Information About Law Schools

10 Mar 2019

Which law schools had the most transfers in and out?

The following data is all from 2018 ABA 509 reports [http://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/Disclosure509.aspx]. These are the top 25 schools to matriculate the most transfers: 1 Georgetown: 105 transfers in 2 NYU: 58 transfers in 3 Arizona State: 50 transfers in 4 Emory: 42 transfers in 5 UC Berkeley: 36 transfers in 6 Columbia: 35 transfers in 7 Loyola Los Angeles: 34 transfers in 8 Northwestern: 33 transfers in 9 Harvard: 32 transfers in 10 (tie) UCLA: 31 transfers in 10 (tie) George Washing

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15 Dec 2018

Breaking Down the 2018 Law School Data

You can see the full data here [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sFeqvSqCJGyk9o4fYJjpW_sUq0hR7NQU-bOhUHh5eVc/edit#gid=1117512034] . LSAT median changes for the fall 2018 entering class: No Change 1 point increase 2 point increase 3+ point increase Decrease Top 14 Ranked Schools 8 (57%) 6 (42%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) Top 20 Ranked Schools 10 (50%) 10 (50%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) Top 100 Ranked Schools 39 (39%) 50 (50%) 5 (5%) 0 (0%) 6 (6%) Top 150 Ranked Schools 63 (41%) 68 (45%) 6 (4%) 3 (2

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09 Aug 2018

Class of 2021 Entry Statistics and Changes

As law schools start to round out their final classes to begin this fall, we wanted to keep track of incoming classes’ GPA/LSAT stats and look at how they changed from last year. In past years, law school discussion forums have crowdsourced this data, but since we haven’t seen a similar effort take place yet this year, we put together a spreadsheet that can be added to and kept up-to-date, we hope, from members of numerous different online law admissions discussion communities. We’re posting it

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11 Jul 2018

Top 50 Law School Application Opening Dates for the 2018-2019 Cycle

*Please note, schools can change these dates, and it is possible that when we called to ask them that they gave us the dates applications become available to fill out on the LSAC website rather than when applications are accepted (although we were very careful to clearly articulate what we were asking about) — but this should be highly accurate to the extent we can control it. Also please note that several schools told us that they had not yet decided on an exact date that they will be acceptin

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03 Jul 2018

2018 Top 10 Law School Websites

Ever year we get to know law school applicants who have extensive web development experience, who have just been through the admissions process, and who incredibly generously agree to look at all ABA law school websites to pick us their collective top 10. Here are this year's rankings per one such applicant years! BU Law [http://www.bu.edu/law/] Boston University Law School’s website is one of my favorites. The sans serif font is fun and fresh, especially compared to the more traditional, all c

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04 Jun 2018

Which Law Schools Accept the GRE

American University Washington College of Law Boston University School of Law Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School Brooklyn Law School Chicago-Kent College of Law Columbia Law School Cornell Law School Florida State University College of Law George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School Georgetown University Law Center Hamd Bin Khalifa University Law School Harvard Law School John Marshall Law School Massachusetts School of Law at Andover New York University School of Law Nort

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11 Apr 2018

Video of Law School Class: Law and Leadership

youtube embed code [https://youtubeembedcode.com/en]Find Out More [https://promocode.com.ph/althea/]This is a wonderful hour and a half on what it is like to run a firm, shape a culture for collegues, build a business, and practice law in a meaningful way discussed by Co-Chair Paul Singerman of Berger Singerman. It builds and builds to highlight: -Leadership -Core Values that matter for an effective and efficient firm. -What does "delivering" mean to a firm? -How competetive lawyers can collabo

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21 Mar 2018

Law Schools Ranked by Acceptance Rate

1 Yale University (CT) — 8% 2 Stanford University (CA) — 10% 3 Harvard University (MA) — 16% 4 University of Pennsylvania — 18% 5 University of Virginia — 18% 6 Columbia University (NY) — 20% 7 University of Chicago (IL) — 21% 8 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor — 22% 9 Cornell University (NY) — 22% 10 University of California--Berkeley — 23% 11 Duke University (NC) — 23% 12 Northwestern University (Pritzker) (IL) — 24% 13 University of Southern California (Gould) — 24% 14 University of Texas--A

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21 Mar 2018

The Single Biggest Administrative Mistake Law Schools Are Making

Much has been said about the training of law students. Indeed, while it may seem like a recent discussion, this discussion on how best to prepare law students for their legal careers appears in the very first of law review articles. Should they be deeply immersed in theoretical underpinning of the law (a conscious decision made by the early law schools), enrolled in experiential apprenticeship type training (buzz words we often see today), or a combination of the two? If a combination, how shoul

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19 Mar 2018

In Photos: Law School Accepted Students Weekends

These are just a few photos that we received of this year's 2018 Accepted Students Weekends. Please email us any others you may have to info@spiveyconsulting.com, and we will add them to this post! University of Florida Levin College of Law [https://www.law.ufl.edu/] University of Michigan [https://www.law.umich.edu] University of Virginia [http://content.law.virginia.edu/] Timelapse Video: Eager to get to ASD! The road to UVA Law: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_fjbXMGIvA&f

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