Jerry Organ, at Legal Whiteboard, slices and dices the numbers about enrollment for 2013. With the possibility that applicants will nearly equal the number of available seats, everyone is wondering about whether schools will reduce enrollment or accept applicants with lower scores.
And what will happen three years from now? Assuming that law schools admit thousands of students with much lower incoming credentials, will the bar exam committees loosen their standards on the MBE? Will be see record levels of bar exam failures? Assuming that law schools admit students with much lower credentials, will those schools change their curriculum and pedagogy to help maximize bar passage rates three years from now?