Yale Law School Gets Hit by Double-Digit Drop in Applications
Applications are down at the nation’s No. 1 ranked law school.
Yale Law School had a 16.5 percent drop in law school applications at its March 1 deadline, the Yale Daily News reports. The average drop in law school applicants nationwide is about 11.5 percent.
Public affairs director Janet Conroy told the Yale publication that administrators are not worried because the volume of applications “is within our normal historical range.” Last year applications hit a 14-year-high at the school.
Two other law schools reporting drops in applicants are Duke, down 20 percent, and the University of Chicago, down 12 percent, the story says.
Duke’s dean of admissions, William Hoye, told the Yale Daily News that despite the drop, the number of applicants is still the third-largest in the school’s history. Ann Perry, assistant dean for admissions at Chicago, tells the ABA Journal that the year-over-year decline in applications varies between 12 percent and 14 percent, depending on the day she checks the statistics. As of April 1, the drop in applications was 14 percent. “This is the first time we’ve had a decrease in applications,” she says.
Above the Law noted Yale’s numbers. “If fewer people are applying to the disreputable law schools out there, that’s a good thing,” the blog says. “But if fewer people are applying to the best law schools, then dear God, what’s the point?”
Updated on April 1 to remove information about Stanford and to include additional information about the University of Chicago.
