It’s
an
election
year,
and
you
know
what
that
means:
whether
they
favor
Vice
President
Kamala
Harris
or
former
President
Donald
Trump,
people
have
been
inspired
to
go
to
law
school
as
a
means
to
somehow
change
our
country’s
future
—
and
they’re
all
rushing
to
take
the
LSAT.
In
what’s
been
described
as
a
“surge,”
compared
to
2023
data,
many
more
would-be
law
students
—
18%
more,
overall!
—
have
registered
for
the
LSAT
for
the
current
law
school
admissions
cycle.
Reuters
has
the
details:
August
examinees
were
up
35%
while
September
was
up
7%.
Registrants
for
the
just-concluded
October
exam
increased
12%
over
2023,
while
29%
more
people
have
signed
up
to
take
the
LSAT
in
November.
Taken
together,
that
amounts
to
nearly
22,000
more
LSAT
registrants
than
last
year
at
this
time.
More
LSAT
takers
means
more
law
school
applicants,
which
may
in
turn
make
this
admissions
cycle
all
the
more
competitive.
“Law
school
may
seem
to
people
to
be
a
way
to
approach
what
they
are
seeing
going
on
in
the
world
—
and
it
is
a
way
to
approach
it
and
to
understand
it
and
to
have
an
effect,”
Susan
Krinsky,
interim
president
of
the
Law
School
Admission
Council,
told
Reuters.
“One
way
to
change
things
is
to
get
involved.”
Best
of
luck
to
everyone
applying
to
law
school!
High
LSAT
demand
points
to
competitive
law
school
admission
cycle,
more
interest
in
legal
issues
[Reuters]
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