Law School Applicants From Top Colleges Decreased 7% In 2017, Down 45% Since 2008
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Back in 2013, I was the first person to notice students graduating from the top universities in the country were avoiding law school in droves. … Graduating students from the top universities in the country applying to law schools dropped 6.7% from 2016 to 2017. Since 2008, applicants are down a staggering 44.9%.
More graduates from Columbia (4.9%), Stanford (4.6%), and Princeton (2.7%) applied to law school in 2017 compared to 2016; Duke (16.1%), Brown (15.6%), and Penn (12.4%) experienced the largest declines.
Five schools experienced more than 50% declines in the number of graduates going to law schoool from 2008 to 2017: Stanford (58.4%), Duke (53.6%), Penn (52.4%), Brown (50.8%), and Cornell (50.2%). The schools with the smallest declines were Columbia (25.5%), Chicago (26.4%), and Princeton (28.2%).
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