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Thursday, April 5, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Law school applications increase
Despite a trend toward a decreasing number of applications to Midwestern law schools, the number of applications for admission to the KU School of Law has increased over last year's figure. Lilian S. director of admissions at the School of Law.
Six said Tuesday that 699 students had applied when the statistics were compiled Sunday. Compared with 642 applications received in ear, applications increased 8.9 percent.
"Why don't we just flatter ourselves and say the increase is because of the excellent job we're doing?"
Six said it was difficult to determine why the KU School of Law would have an increase while other schools received a decreasing number of applications.
the incoming class, Six said. She said that the School of Law had accepted 386 of the applications, but that only 190 students would be in the entering class. She said more applications were accepted because there were fewer students to be assessed, three more students applied to more than one school.
Six said the school had increased its recruiting efforts.
Other law schools in the Midwest had 12 to 18 percent decreases in the number of applications they received. The University of Colorado School of Law received 1,300 applications last year, but the number decreased 15.4 percent this year to 1,100.
The number of applications that a law school receives does not influence the size of
missions at the University of Colorado, said that she was unaware why CU had received
"There may be a general decline in interest in the field of law," she said. "Other areas may be not as tight as the law job market. Perhaps there is a scare of the job market for graduating students. How real that is, we really don't know."
The Washington University School of Law received 743 applications in the year and 800 were accepted.
The University of Oklahoma School of Law experienced a 10.6 percent decrease, and t
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And the University of Iowa School of Law had an 18.5 percent decrease, from 989 applications last year to 806 applications this year.
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Figures from the Law Admittance Council support the decreasing number of applications. According to the Council's figures, the number of students who have filed for data reports needed for application has decreased 10 percent nationwide.
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