Class size at Yale Law??
Peter A Schwartz
of 1Ls) at Yale Law???
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Matthew Dundon
>Anyone know the class size (not a specific class, but the population
>of 1Ls) at Yale Law???
Yale "ideally" enrolls 180 1Ls. However, the '97 1L class was higher,
about 210, because a higher percentage of students admitted decided to
enroll than was predicted on the basis of past numbers. Presumably,
admissions were cut this year to bring the class back into line with
expectations. (I wouldn't be surprised when next year's rankings come
out for Yale to have percent-admitted figure below 5%.)
Yale's ideal number is also (approximately) that of Stanford, Chicago
and Cornell, and seems to be the "lower bound" for size for top law
schools. The upper bound is Harvard's 550, the largest 1L class in
the country. A number of regional law schools are (sometimes much)
smaller than 180 range of the schools noted above.
Overall enrollment which is substantially more than 3 times 1Ls is accounted
for by two things: "graduate students", i.e. those enrolled in J.S.D. and
LL.M. programs, and a small transfer allowance, i.e. schools intentionally
enroll a few more transfers into its 2L classes than they loses from the
leaves, transfers, and drop-outs in the 1L class.
Matt Dundon
University of Chicago Law School '98
Daniel Weiss
Matthew Dundon <Dun...@OCF.Berkeley.Edu> writes:
>Yale's ideal number is also (approximately) that of Stanford, Chicago
>and Cornell, and seems to be the "lower bound" for size for top law
>schools. The upper bound is Harvard's 550, the largest 1L class in
625 students in 1992. I dunno if this inludes L.L.Ms and such, but are you
sure that G'town doesn't beat out Harvard for the biggest 1L class some years?
Same book gives Harvard an enrolled figure of 542 for the same year.
Dan Weiss || WDC
Todd Kornfeld
I suspect that figure is for both the full and part time
divisions of Georgetown. Haravrd is suppsed to have the
biggest full time enrollment of any law ABA law school. It is
tough to label LLMs by year since many are often part time
and take years to complete the degree. We have 200 LLM
students at BU and the JDs don't have much contatc with
them....
Todd Kornfeld Third Year Student????
korn...@acs.bu.edu Boston University School of Law