Rutgers Law School’s incoming students include a National Guardsman, TikTok staffer, and Rutgers–Newark administrator. Get to know these new students and other 1Ls arriving on our Camden and Newark campuses this fall.
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This year’s incoming Rutgers Law class broke a record set by last year’s class and set another. Rutgers Law enrolled the largest number of female students in the law school’s history, beating last year’s record of 241 by seven more students. In addition to improving upon last year’s numerical credentials, this 1L class of more than 420 students is also the most diverse in the law school’s history.
The first cohort of students have completed the Minority Student Program (MSP) Pre-Law Summer Academy and celebrated with a graduation on July 27. With support from Ballard Spahr LLP, its chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, Virginia Essandoh, and the Law School Admission Council, the Pre-Law Academy offered eight weeks of LSAT preparation through 7Sage along with two proctored practice tests. However, the Academy’s support extended well beyond test preparation.
Megan Adams, a first year student at Rutgers Law School, is the first to admit that her parents and upbringing played a role in her decision to attend Rutgers Law. What she didn’t realize until she got to campus was how close she’d feel to her late grandmother, who worked at the law library for 25 years until her retirement in 2004.
Private First Class Jahvaughn Chedale Gabbidon achieved his dream of becoming a U.S. citizen after serving nearly two years in the U.S. Army. “I decided to become a [U.S.] citizen because I want to be a part of America,” the Jamaica native said.
Rutgers Law School’s “The Power of Attorney” podcast is the silver winner in the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Podcast & Media category in the third annual Anthem Awards. This year’s winners were selected from a pool of over 2,000 submissions from 44 countries by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.