committed to diversity in legal education and to ensuring that the profession, a

committed to diversity in legal education and to ensuring that the profession, and ultimately the judiciary, is representative of the American public. In an effort to ensure diversity, the law school offers potential students the opportunity to provide a diversity statement. This statement should demonstrate a candidate’s potential to contribute meaningfully to the diversity of the Law School community and the legal profession. The committee shall take into account all factors that indicate that the candidate will contribute to diversity, including, but not limited to, a history of overcoming socioeconomic hardship; family background with little or no formal higher education; membership in a group that has historically been underrepresented in the legal community, including, but not limited to, groups based on race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or age; geographic diversity; or service employment in furtherance of the goal of diversity.

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