1. Hurry—get your application in before the floodgate opens. News flash: Law school applications only went down 2 percent last year! Of course, it’s still a continuing downward spiral, but that’s “the smallest reduction in four years, according to the Law School Admission Council,” reports Karen Sloan of The National Law Journal. ( In contrast, applications dropped more than 10 percent each year from 2011 to 2013.)
2. Will a rebate entice you to gamble on law school? This is either smart marketing or a sign of desperate times—maybe both. Here’s what one not-so-highly-ranked law school is doing to drum up more applicants. Reports New York Law Journal:
Brooklyn Law School has launched a program to refund 15 percent of graduates’ tuition if they have not found a job nine months after leaving school.
The refund offered through the “Bridge to Success” program begins with the class entering for the 2015-16 academic year, including those who began the school’s accelerated two-year J.D. program in May.
To receive the refund, participants must take the bar examination—though they are not required to pass it—and continue working closely with the school’s career counselors after graduation to show they are making a “good faith” effort to search for jobs, said Brooklyn Law Dean Nicholas Allard in an interview.