Law school rankings organized in tiers—based on reputational survey data from hiring partners, practicing attorneys, and judges.
Application deadlines for every ABA-approved law school for the 2025-26 admissions cycle.
When will law school applications open for the 2025-2026 admissions cycle? Here's the full list, including all ABA-approved law schools.
International students face unique challenges in the U.S. law school admissions process. This article presents an analysis of how top law schools treat international applicants, using data from the past three cycles, and explains what's new for 2024-25!
Here's a list of law schools that have early decision or early action transfer programs.
A list of how the top 50-ish schools refer to themselves in their marketing materials.
When will law school applications open for the 2024-2025 admissions cycle? Here's the full list.
In this post, we hope to help you think through the mountain of information and choices out there so that you can set yourself up for a successful application cycle.
Here are some thoughts and guidelines on how to navigate the use of generative AI tools in your law school application process.
In this newest episode of our podcast, Mike Spivey talks about how to stay calm in the law school admissions process.
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In this podcast, Mike Spivey discusses the phenomenon in law school admissions known as "yield protection," and explains steps you can take to prevent being waitlisted as a result of it.
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As promised in the podcast, here are some resources for how to choose which law school to attend:
In this podcast, Mike Spivey discusses some of the most commonly held misconceptions about the law school admissions process, and how understanding them can help you get admitted.
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For today's podcast, a little something different — some advice on resiliency in the face of watching others succeed in the ways you'd like to be succeeding.
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In this podcast, Mike answers a few questions from Reddit.
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In this podcast, Mike Spivey interviews groups of current law school applicants about their experiences with the admissions process — what has surprised them, how they've handled the stress, what they expect for the future, and what advice they would give to someone at the beginning of the process. The participants are all volunteers from r/LawSchoolAdmissions, and only one happened to be a client of Spivey Consulting.
Here's a link to the blog post Mike mentioned in the podcast: Spivey Blog, The Malevolent Puppeteer.
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