Before You Apply, Read The Black Student's Guide to Law Schools
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Posted By: Reginald Culpepper on December 09, 2013 If you're thinking about going to law school, Lawyers Of Color's Black Student's Guide to Law Schools is a must read. Inside this free magazine, you'll discover that in spite, or perhaps, because of the mounting crisis in the legal education, now might be the best time in decades to attend law school. This guide can help prospective students make smart decisions. "We are all aware of the additional barriers and challenges facing African Americans in the legal professional," said Lawyers of Color's publisher. "The increasing costs of securing a law degree and the decreasing legal job opportunities make pursuing a law degree a daunting task. Lawyers Of Color strives to equip black prospective law students with the tools to become discerning consumers of law school education." Because law school applications and black enrollment are down, law schools are providing more scholarships and financial aide. But what law schools are the best for you? The Black Student's Guide to Law Schools ranks the top 25 law schools for black students, as well as the best regional law schools and those providing the best bargains. The top five law schools are Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Yale and, surprise, Howard University! See the full list here. To rank law schools, Lawyers Of Color used objective criteria like job placement rates, black student and faculty percentages, and costs and eschew traditional subjective measures like "reputation" that tend to under value a school like Howard Law, which places as many black graduates in large law firms as do Ivy League law schools. Below are specific rankings criteria: - The Top 25 National Law Schools – the black law student population must equal or surpass the ABA’s black lawyer population of 4.8 percent; be included among the 50 go-to law schools for the NLJ 250; have had at least one Supreme Court clerk. - The 5 Best Regional Law Schools - the black law student population percentage must reflect or exceed one-third of the state’s black population percentage; tuition cannot exceed $20,000 in the southern and mountain regions, $24,000 in the Midwest region or $30,000 in the mid-atlantic, east coast, and west coast regions. - The 10 Best Bargain Law Schools - Heavier weight on cost of tuition and black law students. "We highly endorse the law schools that appear on our list," said Young. "After months of careful and meticulous research, we are confident these law schools provide the clearest path to law school success for future black attorneys." The Guide also reports on the drastically low black enrollment at flagship law schools in states that have disallowed race as a factor in admissions and reveal that some HBCU law schools are no longer majority black. It points to quotes by both President Obama and Chief Justice Roberts that suggest the need for law school reform. - Read the full publication at this link: http://www.onbeingablacklawyer.com/wordpre... - Undergraduate black student union presidents, as well as pre-law, political science, and multi-cultural clubs may request free print editions for your organizations at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1o7Id8EnFm... If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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Reginald Culpepper
President, Fulfillment and Web Services, HBCUCONNECT Clark Atlanta University class of 1998 Member Since September 2000 |
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