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Law school applications are on the decline. A mere 55,700 students applied to law schools approved by the American Bar Association in 2014, according to data from the Law School Admission Council. That’s a far cry from the more than 100,000 prospective attorneys those schools drew a decade earlier.

But despite an overall dip in the applicant pool, these 10 universities stayed afloat, with each enticing thousands of law school hopefuls.

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For fall 2014, the law school at Georgetown University received the most full-time applications, drawing 7,793, according to data submitted to U.S. News by 189 ranked institutions.

Of course, more applications result in more rejection letters. The average acceptance rate for full-time students among the 10 universities was 24.4 percent, according to U.S. News data. All 10 law schools accepted fewer than half their applicants. Some law schools, such as Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, admitted fewer than 20 percent.

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On the flip side, the University of South Dakota, tied at No. 145 among law schools, had just 293 applicants, the least of any ranked law school, and admitted nearly 83 percent.

Below is a list of the 10 law schools that received the most full-time applications for fall 2014. Unranked schools, which did not meet certain criteria required by U.S. News to be numerically ranked, were not considered for this report.

Don’t see your school in the top 10? Access the U.S. News Law School Compass to find application data, complete rankings and much more. School officials can access historical data and rankings, including of peer institutions, via U.S. News Academic Insights.

U.S. News surveyed 201 ABA-accredited law schools for our 2014 survey of law programs. Schools self-reported myriad data regarding their academic programs and the makeup of their student body, among other areas, making U.S. News’ data the most accurate and detailed collection of college facts and figures of its kind. While U.S. News uses much of this survey data to rank schools for our annual Best Law Schools rankings, the data can also be useful when examined on a smaller scale. U.S. News will now produce lists of data, separate from the overall rankings, meant to provide students and parents a means to find which schools excel, or have room to grow, in specific areas that are important to them. While the data come from the schools themselves, these lists are not related to, and have no influence over, U.S. News’ rankings of Best Colleges, Best Graduate Schools or Best Online Programs. The application data above are correct as of March 24, 2015.