UVA Law Students
First-year grades are important -- very important. Your 1L grades at University of Virginia 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.
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While I do not know my class rank because UVa does not release such data, I do have a 3.73 (3 As and a B because I was sick and totally bombed 1 question)-- at UVa only 10% of each class can have an A or A- so I am confident that I am in the top 10% of my class. Law preview taught me three important things that I largely credit my success to. First, to continue my pattern of hard and consistent work throughout the semester. I never missed a class or did not brief a case. I was always caught up (if not ahead) in the reading. By staying a little ahead, I was able to start studying during Thanksgiving Break, which brings me to my second Law Preview lesson: practice exams! I got in touch with students from other schools and also tapped UVa's old exam database. I took at least 10 practice exams in each subject. This is a step that my friends did not do-- or if they did look at practice exams, that was all the did (literally just LOOK at them!) -- and their grades show that they failed to adequately prepare. Finally, Law Preview's outlining strategy made getting ready for finals so easy because I had already been editing and digesting my notes throughout the whole semester. While I had excellent study habits coming into law school, Law Preview reminded me to keep them up and gave me the tools to start using my habits from day one, without having to wait to figure out the mundane details of law school.
Law Preview classes provided excellent preparation for the substance of law school. I am not sure that anything can help a student truly anticipate the pedagogical style, however--law school has to be experienced, I think, and I don't just mean the Socratic method. But to the extent that's it is possible to ease the transitional shock between more familiar styles of pedagogy and legal, I definitely think Law Preview does a good job.
