With the middle of June quickly approaching, law school admissions officers are likely balancing a busy time in their personal lives (“The kids are out of school and I need to drive them to camps!” “It’s Father’s Day … again?!”) with a quieter time in their professional lives.

The first few waves of second deposit deadlines passed in early June, the next wave is coming up on June 15th, and while there has been activity on this front (as we’ve noted in past blog posts and will discuss again shortly), waitlist activity traditionally slows down between mid-June and early July.

AdComms at some law schools are continuing—slowly, deliberately, never-ending-ly—working their way through the surplus of apps that they received this year.

(A live view of an admissions officer celebrating after sending out the last wave of decisions for the 2024–2025 applicant pool.)

And on the horizon are matters to take care of for the coming cycle. AdComms need to submit their upcoming year’s application to LSAC for debugging and processing by early July. And—wouldn’t you know it—the 2025 law fair circuit is about to begin next month with LSAC’s Washington, D.C. Forum.

So let’s do our own quick circuit around the headlines from a quieter week in the world of law school admissions!

National LSAT Figures

The June LSAT has come and gone, and the results, per LSAC’s LSAT Registrants and Test Taker Volumes report, are a smidge of a mixed bag.

On the one hand, the final registration tally for June 2025 was 8.8% higher than June 2024. That continues our “hot streak” of increased LSAT registrations that began all the way back in October 2023. And this was the biggest June LSAT since 2017. That’s not nothing.

But….

On the other hand, registrations for the June LSAT were still north of 30,000 just two weeks ago, and we were looking at the biggest June exam since 2010. In the past two weeks, roughly 5,000 people (or about 16% of registrants) either canceled or rescheduled their LSAT. That’s a much higher percentage than we generally see in the week or two before an LSAT. We should also note that while the registration numbers for the June LSAT declined by 1,800 in the past week, the numbers for the August LSAT increased by 2,300. So while the June LSAT didn’t smash records, the combined June and August numbers are still pointing to the 2025–2026 app pool holding steady and/or going up again. This year’s application surge doesn’t appear to be going anywhere!

Waitlist Activity

We’re still seeing signs of waitlist life on both the r/LSA thread as well as lawschooldata.org. It’s possible we may see a bit more in the next week after we pass June 15th, since that’s a rather common date for second deposit deadlines.

We also continue to get clarity on what certain schools are doing at this juncture. For example, let’s take a look at Washington University’s most recent admits via their lsd.law profile:

While it’s just three data points, they all:

  • Have 4.0+ GPAs (so, above Wash U’s medians),
  • Have LSATs below Wash U’s medians, and
  • Received a good chunk of scholarship assistance.

It looks likely that Wash U is trying to boost their GPA and is willing and able to spend the money to get there.

Meanwhile, Columbia Law released a large portion of their waitlist on June 9th. You could follow the drama over on r/LSA:

Then if we go to CLS’s lawschooldata page, we see that it’s been a good long while since they’ve admitted someone (that lone green dot is from May 13th) and this is their first big wave of waitlist activity:

And if we examine the roster of lsd.law users who were let go from the waitlist, we see that it’s really across the statistical spectrum—high LSATs, high GPAs, applicants who were high on both stats and others that were low on both. So what to make of this situation?

  • If you combine the quiet nature of CLS’s waitlist activity to this point with the large number of waitlisted students that they just released, it would seem to indicate that Columbia’s class is full. If it wasn’t, we would have seen some sort of admission activity in the past month or CLS would have held on to a bigger waitlist going forward.
  • There are students who remain on CLS’s waitlist. While it seems unlikely that CLS will have significant—if any—admission activity going forward, those remaining waitlisted applicants can feel somewhat confident knowing that they’re still alive. If CLS didn’t think that they’d fit their statistical needs going forward and/or would be a good fit for the incoming class if a seat became available, the Columbia Law admissions team would have let them go, just like so many of their confreres on June 9th.
  • And what those remaining waitlisted students need to hope for is that CLS loses students to other schools. For example, if Harvard Law goes to their waitlist for another round or two of admission offers, that could conceivably open up seats at Columbia. Keep those fingers crossed for clear skies the next time a full moon is out and that “weird stuff” happens. Like, this author can tell you about the two separate times we lost an enrolling student over the course of the summer because they won their state’s competition for Miss America….

7Sage Events

Check out our AMA-style classes on June 11th and 18th wherein we’ll be happy to answer all your admissions questions! Looking ahead a few weeks, we’ll have a wave of “What Does My Score Mean?” sessions after the June LSAT results come back. Also, a reminder that you can check out our past sessions via our Class Library—just enter “Admissions” into the search bar.

The most recent episode of the 7Sage Admissions Podcast came out last week and was a “season recap” where we talk about the twists and turns from the past admissions year. Our next episode will drop on Monday and will feature a conversation with one of our 7Sage LSAT tutors about how to balance LSAT prep and your application process (spoiler—it is possible!). The podcasts are available on Amazon, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you stream your podcasts!