Blog & Podcasts

Cycle Data-COVID 19 Edition

We hope everyone is safe and healthy — it's been a crazy couple of months for the world.

Mean Salaries Of First Year Law School Graduates

For the first time ever, The Department of Education has released these figures

"I was totally lost"

How One University is [Successfully] Communicating to Prospective Applicants in the COVID-19 Era

Schools are going to need to try to get ahead of these obvious questions/concerns of next cycle applicants in their marketing strategies and at the same time be preparing for how they will assess students “differently” due to these many factors.

Law School/Law School Admissions COVID-19 Update, April 8, 2020

Please keep in mind that because so much is fluid right now, no one can say for certain where things will be in a few months.

April LSAT cancelled but offered online in May for registrants

Directly from LSAC.

How to Connect with Spivey Consulting

In addition to here on our blog, we post about law school, admissions, and employment on a variety of social media platforms as well.

Will Universities, Colleges, and Law School Campuses Be Open in Fall 2020?

The short answer is that there is no definitive answer yet.

Podcast: How Will Law School Transfer Admissions Be Impacted by COVID-19?

In this podcast, Mike Spivey discusses how COVID-19 and new grading systems will affect law school transfer admissions.

LSAT score restoration ("zombie scores") numbers

This is a first ever, and we are grateful to LSAC for sharing this data with us.

I Spent Two Weeks Speaking with College Students: This Is What I Learned

Uncertainty is on just about everyone’s mind. So, what I learned first and foremost is to listen. Because as students talked more — they often either worked out their own uncertainties, or at the very least were better able to understand them.

When will larger numbers of law school admissions decisions come?

This will be a short but I hope important blog to consider. It's been a notoriously slow admission cycle, and it possibly would have stayed at an equally slow pace until COVID-19 changed things in many dramatic ways.

Breaking News. LSAC officially resurrects canceled scores for test-takers who registered for March or April 2020 LSAT

Directly from LSAC.

LSAC Letter Involving Possible COVID-19 implications and changes

Podcast: Update on COVID-19 / Coronavirus & Law School Admissions

Just a quick update from Mike Spivey on how the continuously developing situation with COVID-19 / coronavirus is impacting — and will continue to impact — law school admissions.

Memorandum from ABA

Directly from the American Bar Association.

Spivey Consulting USNWR rankings analysis and predictive modeling

Announcing the Winners of the r/LSA USNWR Law School Rankings Predictions Contest

2021 USNWR Law School Rankings: This Year vs. Last Year

Plus/minuses for this year's law school rankings vs. last.

Why Colleges and Graduate Schools are Closing Their Doors So Quickly for the Coronavirus / COVID-19, and Why That's a Good Thing for You (or Your Children)

I had a conversation with a college freshman the other day who was on his way home from school – on account of his school cancelling all classes and asking all students to be out by a certain day. Understandably, he was irate.