Sentences with phrase «of law school applicants»

[Footnote 14] In 1993 blacks constituted 1.1 % of law school applicants in that score range, though they represented 11.1 % of all applicants.

A likely change in legal education now made obvious by the decline in the number of law school applicants.

A recent survey conducted by Kaplan Test Prep revealed that, while the number of law school applicants has declined in the past few years, the quality of the applicant pool is increasing, making law school admissions more competitive than ever.

Since 2004, the number of law school applicants has steadily declined.

The number of law school applicants is rising and the number of jobs are staying even, if not shrinking.

I don't doubt that correcting the heavy over-population of lawyers will take more than a few years, but this seems like a rather significant drop in the number of law school applicants.

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And by law, it must be authorized by the applicant,» says Mitchell D. Weiss of the University of Hartford Barney School of Business and author of Life Happens: A Practical Guide to Personal Finance from College to Career.

If it is desirable for Harvard Law School to reject every white applicant whose credentials fall within a certain range while accepting every similarly qualified black applicant, why not apply this practice to the entire range of applicants, and reject all whites for a period of several years?

It is the policy of Linden Waldorf School to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, marital status, status as a covered veteran, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status, in accordance with federal and state law, and not to discriminate on the basis thereof.

The chief operation officer of numerous bar associations, community organizations, and law schools designated the following members to the panel, which will report the three (3) «most highly qualified» candidates from among the seven applicants (all lower court judges) for the one (1) «open» seat.

The proposed L.I. in question, among other things, states that the General Legal Council will conduct an entrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examinschool, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance ExaminSchool of Law Entrance Examination.

The proposed LI in question, among other things, states that the General Legal Council will conduct an entrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examinschool, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance ExaminSchool of Law Entrance Examination.

In June of 2003, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the University of Michigan Law School could consider an applicant's race in making admission decisions (1, 2).

By law, the charter school will be open to students from anywhere in the city's five boroughs, which means a lottery to choose the incoming classes from a broader pool of applicants.

After 39 applicants went home losers from the first round of the Race to the Top competition, many states regrouped and raised the stakes for round two — changing laws to revamp teacher evaluations, drumming up more support from districts and teachers» unions, and getting more aggressive about turning around low - performing schools.

Charter schools ARE public schools: By law, they must adhere to all public education laws, hire appropriately licensed teachers, follow the same curriculum standards as do traditional school districts, take the same standardized, state - wide assessments and are free of tuition and open to all applicants.

In none of these U-T pieces did the author correctly inform readers that charter schools must use lotteries mandated by both federal and state law when the number of applicants for their school exceeds the seats available.

1012.32, 1012.55, and 1012.56, or any other provision of law or rule to the contrary, district school boards shall adopt rules to allow for the issuance of an adjunct teaching certificate to any applicant who fulfills the requirements of s. 1012.56 (2)(a)- (f) and (10) and who has expertise in the subject area to be taught.

DOJ's Office of Open Government has issued an advisory to public school applicants related to Wisconsin's Public Records Law.

Only five new charter schools are authorized in the first year of the Washington law, and the first five applicants to win approval would exhaust that allocation.

He said the provision of the law requiring students to have recently obtained an IEP from a public - school district kept many potential applicants away.

So far, Governor Chris Christie's policies have been decidedly pro-charter; in January, the DOE approved 23 new charter schools — about half of all applicants, and the largest number approved in a single year since the charter law was passed in 1995.

Lottery Information: Charter School Law states that if the number of completed New Hampshire applications submitted to a charter school exceeds the capacity of the school, eligible applicants must have a fair and equal chance of being admitted through a loSchool Law states that if the number of completed New Hampshire applications submitted to a charter school exceeds the capacity of the school, eligible applicants must have a fair and equal chance of being admitted through a loschool exceeds the capacity of the school, eligible applicants must have a fair and equal chance of being admitted through a loschool, eligible applicants must have a fair and equal chance of being admitted through a lottery.

By law, each charter public school is required to conduct a blind lottery when the number of applicants exceeds the number of available spaces.

If the Board received more than 12 applications in a single year from qualified applicants, then the proposed law would require it to give priority to proposed charter schools or enrollment expansions in districts where student performance on statewide assessments is in the bottom 25 % of all districts in the previous two years and where demonstrated parent demand for additional public school options is greatest.

Summit Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity and / or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, military status, pregnancy, parenthood, citizenship status, creed, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

By law, applicants to these charter schools are offered admission on the basis of a randomized lottery.

Selection criteria include the applicant's commitment to public service, type of work, salary, law school loan debt, personal statement, cost of living in the applicant's residence locale, and financial circumstances.

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Applicant must have no more than 5 years of experience within public service programs, have a gross income of less than $ 55,000, and have over $ 50,000 in law school related debt.

Applicants must be licensed in Oregon, but the program is not limited to graduates of Oregon law schools.

In accordance with state law, schools may require male applicants between the ages of 18 and 25 to submit proof of registration with military selective service.

Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law applicants can now use the GRE exam for admission featured in «Above the Law» by Kathryn Rubino

On each segment, we go in - depth on a particular topic of interest to a law school applicant and interview relevant experts to help make the application application process more efficient and successful and to help law school applicants gain acceptance to the right law school for them.»

Today, most states require that applicants be graduates of ABA - accredited law schools before they can take the state's bar examination.

Ross E. Mitchell, a graduate of the wholly online Concord Law School, was initially denied permission to take the Massachusetts bar exam, based on the state's rule that applicants be graduates of law schools accredited by the American Bar AssociatiLaw School, was initially denied permission to take the Massachusetts bar exam, based on the state's rule that applicants be graduates of law schools accredited by the American Bar Associatilaw schools accredited by the American Bar Association.

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Aaron did a good job of giving prospective law school applicants a moment of pause before they starting firing off applications to whatever school will take them.

It is a form of discrimination, and schools like Osgoode have been able to alleviate some of the effects of this by looking past the LSAT scores to encapsulate an assessment of their applicants by looking at things like community involvement academic performance, and challenges faced by certain minorities in applying to Law school.

In both cases, the applicants sought waiver of the requirement that they be graduates of an ABA - accredited law school.

If law schools want to attract applicants who are resilient, creative, diverse, and have depth / intelligence, surely they can come up with a better way to efficiently weed out those who don't make the grade in a manner that doesn't also weed out an entire segment of the population.

In 2000, only approximately 100 Ontario licensing applicants came through the National Committee on Accreditation (NCA) having attended law school outside of Canada.

Harvard Law's recent relaxation of the LSAT requirements by allowing applicants to take the GRE has spurred a debate in the Canadian context about whether it is prudent to maintain the strict LSAT requirements for law school admissioLaw's recent relaxation of the LSAT requirements by allowing applicants to take the GRE has spurred a debate in the Canadian context about whether it is prudent to maintain the strict LSAT requirements for law school admissiolaw school admissions.

More law school applicants will have a chance to earn their JD's in Canada, rather than spend their tuition money out of country.

The standard permits law schools with a religious affiliation or purpose to give preference to applicants who are members of that religion or purpose, «only to the extent that those policies are protected by the United States Constitution,» Standard 205 states.

First, in my role as Director of Admissions at the University of Calgary I have read some 2000 statements by law school applicants answering the very question posed by the OBA: «Why do you want to go to law school?»

The Law School Admissions Council has released data on law school applicants for 2012, showing a significant drop in the number of applicants across the countLaw School Admissions Council has released data on law school applicants for 2012, showing a significant drop in the number of applicants across the coSchool Admissions Council has released data on law school applicants for 2012, showing a significant drop in the number of applicants across the countlaw school applicants for 2012, showing a significant drop in the number of applicants across the coschool applicants for 2012, showing a significant drop in the number of applicants across the country.

The director of admissions at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall accidently sent an e-mail to thousands of applicants implying that they had been accepted to the prestigious law school, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

A different finding emerged in 1996 in Hopwood v. Texas, where several white applicants to University of Texas School of Law were successful in finding discrimination when they were denied admission despite having superior LSAT and GPA scores than other candidates.

It's important to understand other data — the percentages of minority students in that state's law schools; the state's bar passage rate of minority - identifying applicants; and the percentage of actively practicing diverse attorneys in the state.