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Jaworski scholarships

Baylor University School of Law offers up to three tuition scholarships each
year to beginning law students who have outstanding records in undergraduate
university debating.  These scholarships may be reawarded for the second and
third years of law school if the recipient maintains the required cumulative
grade point average and participates in the activities of the law school.  The
scholarships are named in honor of the late Leon Jaworski, a Baylor graduate,
an outstanding lawyer, and the donor of these scholarship funds through the
Leon Jaworski Foundation.

An applicant must complete and submit an application for a Leon Jaworski
Scholarship for Outstanding Debaters along with his or her application for
admission to Baylor Law School.  To obtain an application, please write or
call:  Ms. Becky L. Beck, Admissions Director and Scholarship Coordinator,
Baylor law School, P.O. Box 97288, Waco, TX 76798 or call (817) 755-1911. 
Application deadlines are as follows:  For Summer 1995, February 1, 1995 and
for Fall 1995, Marcch 1, 1995.

The primary factors considered are the applicant's record as a debater,
undergraduate academic records, and the LSAT score.  Recommendations from
debate coaches are required but no more than three such letters should be
submitted.  The Baylor University debate faculty will consult with and advise
the Law School on Jaworski Scholarship award decisions.

Entering student credentials place Baylor Law School in the top 15%-20% of all
law schools around the nation.  Baylor enjoys a national reputation for
excellence in the teaching of advocaccy skills, and has an increasingly
diverse student population of about 415.  The law school is developing a legal
analysis and communications program that will give students intensive, small
group instrucction with generous feedback.  Reflecting the quality of the
education they receive, Baylor graduates continue to pass the bar examination
with record success.  We have been first on the Texas bar examination sixteen
of the twenty times the bar exam has been given since 1983, when comparative
law school pass rates were first released.

As the cornerstone of a recent comprehensive curriculum revision, we have
developed six focal areas in the curriculum-General Civil Litigation, Business
Litigation, Criminal Practice, Business Planning, Estate Planning and Health
Care Law.In addition to completing our traditiona, broadd core curricculum
which is designed to provide students with a basic foundation for practice in
any locale or setting, student will have tyhe option to focus their studies in
a particular area.  

If you have further questions or would like to talk about these awards, please
feel free to contact me at (817) 755-1111 x 6919 or email me.  Representatives
from the Baylor University School of Law will be available at the Glenn R.
Capp Debate Tournament in January.

Dr. Karla Leeper
Director of Forensics
Baylor University
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