The Washington Post Highlights the Decrease:
The Washington Post published reporter Catherine Ho’s piece “Law school applications continue to slide.” The article appeared June 2, 2013. Look at this opening:
“The number of people applying to U.S. law schools dropped nationwide for the third year in a row, prompting some law schools to slash the size of their entering classes.
As of May 17, about 55,760 people had applied to American Bar Association-accredited law schools for the 2013-14 school year — down 13.4 percent from 2012, according to data compiled by the Law School Admission Council.
Law school enrollment is also trending downward, with 48,700 people entering their first year of law school in fall 2011 — 7 percent below the previous year, and the first significant decline in a decade. The council has yet to compile nationwide enrollment data for fall 2012.” [Emphasis mine]
You’re welcome, bitches. Then again, if you greedy pigs and cockroaches hadn’t increased enrollment to ridiculous levels - while also greatly increasing tuition annually, for decades - then you would not be in this situation now.
Georgetown Law Will Become Less Selective for Fall 2013:
Staci Zaretsky posted a solid ATL piece, under the header “Law School Applications Are Down, Again, And We’re Shocked” – on June 3, 2013. She begins with a quote from a $elf-intere$ted swine:
“The rest of world won’t weep over fewer people wanting to be lawyers, but for people like me who do admissions, it creates challenges.
– Andrew Cornblatt, dean of admissions at Georgetown University Law Center, lamenting the fact the school now has to fight over a smaller pool of applicants with other highly ranked institutions due to a drop in applicants.”
You will notice that the parasite did not even pretend to care about the students. Later in the article, Zaretsky points out the following:
“As for Georgetown, according to Dean Cornblatt, applications have dropped by six percent this year, but that doesn’t mean the school is going to go and do anything crazy, like immediately trim its class size:
Although Georgetown plans to keep its class size at 575 for 2013-14, the school’s long-range planning committee is considering reducing that number in the future, Cornblatt said.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we were smaller” entering the 2014-15 school year, he said.” [Emphasis mine]
Yes, the dean of ami$$ion$ at 14th ranked Georgetown University Law Cesspool admitted that the school will become less selective for the incoming 2013-2104 school year. I know that “law professors” love to claim that all attorneys suck at math, but you don’t need to be John Nash to figure this out, people. The commode has seen a six percent drop in applicants, but its first year class size will remain the same. If this high-ranked in$titution is resorting to this, then you can bet your ass that many other ABA-accredited dung pits are doing the same.
LSAC Figures:
Take a look at the Law School Admission Council document labeled “Three Year ABA Volume Comparison.” Review the graphs, and then read the provided text:
“The following charts report ABA applicants and applications for each of the past three falls.
As of 05/31/13, there are 376,380 Fall 2013 applications submitted by 56,424 applicants. Applicants are down 13.2% and applications are down 18.6% from 2012.
Last year at this time, we had 96% of the preliminary final applicant count.” [Emphasis mine]
Do you see why “law professors” and administrator pigs continue to maintain that the job market will improve shortly?!?! Of course, the bitches and hags do not furnish one scintilla of actual proof, to back up their claims. Defending this filthy industry is akin to attempting to keep Lebron James away from the paint, while weighing 150 pounds.
The Law School Pigs are Desperately Scouring for Victims:
On May 22, 2013, Paul Campos posted a great entry entitled “Peak law schools.” Look at the information below:
“First year enrollment at ABA schools:
2010: 52,500
2011: 48,700
2012: 44,481
This fall the 2010 matrics will be replaced by a new entering class. We can roughly estimate its size, because typically 95% of applicants have applied by mid-May.Since last fall law schools have been frantically soliciting applicants, when it appeared the applicant pool might be as small as 52,000-53,000. It now appears it will be around 58,500. If 75% of applicants are accepted to at least one school (this would be a historic high), and 87% of these people — the typical percentage — matriculate, that will produce an entering class of about 38,000 1Ls.
A 28% decline in enrollment over three years sounds daunting enough, but the real situation is probably worse. What these numbers don’t reflect is the extent to which schools are slashing real (as opposed to nominal) tuition, in order to fill even this drastically reduced number of first-year seats.”[Emphasis mine]
Conclusion: Only "law professors" and ball-less, brainless shills will be saddened by this development. Perhaps, college graduates are starting to realize that pissing away three years of their lives on an advanced Humanities degree - and incurring an additional $110K-$180K in NON-DISCHARGEABLE debt, in the process - is not a wise investment. Plus, it is now common knowledge that the U.S. lawyer job market is GLUTTED.
Conclusion: Only "law professors" and ball-less, brainless shills will be saddened by this development. Perhaps, college graduates are starting to realize that pissing away three years of their lives on an advanced Humanities degree - and incurring an additional $110K-$180K in NON-DISCHARGEABLE debt, in the process - is not a wise investment. Plus, it is now common knowledge that the U.S. lawyer job market is GLUTTED.