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26 J. Juv. L. 1 (2006)
The Admission Numbers Are Up: Is Academic Support Really Necessary

handle is hein.journals/jjuvl26 and id is 5 raw text is: THE JOURNAL OF JUVENILE LAW VOLUME 26 2006 The Admission Numbers are Up: Is Academic Support Really Necessary? JEAN BOYLAN1 I. INTRODUCTION Jose is not your typical law student. Although he has competitive admission numbers, he has never met a lawyer. He is also the first in his family to go to college. Despite high admission numbers, Mary has been out of school for ten years. She has not been exposed to rigorous test taking since 1995. Both these law students need Academic Support to achieve suc- cess in law school and in the legal profession. However, law schools may be tempted to cut back on academic support programs, due to the high admission numbers. As this article will argue, this would be a catastrophic mistake. Although the admission applications and admission index numbers are increasing, non-traditional students and traditional students are greatly benefited by academic support programs. This article will dis- cuss the history of academic support programs, describe examples of current academic support programs, and argue why these programs are essential in law school, despite the increase in the admission appli- cations and admission indexes. II. HISTORY OF ACADEMIC SUPPORT PROGRAMS Academic support programs are relatively new in American law schools.2 During the 1960's, law schools added academic support pro- 1. Jean Boylan is a clinical professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She teaches in the academic support program, as well as legal writing and ethical lawyering. 2. Richard Cabera & Stephanie Zeman, Law School Academic Support Programs - A Survey of Available Academic Support Programs for the New Century, 26 WM. MITCH- ELL L. REV. 205 (2000).

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