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Our comments on LSAC’s recent announcement regarding cheating on the LSAT and the temporary suspension of the LSAT in mainland China.
On April 23rd, the White House issued an Executive Order titled “Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education,” targeting the accrediting bodies of colleges, law schools, and medical schools. This, among other things, would seem to aim to embolden the federal government’s decision-making process through which colleges, universities, law schools (where we will focus), and medical schools can access billions of dollars in federal student loans and Pell grants. Put in other terms, it coul
I've been asked too many times to count to comment on the U.S. News 2025 law school rankings release a few days ago.
On February 14th, Craig Trainor, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights for the Department of Education, sent the following Dear Colleague memo. Note that this has precedent. The OCR has sent numerous Dear Colleague letters in the past, none of which are legally binding. At face value, they are simply memos with no authority, although they do serve as leading indicators of potential legal action that the Department of Education may consider trying to adopt. But, as the Ninth Circuit Court o
Today has a special meaning to me, and I write to outline our firm’s upcoming growth and diversification of services in 2024.
Thirty-three law schools have obtained variances from the ABA to accept the JD-Next exam results in lieu of the LSAT or GRE. Here's a list of those 33 schools!
After a long, winding, grueling path to get here, we finally have the 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings. Here are the new rankings with +/-.
Just as the most tumultuous rankings season we have ever seen seemed to be settling, and U.S. News had both publicly released their top 14 law schools and the full embargoed rankings to all law schools, the following email was sent to deans.
A few months ago, many law schools announced they would boycott sending U.S. News direct (and non-third party audited) data, essentially forcing U.S. News to change their methodology. The rates of the admissions metrics were significantly reduced. What does this mean?
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, we have our third and final interview with "John" (not his real name; u/Muvanji on Reddit), who we've followed throughout his law school admissions cycle for 2024-2025. John discusses his final decision on where to attend, his process of requesting scholarship reconsideration, his decision not to pursue waitlists, admitted students days, what he's looking forward to in law school, and his thoughts and reflections on the law school admissions process now that it's over.
Prior episodes with John:
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike Spivey and Anna Hicks-Jaco have a conversation with Sarah Zearfoss (also known as "Dean Z"), who has long led the admissions office at the University of Michigan Law School as Senior Assistant Dean and who hosts the admissions podcast A2Z with Dean Z.
The group discusses using generative AI to write your essays vs. to research admissions advice (including asking ChatGPT a few admissions questions and critiquing its answers), the prospect of law schools using AI to evaluate applications, grade inflation (and how admissions officers saw it before open access to generative AI vs. now), application timing (and how early applications correlate to stronger admit rates without necessarily causing them), and more. Plus, Dean Z introduces a new question being added to Michigan Law's application this upcoming 2025-2026 cycle.
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike discusses the various factors that are at play for this cycle's waitlist season, his predictions for how it will go, and his advice for waitlisted applicants. For more on waitlist strategy, check out our Waitlist Deep Dive podcast episode!
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