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Major 'Surge' In LSAT Demand May Lead To Intense Law School Application Cycle

Everyone wants to be a lawyer right now, and the increase in LSAT registrations seems to prove it.

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exam tablet digital lsat Teaching in the modern wayIt’s an election year, and you know what that means: whether they favor Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump, people have been inspired to go to law school as a means to somehow change our country’s future — and they’re all rushing to take the LSAT.

In what’s been described as a “surge,” compared to 2023 data, many more would-be law students — 18% more, overall! — have registered for the LSAT for the current law school admissions cycle. Reuters has the details:

August examinees were up 35% while September was up 7%. Registrants for the just-concluded October exam increased 12% over 2023, while 29% more people have signed up to take the LSAT in November. Taken together, that amounts to nearly 22,000 more LSAT registrants than last year at this time.

More LSAT takers means more law school applicants, which may in turn make this admissions cycle all the more competitive. “Law school may seem to people to be a way to approach what they are seeing going on in the world — and it is a way to approach it and to understand it and to have an effect,” Susan Krinsky, interim president of the Law School Admission Council, told Reuters. “One way to change things is to get involved.”

Best of luck to everyone applying to law school!

High LSAT demand points to competitive law school admission cycle, more interest in legal issues [Reuters]

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Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on X/Twitter and Threads or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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