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The Latest Data on the Current Admission Cycle

Browse through the most complete data on the 2025-2026 admission cycle. Updated daily, LSAC’s data library gives you a complete snapshot of the latest trends in applicant and application volumes as well as LSAT test taker numbers.

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Current Volume Summaries

View the latest volume summaries, including information on U.S. and Canadian applicants and applications broken down by region, ethnicity, LSAT scores.

LSAT Percentiles

Percentiles by LSAT score for 2023-2026 testing years.

Keeping Up to Data, a Podcast by LSAC

This podcast helps listeners get a quick pulse on how the law school admission cycle and pipeline are trending, and what’s coming down the pike.

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2025 1L Profile

Building on prior LSAC research, this report focuses on the 2025 first-year class; as such, it includes insights into the final enrolled class prior to the implementation of federal loan cap and repayment plan changes.

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2025 1L Class: Impact of Accelerated Big Law Recruitment

In a first of its kind report, LSAC and NALP examine the student perspective of accelerated recruiting, disruptions to the 1L curriculum, and the inequities such practices may perpetuate regarding access to Big Law careers.

LSAC’s Knowledge Report: The Composition of the First-Year Law School Class and Enrollment 2021-2025 Trends

This report focuses on first-year law school enrollment from 2021 through 2025, highlighting who is enrolling in law school, where they enrolled, and how rates of enrollment of racially and ethnically minoritized students varied across law schools.

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Research Insights

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LSAC and NALP: The Effects of Accelerated Recruiting

By Elizabeth Bodamer and Danielle Taylor

First-semester law students are facing increased pressure to secure jobs early in their law school journey — and this new dynamic is negatively affecting many students’ first-year experience.

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First-Gen College Grad Representation Declines in 2025 1Ls

By Elizabeth Bodamer

There has been a decrease in the percentage of first-generation college graduates entering law school for two consecutive years.

Who Do You Turn to for Help? It Depends 

By Elizabeth Bodamer

Who people turn to for advice on the journey to law school isn't as simple as their prelaw advisors or their parents. It depends.

Member law schools and prelaw advisors can access exclusive data to better inform the admission process.

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