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Checked my e-mail. Browsed the web to check out some old sites that I haven't visited in awhile, including a site I check regularly for info about US law schools. Bad news. This year applications to US law schools are up. Way up.
That's bad.
Some schools have over 65% more applicants this year than compared to last year. More than half the law schools in the US have experienced an increase of 25% (or more) in the number of applicants this year. Now that's really bad.
Well, it's bad for me anyway. That means more competition. More precisely? More intelligent and more qualified applicants that are applying against me. Which is good for the law schools, but bad for me.
Why the increase in the number of applications? Well a couple reasons are given by the experts. First, the fall out in the IT sector and second, the resulting crappy/lacklustre economy. Of course if you want to blame 9.11, El Nino, and the misalignment of the stars, you could do that too. Whatever the reason, people are changing fields and more students are deciding to go to grad school instead of the job market.
Bummer.
What does this all mean? Well, that means schools where people once had a decent chance of getting in last year, are only going to have a very slight chance of getting in this year. Let me put it this way--people are already getting rejected out of their safety schools. Yay.
Waaaah.
I'm going back to bed. Ugh.