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You’re looking at a significant increase over multiple years. It means you have hyper competition to get into law school.
— Mike Spivey, law school admissions consultant with Spivey Consulting, in comments given to Reuters, concerning the increasingly competitive law school admissions landscape. The number of law school applicants rose 8% this year, following an 18% surge the year before. According to the Law School Admission Council, 82,484 people applied to ABA-accredited law schools this year, the largest applicant pool since the Great Recession.
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