Subject: Admissions Update
From: Andrew Cornblatt <[email-masked]>
To: Law Center Deans <[email-masked]>, All Faculty and Staff <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 21:27:13 +0000

Good afternoon all- The first big moment when we get a sense of the entering class is May 1, when our first deposit is due. Seems like a good time to give you a quick update on where things stand.

With the important caveat that it is early, the results we have so far are good, very good. Applications for the entering class were almost exactly the same as last year as compared to a 4% decrease nationwide. Our deposits this year are up slightly from last year while admitting about 50 fewer students. As a result, I think chances are excellent that our acceptance rate will be lower than last year. I am very pleased with the quality of our depositors- looks like our medians will stay the same and maybe inch up a little, though as I said it is early.

Our interview program (alumni and group) continues going full blast- either I or an alum will have met about 2,000 applicants (25% of the pool) and about half of the actual entering class. I continue to believe this personalizing of the process has benefitted us enormously.

Best of all, the early returns show a strong increase in our diversity numbers. We are very close to 50% women and the minority number is 30%, up from 24% last year.

We have taken some people off of the waiting list and there may be others but my best guess right now is that the number will be small.

My thanks to all of you who were so helpful in our recruiting efforts and to our terrific admissions staff, especially Alison without whom none of this is possible.

I will keep you posted.

Best- Andy