Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The Legal Whiteboard: The Composition of Graduating Classes of Law Students -- 2013-2016 -- Part One, by Jerry Organ (St. Thomas):

This is the first of two blog posts regarding the changing composition of entering classes and the changing composition of graduating classes. In Part I, I analyze the distribution of LSAT scores across categories based on the LSAC’s National Decision Profiles for the years 2009-2010 through 2012-2013, and then analyze the distribution of law school median LSATs and the 25th percentile LSATs across ranges of LSAT scores. In Part II, I will analyze how attrition trends have changed since 2010 to assess what that might tell us about the composition of graduating classes three years after entering law school as a way of thinking about the likely impact on bar passage over time.

https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2014/12/organ-the-declining-lsat-scores-.html