This section provides essential information for students who have been admitted to the CUNY School of Law.

Open House for Admitted Students

Now that you have been admitted to the Law School, you must decide where you will pursue your legal education. Our offer of admission means that we believe your strengths and your interest make you a good "match" for CUNY; however, we realize that you do have choices and that this process is both personal and complex. As much as we would like to have you as a student, it is important that we now focus on providing you with the information that you need to make a good choice.

In our experience, a good way to get the information you need is to visit the Law School and interact with the Law School community. One of the opportunities to do this is by attending an Open House for Admitted Students.

Housing

Accommodations of all types are available in the New York metropolitan area. Information on housing, as well as assistance in finding housing, is available from the Law School's Student Affairs Office. The Law School does not provide housing for its students.

Summer Law Institute

For the past few summers, the CUNY School of Law has offered the Summer Law Institute, a three-week introduction to law school study. [more]

Graduate Fellows Program

Through the generosity of the University, the Law School awards up to 12 Graduate Fellowships to incoming students each year. These competitive Fellowships require recipients to work as teaching assistants and/or research assistants for 225 hours each year under faculty supervision and pay students a stipend of $10,000 plus in-state tuition and fees. The Fellowships are renewable yearly if specified academic performance standards are met.

Project Equity

Project Equity is a collaboration among the CUNY School of Law, Hunter School of Social Work and the premier special education public interest law firm in NYC, Advocates for Children. It seeks to address wealth, class and race disparities in the distribution of public funds in support of youngsters with autism spectrum disorders. A two-year planning and fundraising project, spearheaded by Professor John Farago, has yielded significant grants from the FAR Fund and the Douglas Flutie Foundation. This initiative will allow the Law School, in addition to providing student support for an important lawyering goal, to recruit a particularly strong cohort of students committed to youth advocacy, devise co-curricular approaches to further integrating the students' experience while at the law school, explore ways to engage students in advocacy that has a longer time-frame than a semester or a year, and model cooperative ventures with other CUNY programs aimed at educating graduate level urban professions.