Elevating Admissions Strategies

JD-Next uses data-driven insights and an effective structure to transform law school admissions, helping candidates attain 1L success while laying the foundation for long-term achievement.

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Elevating Admissions Strategies How JD Next Benefits Law Schools

Data Driven Admissions

Law schools today face pressure on their admissions processes to enhance prediction and inclusivity. JD-Next offers a data-driven approach beyond traditional metrics, improving academic readiness and opportunity to legal education.

Measuring Success Through Collaborative Data

Law school’s partnering with JD-Next gain valuable data insights. Research confirms its predictive validity, reliability, and fairness—improving admissions decisions beyond LSAT and GPA models.

Law Student Focused

Identifying Candidates with Real-World Skills

JD-Next’s design measures competencies essential for 1L success, such as legal analysis and problem-solving. By emphasizing practical abilities, JD-Next enables you to identify candidates who are more likely to excel in the classroom and beyond.

Improving Candidate Readiness

JD-Next is both an admissions tool and law school preparation program, offering an 8-week course that builds law school skills. Studies show participants average higher first-year GPAs than non-participants, while also performing better on the bar exam.

Prepare Students for Success

JD-Next helps students from non-traditional backgrounds by bridging gaps in legal education. It provides a realistic law school preview while building essential skills for long-term academic and professional success.

Providing Opportunity

Competitive Parity

JD-Next offers a clear advantage in offering fair competition for all groups by reducing financial and psychological barriers. The program’s cost-effective and accessible format encourages applications from a broader pool of candidates. JD-Next is affordable and designed to be accessible.

Promoting Fair Competition

JD-Next scores exhibit smaller, non-significant disparities among racial and ethnic groups compared to traditional tests. This is particularly critical in the current landscape, where impartial tools are essential. By encouraging applications from underrepresented groups, JD-Next aligns with law schools’ commitments to creating a broader legal profession.

Partnering With JD-Next

JD-Next gives law schools the option to use it as a standalone admissions test with an ABA variance or alongside traditional tests. Over 30% of U.S. law schools have received variances, using JD-Next to enhance admissions data and improve fairness and effectiveness.

Why JD-Next?

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Realistic Preview of Law School:

JD-Next provides participants with a glimpse of what law school will be like, helping them build confidence and preparedness.

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Relevant Skill Development:

The program teaches skills directly applicable to law school, such as case analysis, rather than general reasoning.

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Consistent Outcomes:

Unlike other standardized tests, JD-Next produces little to no score gap between minority and majority racial and ethnic groups.

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Expanded Opportunities:

JD-Next fosters opportunities by reducing financial and psychological barriers encouraging applications from underrepresented groups.

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Discover how JD-Next can help your law school and students succeed.

For more information, contact jd.next@aspenpublishing.com.