You will also come to see that talk is cheap; schools, like applicants, can market themselves with optimistic claims. Yet we will try hard to learn about you and your interests, and to let you see us for what we are, a great law school that is not like any other.

You will learn of our graduates' rich and varied career opportunities, about the outstanding University and city around us, and about our extraordinary teaching , for there is no faculty that takes its students' education so seriously and personally. This is not a place where great teachers are on leave. Rather, this is a place where teachers compete to teach you, choose to host reading groups in their living rooms, and look forward to talking with you over coffee, at "Wine Messes," in numerous workshops, and at informal events like dinners and bridge games.

Here you will find an intimate learning environment nestled in a diverse community. We have a wide array of courses (especially for a relatively small and personal school), excellent clinical programs, a parade of absorbing speakers, an engaged and accessible faculty without equal, and many fun opportunities to interact with classmates and teachers.

Our students become close friends, making the most of this community and their time in it. They form clubs of every sort; they speak openly, sensibly and provocatively in class; they encourage one another in divergent careers and activities; and they (much like our faculty) are independent thinkers who are not embarrassed to be interested in ideas and to think creatively, even as they are devoted to such things as politics, sports, and opera.

We recently celebrated our 100th anniversary. In our first century, we evolved from an upstart school with five teachers, seventy-five students, a small set of courses, and no building, into a place that is at the leading edge of legal education, with interdisciplinary approaches, an amazingly productive faculty and a formidable library. Our graduates go on in record numbers to clerk for leading judges to build businesses, to teach, and of course to practice law. We begin this second century with newly renovated classrooms, public policy initiatives that seek your involvement, a new program supporting public interest careers, and post-graduate opportunities that are second to none.

If I were in your place, I would want to study law here more than anywhere else. I would want to be a part of this second century of the University of Chicago Law School and its inspiring traditions.

— Saul Levmore