The Red Velvet Lawyer

And, the Number of Applicants Tends to Track the Number of LSAT Takers.   So . . . .  LSAC has now posted data on the number of LSATs administered at the December 2013 sitting.  As a commenter to a Faculty Lounge posting here , known as  "Former Law Review Editor,"  notes:   "Only 28,363 people took the December 2013 LSAT." I blogged about the historical data here .   For another summary of the historical data, by LSATs administered, look here . The recap: Date of Administration/Number of Takers Dec. 2013/28,363 Dec. 2012/30,226 Dec. 2011/35,825 Dec. 2010/42,096 Dec. 2009/50,444 (highest since 1987 when LSAC began keeping these records) Dec. 2008/43,646 You have to go back to 1997 to see this low level of Dec. LSAT takers (then, 29,879 takers).  It has never been lower since LSAC began keeping (or at least publishing) data on LSAT takers in 1987.   Jan.13, 2014 Update:  From the same comment thread by commenter, "Jesus Buddha Moh

LSAC Data on Trends in  LSAT Tests Administered,  ABA Applicants, and  First-Year Law School Matriculants  -- 1968 to 2013 --  At the conference of the Midwest Association of Pre-Law Advisors (MAPLA), which I first discussed  here , LSAC General Counsel, Joan Van Tol, presented new data on applications to law school through August 2013. I emailed her this morning asking her to provide a link to her slides, if possible.  She advises that they have not been posted, but should eventually appear on the PLANC website. I plan to continue to blog on the extremely helpful data provided at this conference by several speakers. Van Tol began with a slide showing a graph with three trend lines for the period of 1968 through the admissions year 2012-2013: for LSAT tests administered;  for ABA applicants; and  for first-year law students.    Most strikingly, the graph shows that legal education has seen three large cycles in the volume of LSATs administered and ABA app