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This is a first ever, and we are grateful to LSAC for sharing this data with us.

Uncertainty is on just about everyone’s mind. So, what I learned first and foremost is to listen. Because as students talked more — they often either worked out their own uncertainties, or at the very least were better able to understand them.

This will be a short but I hope important blog to consider. It's been a notoriously slow admission cycle, and it possibly would have stayed at an equally slow pace until COVID-19 changed things in many dramatic ways.

Directly from LSAC.

A letter to MIke from LSAC's president.

Directly from the American Bar Association.

See the winners of our rankings prediction contest!

The left top 25 pictured below marks the modeling our business intelligence director Justin Kane [https://www.spiveyconsulting.com/about/] projected with the publicly available data and a splash of instincts, and the right top 25 are the just now released 2021 actual rankings. This is one of the services our firm provides; rankings analysis [https://www.spiveyconsulting.com/rankings-analysis/] and predictive modeling. Linked here [https://spiveyconsulting.ghost.io/usnwr-rankings-explaining-so

I had a conversation with a college freshman the other day who was on his way home from school – on account of his school cancelling all classes and asking all students to be out by a certain day. Understandably, he was irate.

The quote (and an awesome video) are in this blog [https://www.spiveyblog.com/posts/you-didnt-come-this-far-to-only-come-this-far] . We will have a podcast up later today on how coronavirus COVID-19 is impacting law schools. In the short meantime I hope you take something from the quote, it is something I really believe in.

Plus/minuses for this year's law school rankings vs. last.

By now all law schools have their new, 2021 U.S. News and World Report rankings, and as always, reactions will be mixed.