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CLASS CREDENTIALS

The academic qualifications of entering students Matters Day, which targets racially and ethnically
have increased steadily over the past five years. At diverse high school students and undergraduate
the same time the diversity of each first-year class students in their first two years of college. The
has also improved, and female students became program has grown significantly each year and is
the majority in 2018. “Excellence and diversity can designed to introduce students to law school and
be achieved at the same time,” said Dean Leonard the legal profession.
M. Baynes. “This is evident from the increase
in our entering credentials coinciding with the “In addition, under Dean Baynes’ leadership,
concomitant increase in student diversity.” we have been able to increase the number of
merit scholarships offered to incoming first-year
“During the past five years, efforts have been law students. This greatly assists in our ability
made to broaden our recruitment by increasing to attract and recruit high-quality applicants.
our pipeline,” said Pilar Mensah, assistant dean for “Overall, we have been able to adjust and adapt
admissions. “In addition to the Law Center’s Pre- to the changing market, which has allowed us to
Law Pipeline Program for college undergraduates, maintain, and in fact strengthen, the credentials of
each year we participate in LSAC’s Diversity each class.”

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