Pre-Law

Law must be stable and yet it cannot stand still. -Roscoe Pound

U.S. Supreme Court

 

Introduction

This site is primarily intended to be a user-friendly resource for undergraduates and college graduates who are considering law school and legal careers. Different pages will be relevant to users at different stages in their journeys. High school students will find the Alma College Pre-Law Scholarships, Is Law School Right for Me?, and Resources for Pre-Law Students pages most immediately pertinent. First- and second-year college students should examine the following pages:

  • Law School Application Timetable
  • Is Law School Right for Me?
  • Resources for Pre-Law Students
  • Useful Pre-Law Web Sites
  • Advisors

College juniors and seniors and college graduates will find some information in the above-mentioned pages helpful, but they will especially benefit from the following pages:

  • LSAT Dates
  • Reference Works
  • Commercial Test Preparation Services
  • Personal Statement (including the subpage giving examples of successful personal statements)
  • Choosing a Law School
  • Financing Law School

Any student interested in law school should register at the LSAC web site, www.lsac.org.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. -John Marshall

 

Alma College students have the ability to design their own area of academic concentration—with the assistance of a faculty advisor—to meet specific educational or career goals. In recent years, students have graduated with Programs of Emphasis majors in such fields as arts management, archaeology and anthropology, environmental policy and community advocacy, Foreign Service and international law, and music technology and digital media.

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Student Profile

Taylor Boehler

Taylor Boehler
Graduation: 2013
Major: Integrative Physiology and Health Science

As a nursing assistant, Saginaw senior Taylor Boehler is finding ways every day to make a difference in people’s lives. Little did she realize that it also would change her own.

“I needed patient contact hours in order to get accepted to physician assistant school, so I started working at Masonic Pathways,” she says. “I ended up falling in love with working with geriatric populations. Honestly, if you would’ve told me in high school that I would end up in geriatrics, I would have thought you were nuts, but Masonic helped me find my niche.”

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