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Jim Milligan

Columbia Law School's Dean of Admissions, James Milligan, passed away suddenly earlier this month.

Thanks to Milligan, a devout Mormon, Columbia Law School was at one time the only elite law school that accepted applicants with undergraduate degrees from a yeshiva. Columbia also did not look askance at students like me, with liberal arts degrees that included some yeshiva credits. Other top schools, including NYU, refused to consider many of these applicants under any circumstances, even rejecting some with perfect LSAT scores.

The observant students that Columbia accepted tended to do very well and many now have successful careers, thanks in part to Milligan. In the last few years, NYU and Penn have followed Columbia's lead and begun to accept applicants with yeshiva degrees.
posted on 1/30/2005