The Red Velvet Lawyer

LSAC Applicant/Applications Data by Geographic Region --Fall 2012 to Fall 2013 -- As I mentioned in my last posting, Joan Van Tol, General Counsel for the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), gave a presentation at the conference of the Midwest Association of Pre-law Advisors (MAPLA) about trends in law school applications.  I described the LSAC data on the historic cycles in applications here . I discussed the conference generally here . Today, I'll describe the LSAC data presented on two maps of the U.S. divided into ten regions: Where are ABA Law School Applicants Coming From?  YTD Change Fall 2012 to Fall 2013; and, Where are ABA Law School Applications Going To?  Percent Change Fall 2012 to Fall 2013. LSAC Geographic Regions for Reporting: The ten LSAC regions are: New England (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island); Northeast (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania); ...

LSAC Data on Trends in  LSAT Tests Administered,  ABA Applicants, and  First-Year Law School Matriculants  -- 1968 to 2013 --  At the conference of the Midwest Association of Pre-Law Advisors (MAPLA), which I first discussed  here , LSAC General Counsel, Joan Van Tol, presented new data on applications to law school through August 2013. I emailed her this morning asking her to provide a link to her slides, if possible.  She advises that they have not been posted, but should eventually appear on the PLANC website. I plan to continue to blog on the extremely helpful data provided at this conference by several speakers. Van Tol began with a slide showing a graph with three trend lines for the period of 1968 through the admissions year 2012-2013: for LSAT tests administered;  for ABA applicants; and  for first-year law students.    Most strikingly, the graph shows that legal education has seen three l...