| Fall 2010 Admissions Information |
| Director of admissions
|
Gail Benson |
| Application deadline
|
03/01 |
| Full-time program application fee
|
$60
|
| Part-time program application fee
|
$60
|
| Besides the fall semester, can enter in
|
N/A |
| Fall 2008 Admissions and Enrollment Statistics |
| Total number of full- and part-time applicants
|
2,332 |
| Total number of full- and part-time acceptances
|
1,010 |
| Overall acceptance rate
|
43.3% |
| Total number of full- and part-time first-year
students enrolled
|
255 |
| Number of full-time program applicants
|
2,332 |
| Number of full-time program acceptances
|
1,010 |
| Full-time acceptance rate
|
43.3% |
| Number of first-year full-time students enrolled
|
255 |
| Number of part-time program applicants
|
0 |
| Number of part-time program acceptances
|
0 |
| Part-time acceptance rate
|
N/A |
| Number of first-year part-time students enrolled
|
0 |
| Fall 2008 GPA and LSAT Scores |
| 25th-75th percentile GPA scores for all students
|
2.9-3.56 |
| 25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for all students
|
152-156 |
| 25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for
full-time students
|
2.9-3.56 |
| 25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for full-time
students
|
152-156 |
| 25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for
part-time students
|
N/A |
| 25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for part-time
students
|
N/A |
| Bar Statistics (Winter and Summer 2007 administrations) |
| State where the greatest number of first-time test
takers took the bar
|
NY |
| School's bar passage rate for first-time test
takers
|
85.8% |
| Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test
takers
|
76.7% |
| Class of 2007 Graduates |
| Total graduates
|
237 |
| Graduates employed at graduation
|
N/A |
| Graduates known to be employed nine months after
graduation
|
97.5% |
| Starting Salaries of 2007 Graduates Employed Full-time |
| 25th percentile private sector starting salary
|
$50,000
|
| Median private sector starting salary
|
$63,500
|
| 75th percentile private sector starting salary
|
$100,000
|
| Percent in the private sector who reported salary
information
|
62% |
| Median public service starting salary
|
$50,000
|
| Areas of Legal Practice (Class of 2007) |
| Percent employed in academia
|
3.0% |
| Percent employed in business and industry
|
19.0% |
| Percent employed in government
|
19.0% |
| Percent employed in all judicial clerkships
|
9.0% |
| Percent employed in law firms
|
43.0% |
| Percent employed in public interest
|
4.0% |
| Percent employed in an unknown field
|
3.0% |
| Percent employed in a judicial clerkship by an
Article III federal judge
|
1.0% |
| 2007 Graduates Employment Location |
| Graduates employed in-state
|
83% |
| Graduates employed in foreign countries
|
0% |
| Number of states where graduates are employed
|
15 |
| New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)
|
5.2% |
| Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)
|
86.9% |
| East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)
|
0.9% |
| West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD)
|
0.0% |
| South Atlantic (DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA,
WV)
|
3.5% |
| East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN)
|
0.0% |
| West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)
|
0.9% |
| Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)
|
1.3% |
| Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY)
|
0.9% |
| Employment location unknown
|
0.0% |
| Career Services |
| Career services operations: Career counseling, interviews on/off-campus
nationwide, plethora of career education programs, innovative online
job search system, private online database of international
opportunities. Great rapport with thousands of employers who give
highest ratings to attentive staff. Success relies on international
base of alumni who work in the most prestigious law firms and top
government jobs. |
| Job Type |
| Bar admission required or anticipated (e.g.,
attorney and corporate counsel positions, law clerks, judicial
clerks)
|
75.0% |
| J.D. preferred, law degree enhances position
(e.g., corporate contracts administrator, alternative dispute
resolution specialist, government regulatory analyst, FBI special
agent) |
18.0% |
| Professional/other (jobs that require professional
skills or training but for which a J.D. is neither preferred nor
particularly applicable; e.g., accountant, teacher, business
manager, nurse) |
4.0% |
| Nonprofessional/other (job that does not require
any professional skills or training or is taken on a temporary basis
and not viewed as part of a career path) |
3.0% |
