Hispanics made up 29 percent of the interns last spring, and Blacks 12 percent. Meanwhile, Hispanics and Blacks only make up about 15 percent and 4 percent, respectively, of the total student population at UT. The pregraduate internship allowed Ana Lucia Hurtado, now a student at Harvard Law School, to focus her interests. Hailing from a family of doctors and educators, she was aware of graduate school but struggled to find a graduate program that fit her desires.
“I was going back and forth about what I wanted to do with my life,” says Hurtado, a 2006 graduate who is most interested in immigration law, but has also considered practicing family, health and environmental law. “I spent hours researching careers.
“I really wish more undergraduate institutions would implement more of these programs that help students find out what they want to do,” Hurtado says, adding that her enrollment in the program helped her negotiate what areas of law she is most passionate about.
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