{"id":148356,"date":"2026-04-09T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/09\/law-schools-face-enrollment-wake-up-call-following-landmark-scotus-case\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:20:54","slug":"law-schools-face-enrollment-wake-up-call-following-landmark-scotus-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/09\/law-schools-face-enrollment-wake-up-call-following-landmark-scotus-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Schools Face Enrollment \u2018Wake-Up Call\u2019 Following Landmark SCOTUS Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This should serve as a wake-up call to everyone in legal education. This shift is particularly concerning because first-gen college graduates are a vital way to broaden who gets to be a part of the legal profession and what it means to promote access to justice throughout our society.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Sudha Setty<\/a>, president and the CEO of the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning the decline in law school enrollment of first-generation college graduates for the second consecutive year (23.95% for the 2024 1L class and 21.6% for the 2025 1L class). This data comes from an LSAC report on law school enrollment trends<\/a> from 2021 to 2025. We are now two admissions cycles removed from the Supreme Court\u2019s 2023 landmark decision in Students for Fair Admissions, which ended affirmative action.<\/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\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her 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 Law Schools Face Enrollment \u2018Wake-Up Call\u2019 Following Landmark SCOTUS Case<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This should serve as a wake-up call to everyone in legal education. This shift is particularly concerning because first-gen college graduates are a vital way to broaden who gets to be a part of the legal profession and what it means to promote access to justice throughout our society.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 , president and the CEO of the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning the decline in law school enrollment of first-generation college graduates for the second consecutive year (23.95% for the 2024 1L class and 21.6% for the 2025 1L class). This data comes from an LSAC report on law school enrollment trends<\/a> from 2021 to 2025. We are now two admissions cycles removed from the Supreme Court\u2019s 2023 landmark decision in Students for Fair Admissions, which ended affirmative action.<\/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\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. This should serve as a wake-up call to everyone in legal education. This shift is particularly concerning because first-gen college graduates are a vital way to broaden who gets to be a part of the legal profession and what it means to promote access to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148357,"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-148356","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\/2026\/04\/Staci-Zaretsky-gg77iE.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148356","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=148356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}