{"id":139363,"date":"2025-12-19T07:54:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/19\/a-super-competitive-admissions-cycle-at-top-law-schools-will-be-brutal-for-would-be-law-students\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:54:55","slug":"a-super-competitive-admissions-cycle-at-top-law-schools-will-be-brutal-for-would-be-law-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/19\/a-super-competitive-admissions-cycle-at-top-law-schools-will-be-brutal-for-would-be-law-students\/","title":{"rendered":"A Super-Competitive Admissions Cycle At Top Law Schools Will Be \u2018Brutal\u2019 For Would-Be Law Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

This is looking to be a brutal year for applicants and admissions outcomes [because schools] have more high-quality applicants. In the last several years medians for both LSAT and GPA have risen at almost all schools, making the admissions cycle tougher and tougher each year. Many of the top schools the acceptance rates will drop even further<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Dave Killoran, a prelaw expert and former CEO of PowerScore, in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning the incredibly competitive admissions cycle that law school applicants are currently going through at top-tier schools that are decreasing their acceptance rates amid an increase in applicants. <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of 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

The post A Super-Competitive Admissions Cycle At Top Law Schools Will Be \u2018Brutal\u2019 For Would-Be Law Students<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

This is looking to be a brutal year for applicants and admissions outcomes [because schools] have more high-quality applicants. In the last several years medians for both LSAT and GPA have risen at almost all schools, making the admissions cycle tougher and tougher each year. Many of the top schools the acceptance rates will drop even further<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Dave Killoran, a prelaw expert and former CEO of PowerScore, in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning the incredibly competitive admissions cycle that law school applicants are currently going through at top-tier schools that are decreasing their acceptance rates amid an increase in applicants. <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of 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

The post A Super-Competitive Admissions Cycle At Top Law Schools Will Be \u2018Brutal\u2019 For Would-Be Law Students<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. This is looking to be a brutal year for applicants and admissions outcomes [because schools] have more high-quality applicants. In the last several years medians for both LSAT and GPA have risen at almost all schools, making the admissions cycle tougher and tougher each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139305,"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-139363","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\/12\/Staci-Zaretsky-QsWURy.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139363","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=139363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}