Law School Applicant Pool Continues to Shrink Forum

[scifiguy]

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/07/22/law ... to-shrink/

The pool of would-be lawyers continues to shrink for the fourth year in a row, bad news for law schools already hard-hit by declining enrollment amid a tough legal job market.

The number of law school applicants this year is down by more than 37% compared to 2010, according to the National Law Journal, which analyzed the latest numbers from the Law School Admissions Council.

“Law school just isn’t the path into the middle class that it once was,” Alfred Brophy, a University of North Carolina School of Law professor who tracks enrollment, told NLJ. “Things have tumbled downhill very rapidly. … Students are disappearing, and it’s unclear when they’re going to come back.”

[Nebby]

I wish this would cause TTTT degree mills to close down, but I doubt it.

[scifiguy]

I wish this would cause TTTT degree mills to close down, but I doubt it.

Here was some recent related news:

cooley law school Cancels Entire Incoming Class
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/02/coole ... ing-class/


The Ann Arbor campus of cooley law school, strapped for cash due to falling enrollments, is making layoffs and cancelling the entire incoming freshman class, the school announced Wednesday.

It’s the first of what could be further major contractions in legal education.

“Despite our ongoing cost control efforts, it has become apparent that we must now reassess our costs, including our faculty and staff levels, in light of current enrollment. Thus, Cooley’s board of directors and administration are instituting a financial management plan designed to right size and reinvent the school,” the school said in an announcement. “As part of the plan, Cooley will also hold off enrolling incoming first-term students at the Ann Arbor campus for fall 2014.”

The Ann Arbor campus is just one of five currently operated by Cooley, and the campus’s prospective first years will be offered the chance to matriculate at a different campus. Nevertheless, the class cancellation could prove to be the Patient Zero of a wider epidemic for law schools. . .

[Lying Lawyer]

I wish this would cause TTTT degree mills to close down, but I doubt it.

They'll have to. It's supply demand. The education bubble is starting to burst.

[Yea All Right]

They'll have to. It's supply demand. The education bubble is starting to burst.

Degree mill schools:

[solitarymatch]

I wish this would cause TTTT degree mills to close down, but I doubt it.

No. I encountered someone the other day who told me that TTTTs look more appealing to employers because "no one wants a savant."

I'm serious.

[banjo]

I wish this would cause TTTT degree mills to close down, but I doubt it.

No. I encountered someone the other day who told me that TTTTs look more appealing to employers because "no one wants a savant."

I'm serious.

Students who buy into this crap don't have the common sense/judgment necessary to practice law.

[pancakes3]

I wish this would cause TTTT degree mills to close down, but I doubt it.

No. I encountered someone the other day who told me that TTTTs look more appealing to employers because "no one wants a savant."

I'm serious.

Students who buy into this crap don't have the common sense/judgment necessary to practice law.

What do you mean? Anecdotal evidence is the best evidence! What do you think case law is?