First Year J.D. Tutorial Program

The First Year J.D. Tutorial Program provides individual subject tutoring to first year students.  In order to be assigned a tutor, first year students must meet with Elizabeth Ewert, Director of Academic Enhancement Programs, in order to determine the appropriate tutor assignment.  Please call 202-662-4066, email Ms. Ewert at ee3@law.georgetown.edu, or visit the Office of the Dean of Students in McDonough 210 to make an appointment. 

The tutoring service is designed to assist J.D. students who are experiencing difficulties in a particular subject, and is provided at no cost to them.  Tutors are upperclass students who performed well academically in their first years, and who have an interest in helping current first year students do the same. They are selected through an interview process to serve as tutors for a given academic year.  When possible, students are assigned tutors who had the same professor for the course at issue.  The tutor and students will devise a mutually convenient schedule for meetings, and will generally meet an average of one to two hours per week. 

Students can be paired with tutors as early as their first semester.  This pairing is done in response to the student's needs, the student's areas of concern, and assessment as to whether other assistance or intervention would better serve the student.   The assessment of tutoring needs for second semester also includes an evaluation of the grades received by the student during their first semester.  There is no set grade or average a student must receive in order to qualify for second semester tutoring, but the program is meant to support those who are most in need and not as a general study aid.