When Hadi Kiani was shown the surging number of law school applicants, his jaw dropped. Kiani, a fourth-year Media, Information and Technoculture and School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities student, applied to Western Law in October. The program saw a 31 per cent increase in applications over last year and a 37 per cent increase over 2019. According to Linda Miller, Westernâs vice-provost for graduate and postdoctoral studies, the rise in applications is the same across Western Universityâs graduate programs. âAlthough we continue to receive applications for many of our programs, to date in this yearâs application cycle, we have seen an overall increase in applications for both our Masterâs programs [13 per cent] and our Doctoral programs [25 per cent] compared to the same point in time last year,â Miller said in a statement to the