TRIALS

A Partnership of the Advantage Testing Foundation,
Harvard Law School and NYU Law School

TRIALS is an acronym for “Training and Recruitment Initiative for Admission to Leading Law Schools.” The program’s mission is to increase the admissions rates of college students of modest means to America’s leading law schools.

In terms of equality and diversity, the law continues to lag other prestigious and highly skilled professions, including medicine, finance, and accounting. Such homogeneity in the legal profession can be traced directly to the nation's law schools, where admissions departments still struggle to recruit talented minority applicants. This trend is even more pronounced in terms of socioeconomic diversity: students at the nation's top law schools are overwhelmingly the children of college-educated professionals.

TRIALS students study hard in a rigorous five-week summer curriculum designed to improve their chances of admission to law school. Students also receive a broad-based introduction to the legal profession from current law school faculty, notable legal professionals, and prominent alumni of the host school.

Harvard Law School and New York University Law School have agreed to partner with Advantage Testing in the TRIALS program because these leading law schools are actively committed to improving diversity in the legal profession. It is our hope and expectation that other top-tier law schools will emulate our model by rededicating their admissions and administrative resources to creating real opportunities for for low-income undergraduates.

For additional information or to apply, please visit the Trials website.

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