Are the glory days of relaxed admissions policies over? Forum

[JCDante]

Heard this has been a tougher cycle than recent years.

If so, RIP easier cycles circa 2011 - 2015.

Are we looking at a throwback to the more difficult admissions of the 2000s?

[mornincounselor]

This forum has massive overreactions to tiny changes. Suddenly the LSAT has gotten much more difficult, or the hay days of "relaxed admission policies" are over. No, it's the same test, and this cycle was slightly more competitive than last year and on par or easier than the other years you listed.

Overall, with the given qualifications respected, it's still a great time to go to law school, still a buyer's market, kids are getting as much in scholarship money as ever before. We are no where near the early 2000s.

[TLSModBot]

. . . or the hay days. . .

Yes the strawmen on this site will still be plentiful.

[jbagelboy]

This forum has massive overreactions to tiny changes. Suddenly the LSAT has gotten much more difficult, or the hay days of "relaxed admission policies" are over. No, it's the same test, and this cycle was slightly more competitive than last year and on par or easier than the other years you listed.

Overall, with the given qualifications respected, it's still a great time to go to law school, still a buyer's market, kids are getting as much in scholarship money as ever before. We are no where near the early 2000s.

Yea the numbers I'm seeing are still CRAZY, people picking up full rides with 3.8/169's and 3.6/171's from multiple T14s. In 2011 those people would have been happy to pay sticker at georgetown or scrape off the Penn waitlist and would probably have been told to ED UVa.

[RZ5646]

Work experience seems to be either more important than in the past or more important than TLS conventional wisdom tends to say it is. Last cycle was difficult for K-JDs.