Over the weekend, the University of Minnesota Law School brought more than 100 prospective students to the school’s largest Campus Preview event ever.
But the preview comes at a time when the number of students applying to law school has dipped by nearly 11 percent nationwide, with high tuition costs and uncertain job prospects deterring many would-be applicants.
At the University, Law School applications are down about 8 percent from this point last year, Director of Admissions Nick Wallace said.
The decline follows four years of record-breaking growth. Although the Law School wants a large pool of candidates, Wallace said the applications the school has been receiving are more focused.
“The students who are applying really want to be here,” he said.
University senior Dustin Fish has been “entertaining” the possibility of law school. But the economics major can’t convince himself to apply –– “the cost-benefit analysis didn’t work out,” he said.
“The rates of getting hired [after graduation] are so dismal,” he said. “Cash is a little tight right now, too.”
Read the full story at the Minnesota Daily.
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