More Students with High LSATs are Applying Forum

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More Students with High LSATs are Applying
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/201 ... lying.html

When law school applications began collapsing a couple of years back, a troubling pattern emerged. Some of the biggest percentage drops were among elite applicants with high LSAT scores. The smallest declines, meanwhile, were among candidates with especially low LSAT scores—the aspiring J.D.s who were most likely to end up at diploma mills that leave scads of graduates unemployed. The higher-scoring students got the message that the job market was a mess. But the news wasn’t filtering down to the students most likely to get screwed by the system. As I wrote at the time, “The wrong people have stopped applying to law school.” . . . But here’s the most interesting bit: The number of top-tier applicants—those with at least a 170 on their LSAT—is growing again.