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After completing the Juris Doctor (J.D.), a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), or a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.), students must article for about a year (in Quebec, the six-month stage is the equivalent to articling); this can be a challenge for those with lower grades, as there are often a shortage of articling positions, and completion of articles ...
Students require an undergraduate degree prior to admission and must take the LSAT. In 2001, the Faculty of Law became the first law school in Canada to offer the Juris Doctor (JD) designation rather than the Bachelor of Laws . It followed many law schools in the United States, which had phased out the LLB over the 20th Century.
In 2003, during the double cohort year when the last group of Grade 13 students graduated at the same time as Grade 12 students, the OUAC received 86,000 online applications in two months. [3] Applications were paper-based until the late 1990s. By 2011, 99 percent of all applications were completed online. [3]
Canada's legal system is composed of both common law and civil law elements. As of 2019, [ 5 ] the professional degree required to become a common law lawyer is a Juris Doctor (J.D.). Formerly, this degree was called a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B., Legum Baccalaureatus in Latin), but the name was phased out. LL.B. holders were often given the chance ...
The average undergraduate GPA of students accepted into UNB's LLB/JD program is 3.7 [10] (on a 4.3 scale), and the average Law School Admission Test score is 158. In 2017, 92 students were admitted from a pool of 715 applicants. [10] The Faculty of Law usually admits 92 students per year, and the total student body is about 265.
Students must complete a college preparatory program before acceptance to an LLB program. Those with an undergraduate degree (BA or BSC) in another field may be admitted to a three-year Juris Doctor program. All undergraduate students must complete the Law School Exit Examination to graduate.
The Faculty of Law is one of the professional graduate schools of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the oldest law school in Canada . 180 candidates are admitted for any given academic year.
High school guidance counsellors and student affairs practitioners work together to provide information, programs, and workshops to high school students such as program prerequisites, post-secondary admission and application requirements, scholarship opportunities and application processes. [6]