Fordham Pre-Law Society

Why do I want to go to law school? How rigorous is the admissions process of Fordham Law? Do I really want to become a lawyer? Is the LSAT actually the nightmare that people claim it to be? What is the everyday life of a Manhattan District Attorney like?

These are only a few of the numerous questions that members of the Pre-Law Society ask themselves frequently. The Pre-Law Society helps Fordham students who have any degree of interest in pursuing a career in the field of law to obtain invaluable insight into the legal profession and into the life of a law school student. The society is headed by Dean Erin Burke, who with her expertise has helped an impressive number of Fordham students obtain admission to the nation’s top-ranked law schools. We hold several events every month. These range from having prosecutors come and explain in vivid detail the proceedings of a murder case, to taking a day trip to the Westchester County Courthouse and sitting in on actual hearings. Each fall, Dr. Stephen Brown, Dean of Admissions of Fordham’s Top-30 ranked law school, comes and explains to students the process of applying to law school and dispels the myths of how to impress law school admissions officers, especially those of Fordham Law. Members of the Pre-Law Society are given in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of the Law School Admissions Test, or LSAT. Each member is required to take at least one practice exam per year, which are offered twice on Fordham’s campus each year by test preparation giant Kaplan. Members of the society are offered numerous discounts on LSAT preparation programs administered by Kaplan. However, the benefits of being a member of Pre-Law do not stop there. This past year, the Pre-Law Society hosted the test preparation program “PreProBono,” which lasted for an entire weekend during September. The instructors, through their intensive teaching methods, provided me with invaluable methods of increasing my LSAT score that I had never learned before. This was especially mind-blowing for me, since I had spent the entire summer of 2011 taking a course administered by a well-known test preparation company and had not learned of any methods that even resembled what the instructors of PreProBono taught me.

Membership in the society also allows a student to speak with Dean Burke, who stops at nothing to aid students in their pursuit of not only admission to law school, but also in the pursuit of a legal career. Any member of the Fordham community who wishes to attend law school and take the career path of law would find it not only invaluable, but absolutely necessary to become a member of the Pre-Law Society.