law school

($) Shifting business school admissions climate

February 12, 2019 by EssaySnark

In the category of “wow didn’t expect that”: Applications to law school rebounded in the last year. And then again: Hmm, of course! Shoulda expected that! Everything happens due to the political environment and the economy. The economy is the most obvious and immediate driver in trends in MBA admissions. The political environment is the...

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If you really want to go to Harvard…

March 10, 2017 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

How about Harvard Law? Apparently they’re having trouble getting applicants. Or so you’d think, based on the changes they’ve just announced. It’s long been known that law schools have suffered. Oddly, after the financial crisis, law school hiring tanked and never recovered. That happened in financial services too but that sector recovered way more than […]

($) If you thought you’d go to law school and now…

April 21, 2016 by EssaySnark

We spoke previously about how some grad school go-ers may have been switching in the past ten years from an interest in law school to an interest in business school. What if you’re that person? Over the years we have worked with a wide range of BSers, including quite a few who went for the...

Are all the wanna-be lawyers trying for bschool instead?

April 14, 2016 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

You may have heard the news that over the past several years, interest in law school has tanked in this country. According to a 2015 Bloomberg article, app volumes for a three-year JD degree are at 15-year lows . Here’s the chart they posted based on data from the Law School Admissions Council: The type […]

Considering law school instead?

October 16, 2012 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

OK OK so we know this is a bschool blahg — but we stumbled across this awhile back and couldn’t resist posting it for you: As a law school professor, I can’t stress enough how time-consuming and stressful law school is. You will not get to spend any time with your child for those three […]

More schools cutting capacity

May 3, 2012 by EssaySnark - Discusses Kellogg Leave a Comment

The news we discussed recently about Kellogg planning to pare down the size of its standard two-year full-time MBA program (while also boosting capacity at its 1Y accelerated track) wasn’t really news when we discussed it. But this is. Earlier this week we heard that Hastings Law School, which is part of the University of […]