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Six reasons to support Chase scholarships that benefit students and alumni
Alumnus Tory Finley was the type of student Chase College of Law wants to enroll; now he is one of the graduates who prove how valuable a Chase education is. As a prospective student, his LSAT score and grades put him in a sought-after enrollment category; after graduation this past May, he joined the profession as an associate at Dinsmore & Shohl, a century-old Cincinnati firm.
His journey to and through Chase is both a story of personal accomplishments and of the alumni who support Chase scholarship funds – through the Annual Fund or endowments – and who make a Chase education possible for scores of students each year. Like the sports mindset that winning begets more winning, law schools that attract good students tend to attract more good students, and good students who become successful graduates help attract more good students to continue the cycle. In an analytics-driven world, the winning-begets-winning data for law schools is available in annual reports the American Bar Association requires each approved school to post online, showing aggregate LSAT scores and undergraduate grade point averages of entering classes, and employment rates for graduated classes. Those numbers are among the numbers that help explain why alumni support of student scholarships at Chase is essential to maintaining a reputation, honed over decades, as The Lawyer’s School. Other important numbers include the larger number of law schools seeking to enroll the same students, the smaller number of dollars available through public funding to help qualified students overcome financial challenges to becoming lawyers, and the multiplier number that one alumnus’s or alumna’s support has over time. With the experiences of Mr. Finley and three current students as guides, here are six reasons – backed up by alumni who have supported scholarships through the Annual Fund or endowments – for alumni to contribute to student scholarships at Chase:
Alumnus Tory Finley following graduation at the 2018 commencement ceremony on the Northern Kentucky University campus.
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