Legal Scholars Program Overview
The W&M Legal Scholars Program is a holistic program that seeks to enhance successful pathways in the legal profession for students who have overcome unusual adversity and/or are low-income or first-generation undergraduate students. All students interested in the program are invited to attend its events and presentations.
Rising 3rd year students, or 4th year students who are graduating and intend to take time away from school after graduation, are invited to apply to become Legal Scholars. A call for applications will go out during the spring semester and applications will be due in May each year. Legal Scholars will be notified of their admission into the program over the summer and they will begin the program in the fall of their third year (or the equivalent).
Those students accepted as Legal Scholars will take an LSAT prep course during the academic year and will take the LSAT the summer following their 3rd year (or the equivalent), no later than the August exam. Legal Scholars must be available to participate in an on-campus law school application boot camp during the last one or two weeks of May. Students will leave that boot camp with a near-final draft of their personal statement and other optional essays, having arranged for letters of recommendation, and having decided on a tentative list of law schools to which they will apply. There is no cost to participating students.
