The Quote of the Day from Above the Law offers much food for thought:
This should serve as a wake-up call to everyone in legal education. This shift is particularly concerning because first-gen college graduates are a vital way to broaden who gets to be a part of the legal profession and what it means to promote access to justice throughout our society.
— Sudha Setty, president and the CEO of the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), in comments given to the ABA Journal, concerning the decline in law school enrollment of first-generation college graduates for the second consecutive year (23.95% for the 2024 1L class and 21.6% for the 2025 1L class). This data comes from an LSAC report on law school enrollment trends from 2021 to 2025. We are now two admissions cycles removed from the Supreme Court’s 2023 landmark decision in Students for Fair Admissions, which ended affirmative action.
Here is the LSAC post about the first gen data.



