Why Brooklyn Law School?
Mike: As someone committed to public interest work, I wanted to go to a school that could provide me with enough financial support so that I wasn’t overwhelmed with debt after graduating. It’s definitely a school that doesn’t just put public interest as a selling point on the Web site. This is a place that follows through with financial, academic, and faculty support. Shannon: I was really impressed with the alumni that I met. Even alumni who had graduated a long, long time ago were still very active in the alumni association and had so many great things to say about the people here. It was really important to me that Brooklyn Law seemed to have this large and connected alumni base—that gives the school so much more credibility. I was also impressed with the school’s flexibility. I had a baby right before I started law school, and I was under this delusion that I was going to go full-time. When I realized that wasn’t practical, I called a number of schools to see if I could switch to p
