August 14, 2019

Preliminary July LSAT Numbers

Preliminary July LSAT NumbersSpivey Consulting Group

LSAC hasn't released final July numbers yet, and likely won't until after Labor Day weekend (after everyone's received their scores and had a chance to decide if they want to cancel or not).

They did, however, give a preliminary update and we are now starting to get some real data for this upcoming cycle. About 23,000 took July, close to a 100% increase over last year. But, given this years June drop, June/July this year vs. last year we're at about a 15% increase in test takers year over year.

BUT, and this is a huge but, July data does NOT yet include cancellations - which should be expected to be substantial given the free retake. If about 20% of July takers cancel their scores, we'll actually be running behind last year. We think those are potentially achievable numbers, but this is a new game to all of us.

They also very noticeably did not mention September registration volume even though registration has been closed for almost 2 weeks, so... possibly that wasn't as high as they were hoping. Hard to say but LSAC seems to be trending toward controlling their news a bit more of late.

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