The University Law School's entering class of 2012 is its most diverse class ever.\nIn Jason Trujillo's first year as the Law School's senior assistant dean for admissions in financial aid, the Law School managed to improve both its academic profile and its diversity simultaneously by actively recruiting students who were offered admission to the University.\n"It's often hard to do many things well at once in admissions," Trujillo said. "I think the great story is that we were able to do both at the same time."\nThe percentage of minority students in the school's incoming class increased this year from 16 percent to 27 percent, and the number of female law students also increased from 44 percent to 47 percent, Trujillo said. At the same time, the median GPA of students admitted increased from 3.80 to 3.85.\nIn the past, Law School admissions officers would spend a great deal of time traveling to encourage students to apply whereas this past year admissions officers cut back their traveling by two-thirds and instead used available resources to encourage admitted students to enroll, Trujillo said. By emphasizing retainment of admitted students, the Law School was able to increase the standard by which future classes will be judged.\nTrujillo said recruitment also "was much more personalized" this year in that all applicants got a phone call from an admissions officer informing them of their status. Additionally, admissions officers put accepted students in contact with current students, faculty and alumni to talk to them about the Law School and life in Charlottesville.\n"It was a total recruitment package," Trujillo said.\n-compiled by Kelly Morenus
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