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First Year Students
The first year programs consist of the following:
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Fall workshop series
covering critical reading, preparing for class, preparing for exams, taking exams, forming study groups, managing time effectively, and taking multiple choice exams; the
Heads Up Program
for at risk students targets first year students who are in danger of performing poorly on their first set of final exams;
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Academic Support Fellows
program is a mentoring and tutoring program where upper-division students in the top twenty-five percent of the class are hired to provide study tips and law school advice to lower division students;
Intensive Legal Analysis (ILA)
is a two credit course offered in the second semester to all students on academic probation after their first semester of studies. In ILA, students work through both statutory and common law problem sets and take practice examinations during the course.