UNC Law Students
First-year grades are important -- very important. Your 1L grades at University of North Carolina 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.
UNC Law Administration
"At North Carolina we definitely stress the importance of first-year grades and the importance of doing well during the 1L year. In fact, we consistently try to impress upon folks the importance of focusing on academics above pretty much anything else, because many firms want to see people in the top 10%, 15% or 20% of the class. Those 1L grades are going to be critically important for students who hope to compete for jobs with large firms. I mean, now that we are in this new job market or "new economy," or whatever you want to call it, the rules have changed. First-year performance is really critical. That is certainly something that we consistently stress to our incoming students -- the importance of getting the best grades you can during the first year."
-Michael States, Assistant Dean of Admissions, University of North Carolina School of Law
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After taking the Law Preview course, I entered law school with a better idea of how to efficiently prepare for classes than most of my peers. I think that taking the Law Preview course helped me to avoid the feelings of being "lost" and "overwhelmed" that many 1Ls feel during their first semester.
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