LSAC and VeryApt Collaboration Will Bring Housing Information to Incoming Students

LSAC is collaborating with VeryApt, a company that works with admission teams from 230 university graduate programs across the country, including 75 law schools. The collaboration helps incoming and prospective students explore local neighborhoods and housing options so they can see what life will be like, create accurate budgets, and get excited about law school.

• View a recording of a recent webinar that introduced the LSAC and VeryApt collaboration
• View and download information about VeryApt
• See a sample housing guide from the University of Richmond School of Law

VeryApt, which specializes in presenting data-based graduate student housing market information, will create school-specific housing guides for each LSAC member law school that wishes to participate. As the guides are completed, LSAC will make them available through Law School Transparency beginning in January 2023. 

There is no charge to schools or students for the housing guides, which are provided as part of LSAC’s expanding commitment to providing tools and information to aspiring law school students. 

Law schools can additionally make use of their housing guides by sharing them via social media, email, school websites, Slack channels and other avenues. 

Law schools that wish to participate in the housing guide service must contact VeryApt

To create the housing guide, VeryApt will ask its law school contact to send a housing survey to its current students. VeryApt creates and hosts the survey but will never ask for student contact information and will never contact students directly. To start this process, schools should write to Gene Williams, president of VeryApt, at GeneW@veryapt.com.  

Participation in the housing guide service is encouraged but not required

The housing guide data and information is helpful to prospective law students in understanding the “total” cost of law school, which includes living expenses. The housing guides are also a great opportunity for law schools to showcase their unique local environments. 

Schools that wish to go a step further can work with VeryApt to create a housing portal to serve as a place for students to interact with one another via a discussion board, find roommates, ask housing questions, or even buy and sell furniture. The charge for the portal is $5,000 annually. 

To learn more or about the portal, or to set up a meeting, you are invited to contact Gene Williams at GeneW@veryapt.com.