TRIALS

Training and Recruitment Initative for Admission to Leading Law Schools (TRIALS) is a full-scholarship residential program that helps talented and motivated college students of underrepresented backgrounds and modest means earn acceptance to the nation's leading law schools. The aim is to promote diversity in the field of law by reinforcing the skills and focusing the goals of college students whose backgrounds are underrepresented in the legal profession.

Trials is a unique collaboration of New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School, and the Advantage Testing Foundation, a public service organization dedicated to expanding opportunities for higher education. We forged this partnership because we are uniformly committed to intellectual rigor, outstanding teaching, and accessibility to deserving students of every background.

For five weeks in July and early August, Trials students reside at Harvard or NYU to receive intensive LSAT instruction and a series of lectures by prominent lawyers and scholars to introduce them to the legal profession. Students have no expenses associated with the program and will recieve a $3000 stipend to supplement their summer income.

ELIGIBILITY
Trials seeks to promote diversity at America's leading law schools and in the legal profession. Our explicit aim is to support students of modest means whose racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds are underrepresented in America's top-rated JD programs. We welcome applications from all motivated students of any background whose personal circumstances, self-identifications, and unique perspective might place them outside the mainstream of typical law school applicants.

We will give particular consideraton to those candidates who attend colleges that traditionally send no more than one graduate per year to the partnering law schools. Each summer, the majority of students enrolled in Trials will hail from such underrepresented institutions.

At this time, only U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible to enroll in the Trials program.

We take into account all aspects of a candidate's application, and we encourage all eligible students who are interested in attending, law school to apply to Trials. Application for the inaugural 2009 session are due March 31.

Learn more and apply online at http://trials.atfoundation.org