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University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law

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

 

ABA Status: Approved
Year Approved: 1950
Type of school: Public
Term: Semester
Deadline: February 1, 2007
Application Fee: $75
Applicants (Freshman Class; 2005 - 2006)
Applied: 7,286
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)
Full Time: $17,012
Tuition (Out of State)
Full Time: $17,012
Students receiving financial aid: 85%
Placement
J.D.'s Awarded: 327
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.Average GPA and LSAT Scores for University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law

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.

 


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