicant pool

NYU:
413 (EA) + 12 (OE) = 425 students
425 / 56,900 = .75% of applicant pool

Penn:
238 (EA) + 13 (OE) = 251 studetns
251 / 56,900 = .44% of applicant pool

Michigan:
348 (EA) + 14 (OE) = 362 students
362 / 56,900 = .64% of applicant pool

UVA:
301 (EA) + 19 (OE) = 320 students
320 / 56,900 = .56% of applicant pool

Berkeley:
301 (EA) + 12 (OE) = 313 students
313 / 56,900 = .55% of applicant pool

Duke:
230 (EA) + 5 (OE) = 235 students
235 / 56,900 = .41% of applicant pool

Northwestern:
240 (EA) + 5 (OE) = 245 students
245 / 56,900 = .43% of applicant pool

Cornell:
186 (EA) + 9 (OE) = 195 students
195 / 56,900 = .34%

Georgetown:
559 (EA) + 22 (OE) = 581 students
581 / 56,900 = 1% of applicant pool

Total:
4,482 students
4,482 / 56,900 = 7.88% of applicant pool

We also have actual attendee data from u/goldenbear2020.

Out of 38,390 total 2018 1Ls (from 509 data):

HYS = 950/38390 = 2.5%

T6 = 1980/38390 = 5.2%

T14 = 4482/38390 = 11.7%

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