Law School Application Opening Dates 2025
When will law school applications open for the 2025-2026 admissions cycle? Here's the full list, including all ABA-approved law schools.
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Timing
28 Jul 2025
15 Jul 2025
Podcast: Military Applicants—Law School Admissions Strategy & More with Harvard Law Grad Brian Henson
In this episode, we interview Brian Henson, a former consulting Spivey client, Navy Intelligence Officer, Service to School mentor, and recent graduate of Harvard Law School, discussing his experiences with and insights into admissions and law school for military applicants.
Read full post17 Jun 2025
Podcast: Top 25 Admissions Tips from Former Harvard Law Admissions Officer & New Spivey Consultant Sam Parker
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Anna Hicks-Jaco interviews Sam Parker, Spivey’s newest admissions consultant, on her top 25 (or so) strategic law school admissions insights from her years as Associate Director of Admissions at Harvard Law School.
Read full post20 May 2025
Podcast: Dean Z of Michigan Law on Admissions Advice and AI—The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
Mike and Anna converse with Michigan Law's Dean Z on generative AI in admissions and legal education—including introducing a related new question being added to Michigan Law's application this upcoming 2025-2026 cycle—plus, a bunch of general law school admissions advice.
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Know Your Law School Seat Deposit Deadlines
Updated with 2025 seat deposit deadlines for all ABA-accredited law schools.
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Real Data on When Law School Admissions Decisions Come Out
Admissions officers are settling into a winter of reading, and the file review process is really just beginning to get into full swing for most of them. So when will decisions be coming out?
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What happens to your application once it is submitted to law schools?
There is often a shroud of mystery among applicants once they submit their applications. As former admissions officers, we'll walk you through how the process tends to work.
Read full post25 Jan 2024
When is it "too late" to apply to law school in a slow cycle?
If you've been following our content this cycle, you know that we are predicting that this will be the slowest law school admissions cycle we've ever seen. How does that decelerated pace affect what counts as "late" to apply?
Read full post10 Jan 2024
Podcast: 8 Ways to MESS UP the Second Half of Your Law School Admissions Cycle
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Anna Hicks-Jaco, Spivey Consulting's new President, discusses common mistakes that applicants make in the second part of their admissions cycle—after they've submitted their applications.
Read full post11 Dec 2023
Podcast: An Insider Look at Admissions with UVA Law Dean Natalie Blazer (Reddit Q&A + Artificial Intelligence in Admissions)
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike interviews UVA Law Admissions Dean Natalie Blazer.
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