One of the hallmarks of Mercer Law School has always been its collaborative environment. In a small classroom setting, you really do get to know your professor. You can ask us questions on the spot. You can stay after class and talk face to face with a faculty member. We're small enough to really craft an individual experience for students here. We're small enough so that I, as the dean, get to know these students through the student organization work they do through the leadership opportunities they take on. So I spend an enormous amount of time writing recommendations for students, because I know them so well. All of our faculty, all of our administrators and our staff really want to know our students before they leave here, and we get that opportunity.
My first year section had 25 students. And it was we had the same classes together every single day for two semesters. So we got to know each other very well. We have a group chat that we still talk in. I think it's very beneficial. It helps me to understand the material because we meet up and we talk about what's going on. And it's the same people that you see every single day. So you don't have to wonder who can I reach out to for this question. It's always that same group that you can just touch out and reach.
That's a really unique thing about Mercer law school, but we don't ever want to outgrow. You can be too big as a law school, and just get lost as a number, passing up and down the halls. That is not the experience at Mercer Law School. We'll know every individual student and help them on their individual pathway to success.
