The College of Law

A law school application is about making one’s case for admission. Thus, I’ll make this addendum my closing argument. I recognize that my LSAT scores are significantly below your school’s LSAT percentiles – and I take full responsibility for my scores – but let me take the opportunity to explain why I should strongly be considered for admission nonetheless. First, despite what my LSAT scores imply, I believe my application makes a compelling argument that one can reliably predict that I have the ability to do very well in law school and as prospective attorney. As my transcript and academic record can verify, I believe I have the intellectual capacity to understand and critically analyze the rigorous legal curriculum. From working with other attorneys for the past two years, I know I have the ability to think, argue, and write like a…

Despite my major being finance my second interest has been law. My freshman year I took Business Law 1 with Cecilia Cook. I didn’t realize that an elective that my advisor at freshman orientation would suggest I take a class that I would truly benefit from. In that class I got introduced to the basics of law. I came out of that class with an A and I believe that that was not due to the fact that I had to study hard and force myself to work at it, it was because I was truly interested in the…

American University Law School’s campus is beautiful; the classrooms are new, spacious, and sometimes well-lit. I was really excited to have the opportunity to sit in a real law school class amongst unrehearsed law students, which would give me an insight into the inner workings of a law school classroom. The experience was rewarding in more ways than one and it also reinforced my plans to attend law school. My expectations were unclear, as I had sat in a Torts class before, but this time I sat…

“A lawyer is required to be talented and further a hard worker” Those were the very first words I was told by my father after I decided to become a lawyer, and those exact words have inspired me throughout my profession. My passion for law can be tracked back to my childhood, when I was seven years old as I saw my father for the first time in trial, standing for his client´s rights. The correctness and the pursuit of the truth held in that trial made me realize that there are not greater people…

Gun Laws and Regulations Regulations and Gun rights for college campuses is something that has many people questioning the laws. The legislative passing a law allowing college employees and students to carry guns is not the greatest idea. All college students shouldn’t be allowed to carry hand guns. The law should remain as keeping concealed licenses then traversing into open-carry license. There’s a great debate on rather teachers should have the right to be armed which in my opinion could…

CUNY law school presents a good instance of the gap that exists in gender enrollment of the freshmen in CUNY college system and the private college system, which also is prevalent in most of the colleges in New York. The male freshmen students in the CUNY College present a percentage ratio of 35.4% against the female percent, which is overwhelmingly huge, 64.6%. Female freshmen entry is higher than male freshmen entry in CUNY College. This indicates the number of the freshmen; both, males and…

Annotated Bibliography Bush, Joel. "Student or Professional Athlete - Tax Implications in the United States If College Athletes Were to Be Classified as Paid Employees." Labor Law Journal, vol. 68, no. 1, Spring2017, pp. 58-63. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=121769969&site=ehost-live. This is an article from the Labor Law Journal. The author of this article is an assistant professor at Lucas College and Graduate School of Business. He graduated from San Jose…

In 2015, Texas became another state to allow concealed carry weapons on college campuses. The law allowing concealed carry weapons on campus (Senate Bill 11) will take effect on August 1, 2016 for all state 4-year colleges and universities and August 1, 2017 for 2-year and junior colleges. To carry a gun on campus each student must have a concealed handgun license (CHL) and be 21 years old, while also meeting the state and federal qualifications to own a handgun. While the handgun is allowed to…

A nonprofit corporation administering products and services for facilitating admissions processes for colleges of law and their applicants refers to the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC). And despite the fact no official relationship exists linking the LSAC to the American Bar Association (ABA), all ABA-accredited institutions have LSAC membership. Of the four SUSF colleges of law selected by our prospect, all applicant-mandated information submits to the LSAC, necessitating the creation of a…

Since the moment I decided to pursue becoming an advocate attorney I knew that I needed to attend a top-notch law school. If other people’s well-beings and futures were going to be in my hands then I needed to receive the best legal education I could. I visited South Texas College of Law in July of 2015 at an open house that made me realize that this was the school I had been looking for. The students who spoke on the panel and gave tours demonstrated the camaraderie between the students at…