St. Johns Law School, Ronald H. Brown Law School Prep Program, Deadline Extended to 2/28

*** Application Deadline Extended to February 28, 2018***

Fourth grade wasn’t easy for Nia Bronner. Her family had just moved to a new city where, as Nia describes it, she attended “the absolute worst” public school. “We didn’t have a principal or a nurse,” Nia recalls. “The windows were boarded up and the teachers were underqualified. I was horrified.”

It was a life-changing experience. “My passion for education reform started the day I walked into my fourth grade classroom,” Nia says. So did her dream of becoming a lawyer.

As a rising college senior, Nia participated in the Ronald H. Brown Law School Prep Program for College Students at St. John’s Law, where she’s now a 3L. An award-winning pipeline initiative of the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights, the summer program serves college students from historically underrepresented groups who want to pursue a career in the law. We offer:

• Prep Program Foundations for rising sophomores
• Prep Program I for rising juniors
• Prep Program II for rising seniors

Our students learn the fundamentals of legal analysis, writing, and advocacy in courses taught by St. John’s faculty and through internships with lawyers and judges in the New York City area. They also participate in workshops on professionalism and, as rising seniors, take a comprehensive, customized LSAT prep Course.

To date, over 120 Ron Brown Prep Program alumni have attended 54 law schools across the country, including: Harvard; Yale; BC; Cornell; Duke; Emory; Georgetown; GW; NYU; Penn; St. John’s; UC Berkeley; UCLA; U-M; and Vanderbilt.

And over 85% of Prep Program students receive financial aid, making this summer pre-law experience accessible and affordable.

The Summer 2018 Ron Brown Prep Program application period is now open and runs through February 28, 2018. We're making admissions and scholarship decisions on a rolling basis, so apply now! You can lean about the program by visiting our website. I’m also available to continue the conversation.

Together, we’ll further the Ron Brown Prep Program’s mission of increasing racial and socioeconomic diversity in law schools and in the legal profession.

All the best,

Elaine

Elaine Chiu
Professor of Law and Director, Ron Brown Prep Program
chiue1@stjohns.edu
(718) 990-665