The LSAC is reporting that “As of 01/15/16, there are 157,319 2016 applications submitted by 25,260 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 2.0% and applications are down 0.3% from 2015–2016. Last year at this time, we had 45% of the preliminary final applicant count.” Based on this preliminary data, one would predict that there will be around 56,133 applicants for 2016-17.
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