In that same survey, however, Baylor students ranked the Law School facility among the worst in the nation. Both the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools, in accreditation inspections of the Law School, have raised concerns about the adequacy of the Law School s facilities. Facilities and Law School Recruitment Facilities play a critical role in student recruitment, notes professor Ron Beal, chair of the Law School's student recruitment committee. The law School's ability to continue to attract superb students must be maintained. In recent years, our students' credentials, measured by UGPA and LSAT criteria, have ranked in the top 15-20 percent of law classes nationally.
Excellent students are essential top producing excellent lawyers and leaders.
Beal says almost all applicants who are accepted by Baylor also are accepted by other quality competing schools. Admitted applicants very carefully assess what each school that accepts them has to offer. The present facility hinders the Law School in student recruitment because it compares poorly with the facilities of competing law schools. A law school s facilities, in contrast, are tangible, more easily evaluated, and frequently are decisive in a student s decision regarding where to attend law school. The Options Study Professor Bill Trail, another member of the building committee, recalls that Baylor Law School began a two-year study of its facility needs in late 1992.