Pre-Law Professional Program
Let your intellectual curiosity shine towards a legal career!
Since our founding, hundreds of New College graduates have successfully pursued legal careers. Our exceptional fearless learning and forward-thinking academic program, along with dynamic 经历 outside the classroom, offer New College students the perfect mix of skills and preparation needed to pursue law school. Our Pre-Law Professional Community helps connect pre-law students to special programs, 活动, 经历, and preparation that sets them apart from other law school applicants. Through personalized pre-law advising and career coaching, students in the Pre-Law Professional Community have the professional and peer support to achieve their goals.
Join the Pre-Law Professional Community!
攻读法学院? Please email pre-law advisor Shelli Freeland Eddie, Esq. and join the Pre-Law Professional Community!
Top Law Schools that Accepted New College Graduates
| 前15名* | 前25 * | 前50名* |
| 哥伦比亚大学 | Arizona State University | 波士顿学院 |
| 康奈尔大学 | 波士顿大学 | College of William and Mary |
| 杜克大学 | 埃默里大学 | Florida State University |
| 乔治敦大学 | George Washington University | 乔治梅森大学 |
| 哈佛大学 | University of California-Irvine | 印第安纳大学 |
| 纽约大学 | 佛罗里达大学 | 俄亥俄州立大学 |
| 西北大学 | 明尼苏达大学 | 阿拉巴马大学 |
| 加州大学洛杉矶分校 | University of Southern California | 亚利桑那大学 |
| University of California-Berkeley | 德克萨斯大学 | 科罗拉多大学 |
| 密歇根大学 | 佐治亚大学 | |
| 伊利诺伊大学 | ||
| University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill | ||
| University of Washington | ||
| 威斯康星大学 | ||
| 维克森林大学 |
*Law school rankings in the 2021 edition of U.S. 新闻与世界报道
法律系的顾问
Attorney Shelli Freeland Eddie joins NCF as 法律系的顾问 and Adjunct Professor. She is a Florida licensed attorney with 18 years of legal experience, in both the public and private sectors. She manages her own law firm, The Freeland Eddie Law Group, P.A., and actively serves in the 萨拉索塔 County Bar Association on the governance and Council for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) committees, as Chair of the Association’s Pipeline Committee, which is committed to creating and expanding access to legal education and employment for attorneys with diverse backgrounds in the 萨拉索塔/Manatee region.
A graduate of the University of Kentucky, Attorney Freeland Eddie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a Juris Doctorate degree in Law. She worked as an Assistant State Attorney for the 12th 司法电路, along with work in the private sector, before founding her own law firm, located in the Newtown community near the Ringling College of Art and Design. She also served our community as an elected City Commissioner, Vice Mayor and Mayor for the City of 萨拉索塔 for 5 years.
Attorney Freeland Eddie will advise Pre-Law students along with helping connect students to special programs, 活动, 经历 and preparation that sets them apart from other law school applicants. Through personalized pre-law advising and career coaching opportunities, New College Pre Law students will receive professional and peer support to achieve their academic and future employment goals.
Attorney Freeland Eddie will also be working with NCF Graduate and New College Law Society (NCLS) Founder Rhys Shanahan to coach and prepare the Mock Trial and Moot Court teams for their annual competitions. She intends to work with the local county bar association and NCF alumni to provide attorneys and judges to serve as judges to prepare the students for competition and provide advocacy and litigation skills and techniques through an advocacy ISP (Independent Study Project) offered annually.
准备法学院入学考试
The Law School 招生 Test (LSAT) is a half-day test offered four times a year: February, 6月, 十月和十二月.
If you are serious about going to law school, 一般来说, time spent preparing for the LSAT will have a greater return on your investment than time spent on nearly any other academic project, be it eight class assignments, finals or even thesis work.
LSAT考试是, 平均, 60 percent of what law schools take into consideration in determining admission — for a school like New College where we don’t have a GPA, this figure is presumably even higher.
Every reputable law school requires that you take the LSAT. Almost all of those students accepted at the top 25 law schools have LSAT scores which place them in the top 90 percent (or above) of all test takers. While it is difficult to get into a top law school without a high LSAT score, you should take some comfort in scoring anything above average on the LSAT. Working on improving your LSAT score should be at the top of your priorities.
