The Gittis Center for Legal StudiesEmail: clinic@law.upenn.eduTel: 215.898.8427Fax: 215.573.6783 JD Admissions & Financial AidEmail: contactadmissions@law.upenn.eduAdmissions Tel: 215.898.7400Financial Assistance Tel: 215.898.7743Fax: 215.898.9606 Since 2000, Penn has served seven alumni as law clerks on the U.S. Supreme Court. This record gives Penn a 10th place among all law schools for the provision of such law clerks for the period 2000-2019. [62] Penn has placed 48 employees on the U.S. Supreme Court over the course of its history, ranking 11th among law schools; This group includes Curtis R. Reitz, Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law, Emeritus at Penn. When legal education was formalized, the school launched a three-year program and introduced strict admission requirements. For the J.D.class which will enter in autumn 2023, 14.6% of the 6,146 candidates were offered admission, 249 registered. The class had the 25th and 75th percentiles LSAT of 164 and 171, respectively, with a median of 170. [13] The 25th and 75th percentiles of GPA in the bachelor`s degree were 3.57 and 3.95, respectively, with a median of 3.89.
[42] [43] 13% of students enrolled identified as first-generation students and 29% as first-generation professional students. US LLM Admissions Series, join representatives from the University of Chicago School of Law, Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School, NYU Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and Penn Carey Law to share dynamic insights into the LLM program experience at a leading U.S. law school. followed by individual Q&A meeting rooms. Participants are welcome to attend any event, regardless of their time zone. Link below for registration: October 6, 2022, Europe, Middle East and Africa, 1:00 p.m. EDT October 12, 2022, Asia and Oceania, 8:00 a.m. EDT October 19, 2022, Latin America, 4:00 p.m. EDT Graduate Programs AdmissionsEmail: gradadms@law.upenn.eduTel.
: 215.898.0407Fax: 215.898.6979 Biddle Law LibraryEmail: AskBiddle@law.upenn.eduCirculation: 215.898.9012Reference: 215.898.7853Fax: 215.898.6619 Except for the period during which Penn Law`s military recruiter policy When the military openly refused to hire gays, bisexuals, and lesbians,[34] Penn Law actively supported the armed forces. The Harold Cramer Memorial Scholarship Program was launched in June 2021 to ensure that all veterans admitted to Penn Law can afford to attend Penn Law. [35] Due to the limited resources of the university, we must consider the overall financial situation of each student. As a result, the Faculty of Law requires applicants for financial aid and their families (with the exception of students over the age of 30 as of December 31 of the year of registration) to complete the Parents, Students and Spouses sections (if applicable) of the CSS Profile grant application. As a graduate candidate, you are considered “independent” under federal guidelines and only need to complete the FAFSA student sections. Your credentials to access the application status checker have been included in your request confirmation email. If you don`t see this email in the inbox of the email address we stored for you, you should check your spam or junk folders. If you need to reset your username and password, please email us at contactadmissions@law.upenn.edu. Yes, we accept transfer applications from students who have completed one year of full-time study at an American Bar Association-accredited law school and a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Students who wish to apply for a transfer to law school must apply before their second year of law school. We do not accept students transferring beyond the first year of law school; However, a student may apply as a visiting student to law school for a maximum of one year of study during the second or third year of law school. Further information on how to apply as a transferred or guest student can be found in the Transfer Students or Non-Enrolled/Guest Students sections.