2021-2022 Applicant Volume Data as of May 1 vs. 2017-2021

As of May 1, applicants are down 11.6% from last year, up 6.1% from 2019-2020, up 1.6% from 2018-2019, and up 4.1% from 2017-2018.

(We do want to disclaim that the 2019-2020 cycle saw a late-cycle surge of applicants due to the pandemic—we would be surprised to end up more than 2-3% higher than 2019-2020 overall once all is said and done.)

While this seems like a shift back to normalcy as far as the overall size of the applicant pool, that belies the disproportionate growth in applicants with high LSAT scores and the disproportionate diminishment of applicants with low LSAT scores. See below for the full data:

Law School Applicant Volume Data, 2021-2022 Cycle vs. 2017-2021