¹ The confidentiability of replies was assured to encourage responses. Letters quoted here are therefore not attributed to their authors. Similarly, schools are not identified with the preferences and opinions expressed. It may be useful, however, to list those universities from which one or more graduate and professional schools responded.

University of California (1). University of Chicago (4), Columbia University (2), University of Connecticut (4), Cornell University (3), Duke University (3), Harvard University (3), Indiana University (1), Jefferson University (1), Johns Hopkins University (1), University of Maryland (1), University of Michigan (2), Northwestern University (1), New York University (2), University of Pennsylvania (3), University of Rochester (3), Stanford University (2), Syracuse University (3), Union University (2), Vanderbilt University (3), University of Virginia (2), Yale University (3).

² The rising tide of law school applications was reflected in the numbers taking the LSAT: 60,503 in the 1968–69 academic year and 109,318 in 1970–71.

³ Educational Testing Service, Law School Admission Bulletin (Princeton, New Jersey, 1971), p. 35.Google Scholar