It seems law schools aren’t immune to increasing reports of lower enrollment. Paul L. Caron of the TaxProf Blog reports.

Law School Applications Down 18%

LSAC, Three-Year ABA Volume Comparison:

The following charts report ABA applicants and applications for each of the past three falls.

As of 08/08/13, there are 385,358 Fall 2013 applications submitted by 59,426 applicants. Applicants are down 12.3% and applications are down 17.9% from 2012.

Last year at this time, we had 100% of the preliminary final applicant count.

Note the left side of the chart below.