Everyone in the scamblog movement can pat themselves on the back. Law School applications dropped for the second year in a row, bringing the numbers down 24.1% from just two years ago. (Here’s some basic reporting from Sam Favate at the WSJ.)
Another blog, the Law School Tuition Bubble, has an even deeper insight: the smart ones aren’t applying. The erosion is concentrated on the people with the highest LSAT scores. Of course that makes sense if you believe that there’s some correlation between LSAT scores and the ability to think logically about a problem. The return is just not going to be there in the legal business and as the computer in “War Games” announced oh so long ago, “the only way to win is not to play.”
Or Paul Campos puts it succinctly, “Rome wasn’t sacked in a day.”
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