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NAPLA
37th Annual Conference:
“A New Haven for Pre-Law Advising”
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Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
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| Dates |
Wednesday, June 10, to Saturday, June 13, 2009 |
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| Payment |
Conference fees can be paid by check or through PayPal via NAPLA’s website (pre-law advisors, law school representatives, commercial exhibitors).
Please remember to mail or fax a conference registration form to Frank Homer, Registrar, noting on the form if the payment was completed through PayPal.
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Program |
The conference program may assist you in making plans. Sessions include:
- Marketing Pre-Law Programs To Administrators, Faculty, and Staff On Your Campus – a joint session with new and veteran pre-law advisors
- Mock Admissions
- Summer Programs for Underrepresented and Economically Disadvantaged Applicants
- Advising Applicants with an LSAT Score Lower Than 150
- Technology and Pre-Law Advising
- On-campus LSAT Prep
- Financing Law School
- Writing Personal Statements, Addenda, Résumés and Follow up Letters
- Building a Prelaw Program and Outreach Pipeline
- Assistance with Personal Statements (Limits and Guidelines) – The Ethics of Personal Statement Review
- Alternative Approaches to Legal Education
- Clinical Programs at Law Schools
- Loan Repayment Assistance Programs
- Disclosure Issues on Law School Applications
- Legal Internship Opportunities for Undergraduate, Pre-Law Students
- Advising Students with Disabilities
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| Program Highlights |
- The conference will begin on June 10 with the New Pre-Law Advisors Workshop for those new to pre-law advising.
- For more experienced advisors, we offer the Veteran Pre-Law Advisors Workshop.
- Yale Law School will host a dinner Wednesday evening at which Dean Harold Koh will welcome us.
- Over the next several days, we will visit Quinnipiac University School of Law and University ofConnecticut School of Law.
- The Law Fair will provide an opportunity for an exchange of information between advisors and law school admissions officers.
- We’ll learn about the latest developments at LSAC .
- We’ll spend an evening at Amarante's Sea Cliff, overlooking the Long Island Sound.
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| Accommodations |
Arrangements have been made with several New Haven area hotels for reduced rates.
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| Travel to Site |
Information about travel to New Haven and about local attractions is available on the Visitor's Gateway pages of Yale's website.
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| Conference Co-Chairs |
Barbara Landress Barbara.Landress@nyu.edu
Cindy Cogdill cfc5@columbia.edu |
| Program Documents
| Reviewing Personal Statements Suzanne Young, Yale (doc)
Legal Employment Trends for Law School Graduates James Leipold, NALP (ppt)
Loan Repayment Assistance Programs and the College Cost Reductions and Access Act Heather Jarvis, Equal Justice (scroll down to ppt "Slideshow: Tuition, Debt and LRAPs for Pre-law Advisors" on Equal Justice web site)
Proving Your Worth: The Value of a Pre-Law Program to Your College and University Yvette Simpson, Miami University (pdf)
LSAC Update Anne Brandt, LSAC (ppt) |
NAPLA Prior Conferences |
| 2008, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
| 2007, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2006, George Mason School of Law, Washington, D.C. |
| 2005, Fordham School of Law, New York, NY |
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