Clinic Matching and Selection Process

How Clinic Matching is Conducted

Each clinic/externship's faculty submits a list of accepted students. (Faculty do not have access to students' preferences when making their acceptance decisions.)
The lists are compared with student preferences, and students receive their first preference among the clinics/externships to which they have been accepted. For example, if a student is accepted into two clinics/externships, the system would place them in the one they ranked higher.
After initial offers are made, each clinic/externship maintains a wait list. If an opening occurs, wait-listed students are informed of their option to accept a position in that clinic/externship. Thus, students placed in their second or third choice course may later be notified that they have gotten into a higher-preferred clinic/externship.
Students offered admission to a clinic/externship that was not their top preference may continue on the wait list for ones they ranked higher, whether they accept or decline the lower-rated clinic/externship offered. However, students cannot be placed on a waitlist for a clinic/externship they ranked lower than the one they are offered.

JD students will be notified by e-mail on Monday, April 29, 2024, whether or not they have been accepted into a clinic or externship.
Students who are accepted will receive only one offer email – for the highest-preferred clinic/externship to which they were accepted.
All offers for Fall and Spring clinics are made at the same time.
If a student is not accepted into any of the clinics to which they have applied, every attempt will be made to offer a clinic placement from openings available in other clinics.

Students should not accept a clinic/externship offer unless they are certain that they can honor that commitment.
Those who are accepted will be asked to confirm their intention to enroll in the clinic/externship.
To accept or decline an offer, simply reply to the e-mailed offer, including the text of the offer email with the response.
This confirmation of intent should be e-mailed to Susan Hodges by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 10, 2024.

Enrollment lists will be pre-loaded into Courses before the June bidding deadline.
Students do not need to bid for clinics/externships, nor will they be able to register themselves during the Drop/Add period.

Withdrawals from a clinic/externship after indicating intent to enroll can have substantial detrimental consequences for other students in the clinic/externship, the faculty members teaching the clinic/externship, and the clients served by the clinic/externship.
If a rising second year student drops a clinic/externship after the May 10th deadline—despite this explanation of the problems that it would cause—and if the student thereafter applies for a clinic/externship in their third year, teachers of the clinics/externships to which the student applies will be informed of the student's failure to honor the deadline in the previous year.
If unforeseen circumstances require that a student withdraw after accepting an offer, they should notify both Susan Hodges and the faculty members teaching the course, at the earliest possible opportunity.