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University of California
at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law
Law Admissions Office, 71
Dodd Hall, Box 951445 Los Angeles, CA
90095-1445 Phone: 310.825.2080
E-mail: admissions@law.ucla.edu;
Website: www.law.ucla.edu
| Deadline: |
February 1, 2007 |
Applicants (Freshman Class; 2005 - 2006)
|
Applied: |
7,286 |
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Accepted: |
965 |
|
Enrolled: |
305 |
|
Average Age: |
25 |
Student Body (2005 - 2006)
|
Median LSAT: |
166 |
|
Median GPA: |
3.68 |
|
Women: |
48% |
|
Minority: |
31% |
| Passed
Bar Exam on first try: |
92% |
Tuition (In State)
Tuition (Out of State)
| Students
receiving financial aid: |
85% |
Placement
| Placed
within 9 months: |
96% |
| Average
starting salary: |
$35,000 - $145,000 |
Areas of placement
|
Academic: |
1% |
|
Business: |
5% |
|
Government: |
3% |
|
Judicial Clerks: |
5% |
| Law
Firm (2 - 10 attorneys): |
10% |
| Law
Firm (11 - 25 attorneys): |
7% |
| Law
Firm (26 - 50 attorneys): |
4% |
| Law
Firm (51 - 100 attorneys): |
5% |
|
Military: |
1% |
|
Public Interest: |
3% |
Library Resources
|
Number of Volumes: |
630,825 |
|
Number of Titles: |
230,482 |
|
Number of Subscriptions: |
8,482 |
Introduction
The School of
Law is set on the beautiful UCLA campus,
located in the foothills of the Santa Monica
Mountains. Our location provides ready
access to the exciting city of Los Angeles
while at the same time offering students a
refuge from urban life.
Library
The renovated
and expanded law library gives UCLA law
students a spacious, electronically equipped
facility for quiet study and reflection. The
UCLA library system is among the top ten
research libraries in the US.
Admission
All applicants
must have a baccalaureate degree from an
accredited university or college of approved
standing and must take the LSAT no later
than the December administration. Students
are admitted for the fall semester only.
Admission is
based primarily on proven outstanding
academic and intellectual ability measured
largely by the LSAT and the quality of
undergraduate education as determined by not
only the GPA, but also by such factors as
the breadth, depth, and rigor of the
undergraduate educational program. The
Admissions Committee may also consider
whether economic, physical, or other
hardships and challenges have been overcome.
Distinctive programmatic contributions,
community or public service, letters of
recommendation, work experience, career
achievement, language ability, and career
goals (with particular attention paid to the
likelihood of the applicant representing
underrepresented communities) are also
factors taken into consideration.
UCLA accepts
transfer applications into the second-year
class from students with excellent
first-year credentials from an
ABA-accredited law school. Transfer
applications are available online in May and
due in early July.
Residency
Applicants
admitted to the law school as nonresident
students (for tuition purposes) are eligible
to be considered for resident classification
if certain eligibility requirements are met.
Most nonresident law students achieve
residency status during the second year of
law school.
Financial Aid
Financial
assistance is available in the form of
scholarships, need-based grants, and
educational loans. The FAFSA must be filed
by March 2. The Summary of Financial
Resources should be submitted with the law
school application, both of which are due on
or before February 1.
Curriculum
The law school
offers a three-year, full-time course of
study leading to a Juris Doctor degree.
Evening, summer, or part-time programs are
not offered. UCLA differs from many other institutions in
that it invests major resources in its
first-year Lawyering Skills Program. This
program combines the beginning of skills
training, such as client interviewing and
counseling, with traditional legal research
and writing.
As a
requirement for graduation, each student
must complete a Substantial Analytic Writing
(SAW) project during the second or third
year of law school.
The Clinical
Education Program provides extensive and
rigorous practical training through
simulated and actual client contact.
Examples of clinical courses regularly
offered are the Environmental Law Clinic,
Trial Advocacy, Doing Business in China, and
Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation.
In addition to
the JD degree, we offer a one-year Master of
Laws (LLM) Program for domestic and foreign
students seeking a year of advanced legal
studies. Concentrations are available in
Business Law, Entertainment and Media Law
and Policy, International and Comparative
Law, and design-it-yourself concentrations
in a range of fields.
The Doctor of
Juridical Science (SJD) is a highly
selective degree program designed for those
pursuing careers as teachers and scholars of
law. Applicants must hold a JD degree or
foreign equivalent and an LLM degree (or be
enrolled in a program leading to an LLM
degree).
Special Programs
The Public
Interest Law and Policy Program marks a
distinct break with the way schools have
traditionally trained lawyers for public
interest careers. This program, which has a
limited enrollment of 25 students, builds on
the array of public interest oriented
courses, programs, and activities.
Participants take a special section of
Lawyering Skills and participate in a
first-year workshop, advanced seminars, and
extracurricular programs.
The Program in
Business Law and Policy offers second- and
third-year law students a unique program
that integrates corporate law, commercial
law, and tax law.
The Critical
Race Studies Concentration is available to
second- and third-year students. This
specialization is appropriate for law
students who seek advanced study in areas
such as race and the law, critical race
theory, civil rights, public policy, and
other legal practice areas that are likely
to involve working with racial minority
clients and communities or working to combat
inequalities.
The Williams
Project is the nation’s first think tank
dedicated to the field of sexual orientation
law and public policy. The project supports
legal scholarship, legal research, policy
analysis, and education regarding sexual
orientation discrimination and other legal
issues that affect lesbian and gay people.
The
Entertainment and Media Law and Policy
Program provides second- and third-year
students with a solid grounding in the law,
custom, theory, and policy attendant to the
practice of law in the motion picture,
television, music, and other industries
involved in creative and artistic matters.
The law school
also has a full-time, semester-long Judicial
and Agency Externship Program. Nonprofit and
government agency placements are primarily
in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and
Washington, DC; judicial externships are
with federal judges in Los Angeles.
Academic Support
more than 30
student organizations. The Moot Court Honors
Program is open
to all second-year students and offers a
large UCLA School of Law is a recognized
leader in academic and effective program of
mock appellate advocacy. In addition,
support, providing assistance to students
both before there is a very active Student
Bar Association. matriculation and
throughout their law school careers.
Joint Degrees
UCLA School of Law offers preapproved
programs that lead to a joint Juris Doctor
and master’s degrees in Afro-American
Studies, American Indian Studies, Business
Administration, Public Health, Public
Policy, Social Welfare, and Urban Planning.
In addition to the formal concurrent degree
programs listed above, students may design
an individually tailored joint-degree
program drawing from multiple disciplines in
UCLA’s vast curriculum.
Student Activities
Students edit and publish the UCLA Law
Review, Asian Pacific American Law Journal,
Chicano/Latino Law Review, National Black
Law Journal, UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal,
Entertainment Law Review, UCLA Journal of
Environmental Law and Policy, UCLA Journal
of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, UCLA
Journal of Law and Technology, Dukeminier
Journal of Sexual Orientation and Law,
UCLAWomen’s Law Journal, The Indigenous
Peoples Journal of Law, Culture and
Resistance, and the UCLA Journal of
International and Foreign Affairs. Diverse
student interests are represented in
more than 30 student organizations. The Moot
Court Honors Program is open to all
second-year students and offers a large and
effective program of mock appellate
advocacy. In addition, there is a very
active Student Bar Association.
Housing
Many housing options are open to UCLA School
of Law students. There are university-owned
apartments for single graduate students,
single students who are parents, and married
students with or without children. Also
available for rent are privately owned
apartments as well as rooms and guesthouses
in neighboring homes.
Career Services
The Office of Career Services coordinates
on-campus interviews and other career fairs
with approximately 400 interviewers from law
firms, corporations, government agencies,
and public interest organizations who visit
the school annually. The office offers
private counseling sessions to students and
alumni. It also sponsors educational
programs and receptions, including a
practice specialty series with
practitioners, a mock-interview program, a
government reception and information fair,
and a small/midsize law firm reception. In
the Class of 2004, there was a 99.6 percent
employment rate nine months after
graduation. |
