Postby uconjak » Tue Feb 19, 2013 1:55 pm
I believe that most schools have made some decision on what they are going to do...for instance, USC, They look to have drawn a line in the sand. and they are throwing money to 167+ers. I think they want a 167 Median. Many other schools are in denial about the situation or they will just lower acceptances. But you can't lower numbers every year. Soon your revenues start hurting, Especially if you lowered the number of available seats from last year. Look at Columbia, they lowered their totals about 10% (from Memory). that is fine for one year, but can you do it for 2-3 years and maintain standards. The big issue is not HSY, its everyone else. I believe that it will affect HLS also, but not as bad. The bigger your class size the more students you have to get to fill those empty seats. Yale and Stanford will be ok with only 180 or so seats to fill but they will still have some slipage...but not much.
The big concern is for NYU, and GULC they have had large classes in the past. how do they adjust? I believe that GULC has decided to lower standards a little and fill the seats. But this is NOW a buyers market not a sellers market. I am one student they might not have taken 2-3 years ago (168/3.9). But now they have accepted me, but they are competing against USC which is throwing 120K at me and their cross town rival, GW who sent me a Scholly of 90K. the $$ are not the most important thing but it is becoming more important because of the Employment Market place for lawyers is not what it was 10 years ago. Some schools with be upfront on their reasoning most will say we were more HOLISTIC in our approach this year and wanted a more diverse class. I got that from on t14 school, saying, " your XXX background from the Midwest would enhance our class by bringing some geographic diversity to our Law school."
I believe that most top law schools are struggling with this issue. At least from T4 down. I get that feeling from almost all of the schools in the T14 i have applied to. they all are slower than normal getting decisions out. They are also sending emails telling people to hang on they will get decisions shortly.......Why would DUKE and Michigan send me Fee waivers in the last 2-3 weeks before their application deadline. Why would some schools start extending their admissions deadlines? what to get more qualified students? even if they are border line? splitters/ reverse splitters?
Per Ben Stein, ANYONE , ANYONE?