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Article: Changing the face of the legal profession: the city university of New York School of Law continues to build on its track record of serving underreprestented communities with its pipeline intiative.
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
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- April 16, 2009
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In 2000, Laquesia Anguiano was finally on track to fulfill her life-long dream of becoming an attorney. As a wife and mother of four by her 22nd birthday, school had been put on hold, so going back that year to earn her bachelor's had been challenging. Then it was time for law school.
After taking the LSAT, Anguiano applied to 10 schools and was denied by all of them. Determined, she took a Kaplan LSAT prep course, retook the LSAT and applied to three more schools; again, none accepted her.
One of those schools--the City University of New York School of Law sent her a letter with tips to improve her application. She called for more advice. An admissions ...