The HLS J.D. Admissions team recently wrapped up a busy and eventful outreach season full of both in-person and virtual programming for prospective applicants. In Fall 2023, our team traveled to new college campuses, joined a range of fairs and forums, organized dozes of online sessions, and met thousands of future law students. With recruitment season at a close, we thought it would fun to recap our busy fall. You can find a current listing of all our recent and upcoming programming for prospective applicants on our Connect with Admissions webpage. You might say this is our attempt at a Spotify Wrapped—let’s call it 2023 Wrapped: J.D. Admissions Prospective Student Outreach.
2023 was marked by our robust return to in-person prospective student programming. We welcomed hundreds of future applicants students to Harvard Law School’s campus, and we visited thousands of prospective students on their college campuses. It was our busiest year ever for in-person prospective student programming—we hosted over 130 unique in-person events!
Let’s dive a bit deeper into these numbers.
2023 In-Person Recruitment Events
By Location:
We traveled to 23 states and 2 countries. Our team visited two new locations for the first time in over a decade: Kentucky and the United Kingdom.
By Event Type:
We hosted several different types of in-person events. These included On-Campus Information Sessions, a Military Prospective Students Day (our first since 2019!), a Live Podcast Tour, Joint Degree Events, University Visits, Small Group Sessions, Forums, and Conferences. The most popular type of in-person events was…University Visits! We traveled to 89 university and college campuses.
By Volume:
Across our 11 highest-attended in-person events, we met with over 1,200 students. The Harvard Graduate Joint Degree Information Session, with HLS, HKS, and HBS, had the highest in-person turnout with 274 students in attendance. Our highest-attended university visit was our joint-YLS event at the University of Chicago.
2023 Virtual Recruitment Events
New Events:
We innovated new ways for prospective students to connect with current students who share similar backgrounds as them. These fun and interactive events included Student Experience Webinars and Affinity Group Events. We hosted 9 Student Experience Webinars and 12 Affinity Group events.
By Event Type:
Like our in-person recruitment, we engaged with prospective students through a variety of platforms. Our virtual recruitment efforts included J.D. Admissions Q&A Sessions, Student Experience Webinars, Affinity Organization hang outs, the Break Into Law Conference, LSAC Digital Law School Forums, Joint Degree Events, and Virtual University Visits. Our most popular event type was our 12 events with HLS Affinity Groups, which included student hang outs with APALSA, DLSA, Lambda & QTPOC, HALA, First Class, CISGA, SALSA, La Alianza, MENALSA, NALSA, HBLSA, and WLA.
By Volume:
Virtual events continue to be the most popular way for prospective students to engage with our office. Across our ten highest-attended virtual events, we met with over 3,000 students. The LSAC Digital Law School Forums yielded our highest turn out, with 494 attendees logging on in October and 439 in November. Our September J.D. Admissions Q&A Session was our most well-attended of the six sessions we hosted this fall.
Whether we visited your college campus or chatted with you over Zoom, we wish you all the best with your application!
Please find our complete list of events below.
In-Person Forums and Panels
2023 Harvard Graduate School Information Session
BU Summer Pre-Law Academy
Berkeley Pre-Law Evening
Boston Law Fair
Leadership Brainery Graduate School Summit
National Black Pre-Law Conference and Fair
National HBCU Pre-Law Summit
Service to School Vetlink Summit – Law School Panel
Sullivan & Cromwell Law School Admissions Panel
Summer Pre-Law Achievers Network Admissions Panel
Virtual Forums and Panels
2023 Break Into Law Conference
Fighting for Fairness Panel Discussion
Harvard Joint Degree Information Session (HBS/HLS)
Harvard Summer School Graduate School Panel
LEDA Legal Admissions Fair
LSAC Digital Law School Forum
LSAC Digital Law School Forum
Preparing for the 2022–23 Law School Application Cycle Webinar
SEO Law Catalyst Resume and Letters of Recommendation Panel
SEO Law Catalyst Virtual Law School Tours 2023
Service to School HLS & YLS Prospective Students Information Session
Truman Scholars Meet the Law School Admissions Officers
UCLA Law School Planning: Meet Law School Admissions Panel
York University Law & Society Students Association: US Law School Showcase
Live Podcast Tour
Navigating Law School Admissions: Live in Boston
Navigating Law School Admissions: Live in Los Angeles
Navigating Law School Admissions: Live in Seattle
Navigating Law School Admissions: Live in New York City
On-Campus Information Sessions
Friday, August 11
Friday, September 15
Friday, November 3
Friday, December 1
Online Information Sessions: Affinity Group Events
Meet HLS APALSA
Meet HLS DLSA
Meet HLS Lambda & QTPOC
Meet HLS HALA
Meet HLS First Class
Meet HLS CISGA
Meet HLS SALSA
Meet HLS La Alianza
Meet HLS MENALSA
Meet HLS NALSA
Meet HBLSA
Meet HLS WLA
In-Person Small Group Sessions
Harvard Undergraduate Law Review Fireside Chat
HGSE Student Law Society
Black Pre-Law Society at Duke
Cornell International Affairs Review
Cornell Kappa Alpha Pi & Phi Alpha Delta
Cornell Latinx Association of Pre-Laws
Dartmouth Minority Pre-Law Association
Dartmouth Women in Law and Government Emory Mock Trial
Johns Hopkins Model United Nations Q&A
Johns Hopkins Undergraduate Law Review Q&A
Morehouse Moot Court
Northeastern University PAD Written Statement Workshop
Spelman Speech & Debate
Syracuse Student Veterans Organization
Black Undergraduate Law Society
Dartmouth First-Generation Office
Dartmouth Native American Program
Duke University Native American/Indigenous Student Alliance
Pre-Law Society of Arizona State University
Tulane University Phi Alpha Delta
UGA Demosthenian Literary Society
UGA Mock Trial
UNC Black Student Movement & Black Pre-Law Association
University of Alabama Legal Research Club
University of Maryland Undergraduate Student Legal Aid Office
University of Virginia Jefferson Society
UPenn Black Pre-Law Association
Vanderbilt University NBLSA
Xavier University of Louisiana Pre-Law Club Georgetown Scholars Program
LEDA Scholars Personal Statement Workshop
Q&A with Delta Scholars
Senate Black Legislative Staff Caucus Navigating the Law School Admissions Process
Virtual Small Group Sessions
Cornell Black Ivy Pre-Law Society Q&A
Cornerstone Research Q&A
Senate Black Legislative Staff Caucus Navigating the Law School Admissions Process
University of Houston Pre-Law Society Q&A Session
In-Person University Visits
Amherst College
Arizona State University
Barnard College
Bates College
Baylor University
Bellarmine University
Belmont University
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Brigham Young University
Brown University
Colby College
Colgate University
College of William and Mary
Columbia University
Cornell University
CUNY Hunter College
Dartmouth College
Dillard University
Duke University
Emory University
Fisk University
Fordham College – Lincoln Center
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia State University
Hamilton College
Hampton University
Harvard College Law School Essay Workshop
Haverford College/Bryn Mawr College
Johns Hopkins University Information Session
Johns Hopkins University Law School Essay Workshop
Kenyon College
London School of Economics
Louisiana State University
Morehouse, Spelman, & Clark Atlanta
Mount Holyoke College
New York University
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina State University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Rice University
Rutgers University
Smith College
Southern Methodist University
St. John’s College
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University
Temple University
Tennessee State University
Texas A&M University
The Ohio State University
The University of Arizona
Tufts University
Tuskegee University
University College London
University of Alabama
University of Cambridge
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati
University of Georgia
University of Kentucky
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas at Austin
University of Utah
University of Virginia
Utah Valley University
Vanderbilt University
Villanova University
Wellesley College
Western Kentucky University
Yale University
Virtual University Visits
Harvard College Law School Night
Howard University Q&A Session
Oklahoma State University & University of Oklahoma Q&A Session
University of Louisville Q&A Session
University of Michigan Q&A Session
University of Notre Dame Q&A Session
Washington University in St. Louis Q&A Session
J.D. Admissions Q&A Sessions
Thursday, September 21
Thursday, October 5
Thursday, October 19
Thursday, November 2
Thursday, November 16
Thursday, December 7
Student Experience Webinars
Applying to HLS From Canada
Applying to HLS From HBCUs
Applying to HLS From Liberal Arts Colleges
Applying to HLS From the Midwest
Applying to HLS From the Northeast
Applying to HLS From the Southeast
Applying to HLS From the Southwest
Applying to HLS From the West
Applying to HLS with Military Experience
