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Effective today, we have a new admissions package we hope will be useful to many.

The ABA has released the 2019 509 reports, so it's time for us to dive in and see what kind of information and trends can be gleaned from the data.

Mike Spivey's statement on the 2019 rankings.

The link to all of the entering class data for every ABA-approved law school from the official 509 reports is here.

A short blog from Mike Spivey on breaking out of your comfort zone.

Drumroll...

We're now a few months into the 2019-2020 application cycle, and while it's still pretty early, a few trends are starting to emerge.

A list of ABA-approved law schools ranked by highest to lowest earnings-to-debt ratio.

On getting to determine your fate.

My partner, Karen Buttenbaum, used to be the Director of Admissions at Harvard. In fact, years ago it was called "KB1" for an interview and "KB2" for an admit.

This link is to chapter 1 of a book Mike Spivey is writing on decision-making—relevant, of course, to law school applicants and students, but also covering a lot more than that.

We didn't plan to parse the data yet, but the data started begging us to dig in.