MAPLA Conference: LSAC Admissions Data -- 1968 to 2013
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...