Giving to Scholarship Funds
LRAP | Lawrence Drew Mahlum | Christopher Ross McCallister
Establish A New Scholarship
Scholarships can be the deciding factor for top prospective students. Although there are more than 370 scholarships and grants available to law students, only a small percentage of those scholarships are earmarked specifically for USD law students. Creating your own scholarship fund or giving to an existing USD scholarship funds helps USD School of Law recruit the best and brightest law students to USD, raising it's median LSAT and GPA scores. Higher scores help raise the school's profile, rankings and reputation.
Scholarships not only help prospective and current students but also recent graduates in the form of a loan repayment scholarship. Your gift to the Loan Repayment Assistance Program helps USD law school alumni reduce the potentially crippling burden of student debt.
Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP)
This program provides grants for USD law alumni practicing in public interest law to reduce student loan indebtedness. The importance of public interest law cannot be overstated. Many interests worthy and in need of protection—including those of the poor, the environment, and children, among many others—are underrepresented in our legal system. Public interest lawyers working for legal services and other nonprofit organizations ensure that these interests have access to representation in our legal system. However, as law school tuition and accompanying debt burden increase across the nation, most law graduates are precluded from choosing public interest law as a career. Through LRAP, the law school hopes to make careers in public interest law more financially feasible for its graduates. Grants ranging from $2,000 - $5,000 are available to award each year to public interest lawyers because of the generosity of alumni, students, faculty and friends.
Lawrence Drew Mahlum Memorial Scholarship Fund
To perpetuate the memory of their friend and classmate, the graduating class of 2008 established the Lawrence Drew Mahlum Memorial Scholarship Fund, which was supported through the Graduating Class Gift Campaign, by friends and family of Larry, and by the law school community at large.
Christopher Ross McCallister Memorial Scholarship Fund
To perpetuate the memory of their friend and classmate, the Graduating Class of 2007 established the Christopher Ross McCallister Memorial Scholarship Fund, which was supported through the Graduating Class Gift Campaign, by friends and family of Chris, and by the law school community at large.
Establish Your Own Scholarship Fund
For gifts of $5,000 or more, you can establish and name your own scholarship fund.
For more information about giving to the law school's scholarship funds or about starting your own scholarship, please call the Development and Alumni Relations Office at (619) 260-4692.
