By far the most stubborn stereotype about law school applicants is that they are all twenty-something lemmings too naive to comprehend that pursuing a legal education is likely to permanently impoverish them.
True, applicants in their early twenties play a major role in every application cycle, but most people writing on the subject don’t know the age distribution of a typical class of law school applicants. This is unfortunate, because it adds quite a bit of complexity to the wave of news stories about the latest Law School Admission Council’s (LSAC) Current Volume Summary, which shows a notable drop not only in the number of applicants but also in the number of applicants with high LSAT scores, data the LSAC only started providing this year.
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