Roger Williams Law Students
First-year grades are important -- very important. Your 1L grades at Roger Williams University School of Law will not only determine your eligibility for law review and other honors, but will dictate what job opportunities are available when you graduate. This is because the most selective legal employers recruit law students at the beginning of their second year, and they often will only interview law students who finished at the top of their 1L class. Given the staggering cost of a legal education, and a highly competitive legal hiring market, adopting a trial-and-error approach as a 1L is a flawed strategy. Learn why preparing for the challenges you will face during your first year of law school can help protect the substantial investment you are about to make in your legal education.
More than 99% of our surveyed customers have said Law Preview met or exceeded their expectations:
My school does not provide student rankings until the end of the first year. However, my current GPA (with 4 of 5 grades reported) is a 3.78/4.00. Law Preview certainly helped me achieve success in my first semester of law school. Probably the biggest benefit for me was that it made me feel comfortable with the material right from the start. It helped me keep my fears to a minimum and so I was able to learn and participate in class right from the start. Many of the cases we covered in Law Preview were cases that we covered in my classes. Having previous exposure to these cases made the transition a lot easier for me. While overall, the substantive law that I learned at Law Preview did not give me an edge, I was able to pick up what my professors were discussing more easily because it was not the first time that I had seen the material. It is an expensive program, but I think that it is worth it.
My ranking (16 out of 199) is only after one semester - I plan on moving up next semester! Law Preview was integral in my development as law student. Having the one week of Law Preview under my belt going into school made me feel so much more ready to go and I knew I had an edge up on other students. Also - the informational components of law preview such as how to schedule your time had me ready to go first week, unlike some of my fellow students who took almost the first month trying to get use the busy flow of law school and never-ending reading! And one last helpful tip: Law Preview gave us 4 different study aids at the end of the session, so it gave us a feel for what time of things were out there.
The transition into law school was much smoother because of Law Preview. I didn't have to spend much time figuring out how to outline and brief and I even understood the material better because of the framework and conceptual overview that Law Preview provided in the substantive areas. The legal research and exam-taking discussions were also helpful and were infinitely more helpful than the exam-taking workshop conducted by my school's student services office. I would encourage everyone to take advantage of Law Preview.
