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LSAC Volume Summary

Volumes rounded to nearest hundred
  Fall 2000 Fall 2001 Fall 2002 Fall 2003 Fall 2004 Fall 2005 Fall 2006 Fall 2007 Fall 2008 Fall 2009
ABA Applicants                    
Preliminary End-of-Year ** 72,000* 75,900 88,900 98,300 98,700 93,500 87,300 82,800 82,000 86,100
% Change from prior year - 5.4% 17.1% 10.6% 0.4% -5.2% -6.7% -5.1% -1.0% 5.0%
                     
Final End-of-Year ** 74,600* 77,200 90,900 99,500 100,600 95,800 88,700 84,000 83,400 86,600
% Change from prior year - 3.6% 17.6% 9.5% 1.1% -4.8% -7.4% -5.2% -0.8% 3.9%
                     
Admitted Applicants                    
End-of-Year 50,300* 51,800 56,500 56,800 55,900 56,100 56,000 55,500 55,500 58,400
% Change from prior year - 2.9% 9.1% 0.6% -1.6% 0.3% -0.2% -0.9% 0.0% 5.1%
                     
LSAC Matriculants                    
End-of-Year 41,200* 42,700 46,000 46,200 45,400 45,800 46,100 46,700 46,500 48,900
% Change from prior year - 3.6% 7.7% 0.4% -1.7% 0.9% 0.7% 1.4% -0.5% 5.3%

* Due to significant changes in data collection methods, asterisked (*) data is not comparable to prior data. Additional Information.

** Preliminary end-of-year ABA applicants is the count available to LSAC as of August 8 of each year. Final end-of-year ABA
applicants is the count after all processing for the application year is completed.

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