{"id":117302,"date":"2025-05-01T13:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/01\/t14-law-school-dean-thinks-law-school-applications-are-soaring-thanks-to-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:02:51","slug":"t14-law-school-dean-thinks-law-school-applications-are-soaring-thanks-to-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/01\/t14-law-school-dean-thinks-law-school-applications-are-soaring-thanks-to-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"T14 Law School Dean Thinks Law School Applications Are Soaring Thanks To Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Having done this a long time, I am used to rises and falls in applications. I think this increase, in part, is a result of the election of Donald Trump.<\/strong> We saw it after he was elected in 2016, though this increase is greater. His election calls attention to the importance of the law and more want to go to law school to be part of fighting for justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dean Erwin Chemerinsky<\/a> of UC Berkeley Law, in comments to Law.com<\/a>, concerning the \u201cenormous\u201d increases in applications that some law schools are seeing for fall 2025 admission, with some schools reporting a record-high number of applications<\/em><\/strong>. Per LSAC, there\u2019s been a 19.5% year-over-year increase in people applying to law school.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Having done this a long time, I am used to rises and falls in applications. I think this increase, in part, is a result of the election of Donald Trump.<\/strong> We saw it after he was elected in 2016, though this increase is greater. His election calls attention to the importance of the law and more want to go to law school to be part of fighting for justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dean Erwin Chemerinsky<\/a> of UC Berkeley Law, in comments to Law.com<\/a>, concerning the \u201cenormous\u201d increases in applications that some law schools are seeing for fall 2025 admission, with some schools reporting a record-high number of applications<\/em><\/strong>. Per LSAC, there\u2019s been a 19.5% year-over-year increase in people applying to law school.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Having done this a long time, I am used to rises and falls in applications. I think this increase, in part, is a result of the election of Donald Trump. We saw it after he was elected in 2016, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-mitO4b.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}