Paul Caron
Would-be applicants now avoiding law schools in droves
Interestingly, the decline in law school applications is greatest among those with the highest LSAT scores (170-180, 24%-25% decline) and is least among those with LSAT scores below 140 (15% decline) and 165-169 (16% decline).
Blowback
Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.
Trackbacks/Pings
Trackback URL
Comments
With the super-bureaucratization of our society this seems like an ideal time to enter the legal profession.
gwelf on January 29, 2013 at 5:47 PM
My advice to anyone considering going to law school is don’t. UNLESS you are connected to someone who can get you a job immediately, or you have some kind of business talent and salesmanship, and be honest with yourself about that. In either event, you’ll still be 100k in the hole in 15 years, unless you have that up front as well.
Greek Fire on January 29, 2013 at 5:55 PM
No jobs. Even those who go to the T14 have problems.
IR-MN on January 29, 2013 at 5:58 PM
This is good news. There are way too many lawyers and way too many law schools.
Captain Kirock on January 29, 2013 at 5:59 PM
So are future politicians are going to be more stupid than our current crop? Ugh!
WashJeff on January 29, 2013 at 6:03 PM
The smart kids (everyone is a kid now until they are 26 thanks to OCare) get it.
Shocker.
CorporatePiggy on January 29, 2013 at 6:27 PM
Uh, oh. Education crash, anyone?
MetaThought on January 29, 2013 at 6:34 PM
Good move. A lawless nation doesn’t need lawyers.
darwin on January 29, 2013 at 6:35 PM
I know a lawyer that who can only get temp jobs, kind of like an itinerant worker.
Count to 10 on January 29, 2013 at 6:38 PM
I think the rest of them should be used to test the theory of retroactive abortion.
MikeA on January 29, 2013 at 6:52 PM
I’m wondering. Good riddance to them, but in a horrible twist of irony it may be lawyers that are canaries in the coal mine.
…ouch.
MelonCollie on January 29, 2013 at 7:03 PM
The smart people are now just getting on disability.
SailorMark on January 29, 2013 at 7:11 PM
The United States has more lawyers per capita than any country in the world. There’s only so much loot to divvy up.
RadClown on January 29, 2013 at 7:12 PM
I wonder if this just means that a bright kid who used to apply to ten schools now only applies to five. Plus, it’s easy for a school to record a big percentage dip in exceptional test scores if there weren’t that many such scores in the pool in the first place.
Seth Halpern on January 29, 2013 at 7:51 PM
People stil respond to changes in the market.
How many liberals would have rather preferred the govt to artificially prop up the market for lawyers through taxpayer-funded programs, which then creates a bubble that, when popped, is 10x worse for those involved?
Would that have been better?
WisCon on January 29, 2013 at 8:07 PM