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Our predictions for the 2019/2020 law school admissions cycle.

Data is based on acceptance rates for the incoming class of 2018.

We were lucky enough to get some great data on upcoming LSAT administration numbers, and we want to share it with you. We've got some analysis for you, a little bit of a teaser for next cycle, and great input from Dave Killoran of Powerscore, who aside from his obvious LSAT expertise has been closely tracking the shift to a digital LSAT. Without further ado: final June 2019 LSAT registrations are slightly below 24,000. Last year, 22,489 applicants took the June LSAT. As we currently only hav

Learn how to make your own custom law school rankings.

The U.S. News & World Report law school rankings have changed quite a bit over the years. In 1987, the methodology included just one metric—the percentage of law school deans who ranked the school, in their subjective estimation, as a "top 10 law school." See below the resulting top 20. As a bonus, you can also see what tuition rates looked like in 1987—the highest figure of which is under $14,000 (Columbia), and the lowest of which is just $4,500 (UT Austin—which is out-of-state) (note that all

Registration for the June 2019 LSAT closed yesterday.

It's the time of year when some people are making decisions they're not 100% happy about on what law school to attend.

Quick advice.

In law school admissions we often refer to wait list movement as "summer melting" – which is a rather accurate appellation, for as the summer progresses so too does the melting of your admitted/deposited class. As schools ranked above you go to their WL to firm up needs (and needs could be any of a number of things, e.g. LSAT median, GPA, gender, diversity, great applicants etc.) you lose your admits and deposited applicants. It happens in true, albeit extended, waves. HLS, for example, will adm

Introduction We were asked to write about choosing between a T14 school at sticker (full tuition) versus a T20 to T30 school with merit aid. The below constitutes our best stab at that, but please keep in mind that, as always, these are arbitrary cutoff points based on one flawed rankings system and not designed for you as an individual. Point being that a school ranked 18 may be much more valuable to you for any number of reasons that a school ranked 13, etc. If you want to read or watch more

With the upcoming shifts LSAC will be making to the LSAT, we wanted to lay out all of the dates the test is available along with the information we know about them.

This is an applicant question, and a timely one due to the recent USNWR rankings release and upcoming seat deposit deadlines. The applicant asking the question, I believe, uses “desperate” to mean, will a school that just dropped in the rankings suffer applicant pool consequences and thus need to go deeper into their own pool to admit? I will get to that a bit later in this post (and there is available data that anyone could look up by looking at schools that have dropped in the rankings in past