YALE Yale Law School welcomes applications for transfer. Each year, almost 200 students from a broad range of law schools apply; we usually offer admission to 10-15 of them. Transfer applications must be submitted between May 15 and July 1 of the year in which admission is sought. All applicants must have finished the equivalent of one year of law school at another ABA-approved school and meet the other eligibility requirements for transfer applicants [http://www.law.yale.edu/admissions/requi
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA We encourage and welcome applications from law school students who are interested in transferring to the University of Iowa College of Law. The following steps will serve as a guide for the transfer process: To apply, please visit our Online Application [https://apply.admissions.uiowa.edu/admissions/login.page] page for the Transfer Application.As a transfer student, you must have completed at least one full academic year of law studies by June of the year in which you are
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, HASTINGS Students currently attending an ABA/AALS accredited law school are eligible to transfer to UC Hastings. A student must have completed or be in the process of completing at least 24 semester units to be considered for transfer, and may transfer a maximum of 30 semester units. In order to be awarded a UC Hastings J.D., a student must successfully complete a minimum of 56 units while enrolled at UC Hastings as a full-time student for no fewer than four semesters.
Think it is too early to get going on Transfer Applications? We’re already finishing up a few! Here is how our Transfer deal works. You only have to pay 1/2 upfront. We do all the rest with you. If you get into the school(s) you are applying to, you pay the second half. It is as simple as that. Shoot us an email before we fill up!*** info@spiveyconsulting.com***
Here is a personal statement from last year’s transfer cycle we think worked very well. The results were equally strong, 1 (top 6) school applied to, 1 (top 6) admit. - The dissolution of Dewey & LeBoeuf in 2012 led to my realization that the law is like classical music. Dewey’s implosion occurred the spring before I had planned to begin law school; it was the same year that I first applied to Princeton Law. As I
The following lists the law schools ranked 7-30 for the most recent USNWR rankings) in order of the percentage of students that transferred out of their first-year classes. We will do a future post on schools 31-50. We didn't use the schools in the top 6 because it has been our experience that very few students elect to transfer "up the ladder" from those schools and thus the data isn't as comparable.
The following data is all from 2018 ABA 509 reports [http://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/Disclosure509.aspx]. These are the top 25 schools to matriculate the most transfers: 1 Georgetown: 105 transfers in 2 NYU: 58 transfers in 3 Arizona State: 50 transfers in 4 Emory: 42 transfers in 5 UC Berkeley: 36 transfers in 6 Columbia: 35 transfers in 7 Loyola Los Angeles: 34 transfers in 8 Northwestern: 33 transfers in 9 Harvard: 32 transfers in 10 (tie) UCLA: 31 transfers in 10 (tie) George Washing
