Campus Visit
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Scheduled Visits for Summer 2009
- We encourage you to visit the Washington College of Law. We offer student-led tours on most Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays from June 1-August 7, 2009.
- We prefer for you to RSVP in advance with the Admissions Reception Desk to attend a student-led tour due to space limitations.
- If your schedule does not permit for you to visit the law school for a scheduled tour, you are welcome to print a copy of our Self-Guided Tour which highlights areas of the facility you might want to see during your visit.
Due to the large size of our applicant pool, we cannot provide evaluative interviews. Therefore, your personal statement is the vehicle that you should use to tell us about yourself, your background, your achievements, and other factors that you want us to consider in evaluating your record. It is your opportunity to address the Committee on Admissions, and it provides us with a sample of your writing.
Visitor Information
Web links to information about traveling to Washington, D.C., hotel accommodations, shuttle bus transportation to WCL:
- Accommodations
- Driving directions to the Washington College of Law
- Map of the law school neighborhood
- Map of American University main campus
- Map showing the WCL Direct Shuttle stop at the Tenleytown-AU Metro Station. (The WCL Direct Shuttle runs Mondays-Fridays every 30 minutes between 8 am-12:30 am, with additional shuttles every 15 minutes between 8:00 am-Noon and 4:00 pm-8:00 pm during the fall and spring semesters)
Washington College of Law's Visitor's Guide (PDF)
Admissions Reception Desk, Suite 507
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
Phone: 202-274-4101
Email: wcladmit@wcl.american.edu
Upper-level law students staff the reception desk and main phone line of the Office of Admissions. They are a great resource for prospective students and can answer questions about student life, class offerings, extra-curricular opportunities and studying law in Washington, DC.
Summer Reception Desk Staff:
- Lisa Coleman, second-year student; graduate of University of Missouri-Columbia, hometown Kansas City, KS (working until July 10th)
- Pedro de Lencastre, second-year student; graduate of McGill Univeristy, hometown New York, NY (working after July 13th)
- Randy Seriguchi, second-year student; graduate of University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; hometown Neptune, NJ (working all summer)
- Eleanor Thompson, second-year student; graduate of Harvard University; hometown Silver Spring, MD (working all summer)