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Blog Posts

March 9, 2026
Know Your Law School Seat Deposit Deadlines

Updated with 2026 seat deposit deadlines for all ABA-accredited law schools.

January 14, 2026
Law School Application Deadlines 2026

Application deadlines for every ABA-approved law school for the 2025-26 admissions cycle.

January 14, 2025
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?

November 13, 2024
What happens to your application once it’s submitted to law schools, and why do some applicants get decisions faster than others?

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.

January 25, 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?

August 1, 2023
Law School Application Opening Dates for the 2023-2024 Cycle

This post includes a full list of all ABA-approved law schools' application opening dates for the 2023-2024 admissions cycle.

August 15, 2022
Law School Application Opening Dates 2022

Application opening dates for the 2022-2023 law school admissions cycle!

January 10, 2022
When Is It Appropriate to Start Scholarship Negotiations?

Since you are all going to be lawyers soon, let me start by saying something you’ll be saying for the rest of your lives: it depends. But, that isn’t very helpful...

January 8, 2022
Uncertainty in Admissions

Anxiety has no evolutionary benefit, but fear does. Every animal we know of not only has fear, but has a fight, flight, or freeze response to it.

Podcasts

May 5, 2025
Waitlist Predictions for the 2024-2025 Law School Admissions Cycle

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!

You can listen and subscribe to Status Check with Spivey on ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. You can read a full transcript of this episode below.