The Busiest Week for Law Fairs
With the middle of October on the horizon, law school AdComms are squarely in the busiest part of travel season.
In September, there may be a few fairs here and there.
In November, there are usually a few events to clean up—maybe we attend this year, maybe we skip it.
But the middle of October is the grind. This is when admissions officers are attending so many events in so many days that they take their cues from old Bon Jovi hits about the grind of touring
rather than licensed medical professionals who typically recommend using calendars to find out the day of the week.
But speaking of knowing the day of the week based on a routine function, we know the big fans of the blog
will note that we’re publishing on a new day of the week. We’ll be shifting production at 7Sage Blog HQ from Wednesdays to Mondays to better align this blog with a few other things that we plan to do in conjunction with 7Sage Social Media HQ. Be forewarned and be on the lookout for a few new items on social media channels!
So, as our AdComm friends rack up the hotel points and as we figure out social media
let’s go through the headlines from around the world of law school admissions.
National LSAT Numbers
After two straight weeks of news from LSAC’s LSAT Registrants and Test Taker Volumes that varied between “cause for concern” and “simply horrifying,” things are pretty quiet this week.
Are there still over 47,000 people registered for the November LSAT? Yes.
Is that more people than who live in the county where your favorite law school admissions blogger grew up? Yes.
Is it only a decline of 0.6% versus last week? Yes.
But let’s take a look at the October registration numbers for a sec and then loop back to November.
In last week’s blog—published right before the first October LSAT test date—October registrations were still at 31,478. Just two weeks before the test, there were 36,059 registrations for the October LSAT, and they were NOT moving at all. Our point is this—funny things happen to registration numbers in the two weeks before a test. It’s very common to see registrations not budge at all five weeks out … move just a smidge at four and three weeks out … but then decrease by as much as 10% per week in the two weeks before the test. For example, on October 9, 2024, there were about 42,500 registrants for the November 2024 LSAT. That number eventually boiled itself down to just over 31,000. As such, our best professional guess is that the final November LSAT numbers will be somewhere around 34,000.
Will that be an increase over November 2024? Yes.
Will it still mean that it’s very likely that apps will somehow, someway increase again this year, even though they increased by 22% last year? Yes.
But could it be worse? Yes.
So we take our small victories and move forward.
National Recruitment Events
And we then try to trade in the karma we’ve accrued from appreciating small victories for good conversations with admissions officers at recruitment events!
- Monday, October 13: Washington, D.C. Law Fair at George Washington University
- Tuesday, October 14: Back-to-back in the Bluegrass with the University of Louisville Law School Fair, followed several hours later by the Centre College Law School Fair. We also have LSAC’s Digital Forum in the evening and the Michigan State University Graduate and Law School Fair in the afternoon.
- Wednesday, October 15: The Greater Pittsburgh Law Fair, the John Jay College Law School Fair, the University of Kentucky Law School Fair, the University of Maryland Law School Fair, the New Jersey Law Admissions Day, the University of Florida Graduate and Professional School Fair, the Cal-Berkeley Graduate and Law School Fair, and—Oh, yes! It’s that time of year!—the Transylvania State University Law Fair. That means I get to make my annual recommendation to read about the craziest rare book heist ever pulled off on a college campus—enjoy!
- Thursday, October 16 … we return to the world of normalcy: the Northern Kentucky University Law School Fair and the Lehigh Valley Law School Fair.
- Friday the 17th and Saturday the 18th: The New York City LSAC Forum
PHEW!
7Sage Events
Our next Admissions AMA will be on October 15, with another session on October 22. Stop on by and ask whatever law school admissions questions are on your mind!
Our next Deans’ Roundtable will be on October 21 and will focus on personal statements.
And speaking of the Roundtable, our latest law school admissions podcast dropped Monday and features a recording from September’s discussion. How did the 2024‒2025 cycle conclude for law schools and what are they looking forward to in the 2025‒2026 cycle? Be sure to check it out on Amazon, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you stream your podcasts!
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