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Schools are going to need to try to get ahead of these obvious questions/concerns of next cycle applicants in their marketing strategies and at the same time be preparing for how they will assess students “differently” due to these many factors.

Please keep in mind that because so much is fluid right now, no one can say for certain where things will be in a few months.

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The short answer is that there is no definitive answer yet.

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.

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A letter to MIke from LSAC's president.

Directly from the American Bar Association.

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