{"id":64,"date":"2022-08-12T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/programs\/mitchellhamline\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:28:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:28:54","slug":"program-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/programs\/pre-law\/early-admission\/program-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The Law School Early Admission program allows students to fast track an undergraduate degree at Bemidji State University and a law degree at the one of the partnered schools. Students earn a four-year bachelor&rsquo;s degree and a three-year juris doctorate compressed into six years.<\/p>\n<h2>BSU Undergraduate Degree<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete 92 credits at Bemidji State University.<\/li>\n<li>Work closely with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/sq8899dj\/\">Dr. Patrick Donnay<\/a>, pre-law advisor, and your faculty advisor, to make sure the first-year courses at the law school transfer to BSU as upper-level credits in your major and upper-level electives. These will complete the 28 credits needed for a BSU bachelor&rsquo;s degree.<\/li>\n<li>First-year law school courses must be reviewed for approval to meet substitution requirements by the participating BSU department or program.<\/li>\n<li>Students will receive their bachelor&rsquo;s degree after successful completion of their first year of law school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Program Requirements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Meet with Patrick Donnay, pre-law advisor, as early as possible in your academic planning process. Dr. Donnay will assist students and their academic advisors to ensure that bachelor degree requirements are met.<\/li>\n<li>Review the program requirements checklist to make sure you are meeting BSU graduation requirements before beginning law school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Admission to law school<\/h2>\n<p>Participation in the 3+3 program <strong>does not guarantee admission into law school<\/strong>. Students must complete the same process required of all applicants to Mitchell Hamline law school or Case Western Reserve University.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and<a href=\"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/admission\/applying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> apply to the Mitchell Hamline School of Law<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/programs\/pre-law\/early-admission\/case-western-reserve-school-of-law\/\">Case Western Reserve University<\/a> by the fall of your third year of undergraduate study.<\/li>\n<li>Students not accepted into law school or who change their plans may complete their studies at Bemidji State to earn a bachelor&rsquo;s degree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law School Early Admission program allows students to fast track an undergraduate degree at Bemidji State University and a law degree at the one of the partnered schools. Students earn a four-year bachelor&rsquo;s degree and a three-year juris doctorate compressed into six years. BSU Undergraduate Degree Complete 92 credits at Bemidji State University. Work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/programs\/pre-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/programs\/pre-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/programs\/pre-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/programs\/pre-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/programs\/pre-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/programs\/pre-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/programs\/pre-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/125"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/programs\/pre-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/programs\/pre-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}