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A September 14 article in the Wisconsin Law Journal (noted elsewhere on this website) included the chart to the left.\u00a0 Although the story was innocuous enough, reporting that applications to law school in Wisconsin went up last year in spite of the economic downturn, the accompanying chart gives the impression that applications to the University of Wisconsin Law School dramatically exceed those of Marquette.\u00a0 A quick glance seems to suggest that for the fall of 2009, Wisconsin received more than twice as many applications as Marquette since the red bar appears to be more than twice as long as the blue bar.<\/p>\n
That isn\u2019t true, and the problem is the misleading presentation of the graph.<\/p>\n
While it is true that Wisconsin does receive more applications than Marquette, the discrepancy is not nearly as great as the graph seems to suggest.\u00a0 The problem, as anyone who looks at the graph carefully will see, is that it reproduces only the top half of the bar graph showing the relative number of applications at the two law schools.<\/p>\n
In fact, if one looks at the entire graph, then it becomes clear that the Wisconsin lead is a more modest one.\u00a0 For the fall of 2007, Marquette\u2019s application total was 68% of the Madison total.\u00a0 For 2008, the number jumped to 79%, before falling back to 72% for 2009.\u00a0 Until 2009, Marquette had been gaining on Madison at a fairly rapid pace.\u00a0 It seems likely that, in a time of economic downturn, the fact that private Marquette has a\u00a0much higher tuition than public Wisconsin served to\u00a0discourage applicants who may well have applied in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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