Fw: Non law school participation and other law entrances

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From: Shamnad Basheer <sha...@gmail.com>

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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:01:00 +0530

To: idia diversity<idiadi...@googlegroups.com>

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Subject: Non law school participation and other law entrances

I’ve had some queries on why schools other than the national law schools ought to participate in IDIA. A couple of quick reactions:

1. for good or for bad, some of the national law schools are considered premier institutions. And our efforts are to really try and get these kids into the top law schools. If they get a low CLAT rank and have to pick a lower ranked college, they will then have to assess whether or not they want a lower ranked national law school or a higher ranked non national law school. Which brings me to the second point.
2. we must also have the kids write the other law entrance exams—Symbioisis, KIIT Orissa etc. since our resources are stretched for this year, we can’t have any specific training geared up for these specfic entrances---but we can help them with forms and registration etc. ILS Pune does not have an entrance right?  We must particularly target local colleges---eg. Law College at Kolkata University for kids we pick from W. Bengal etc...as a back up option—if they don’t make it to the top law schools. CLAT training will anyway help for the other entrances as well—but there may some differences and gaps.
   

Not sure how we’ll work out the finances (their fees etc) once they make it to any law schools, apart from the ones where we have some guarantee of a fee waiver at the very least. But you have to make it clear to the kids you train that if they don't make it to the top 3-5 law schools, fee waivers are not guaranteed.  We’ll try and have some sort of scholarships in each of these institutes...but it will take time.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

SB