Readers of David Segal’s most recent quarterly New York Times exposé on the weaknesses of America’s legal education system may have been surprised to find that “Last year . . . students spent about $3.6 billion on tuition, according to American Bar Association figures [ABA], accounting for discounts through merit- and need-based aid.”
According to the blog Inside the Law School Scam, this figure comes from multiplying law schools’ enrollments as reported in the ABA-LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools (Official Guide) by their listed tuition and discounting the total by 20 percent to account for grants and scholarships.
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