Established in 2001, the King Hall Outreach Program (KHOP) is an initiative designed to equip high-potential undergraduate students and recent graduates from underrepresented communities with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in the law school admissions process. Over the course of four Saturdays at King Hall, students will learn from admissions professionals, law professors, law students, practicing lawyers, and financial aid professionals. There is no cost to apply or enroll in KHOP, but students are selected as part of a competitive application process.
Among KHOP alumni, ninety-nine percent have graduated from a four-year institution. Forty-one percent are enrolled or have graduated from a law program. In 2014, the King Hall Outreach Program received the California State Bar Education Pipeline Award for its important role in diversifying the legal profession and in 2016 the American Bar Association Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline awarded the program its prestigious Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Award For Excellence in Pipeline Diversity. The Alexander Award recognizes organizations that demonstrate success working along the educational pipeline in a collaborative approach involving more than one segment of the continuum from preschool to high school to college to law school to the practice.
The King Hall Outreach Program consists of KHOP Winter Session (held in January/February/March) and KHOP Summer Session (held in June/July) at UC Davis Law.
Program Dates and Application Information
As we note in the eligibility section, students become eligible for KHOP when they are enrolled at a four-year university with 24 or fewer months until the conferral of their bachelor’s degree. They are, in other words, about to begin their junior year. They remain eligible for KHOP until 12 months after they have received their bachelor’s degree. This means that there is a three-year window when students are eligible for KHOP (provided, of course, that they meet the remaining eligibility criteria).
Please reference the KHOP Summer Session and KHOP Winter Session pages for dates and application materials.
KHOP Alumni Success
The King Hall Outreach Program now has over 600 program alumni. KHOP alumni have now graduated from or currently attend the following law schools:
- UC Davis School of Law
- UC Berkeley School of Law
- UC Irvine School of Law
- UCLA School of Law
- UC College of Law San Francisco
- American University Washington College Law
- Boston College Law School
- Boston University School of Law
- Brooklyn Law School
- Cal Northern School of Law
- California Western School of Law
- Chapman University School of Law
- Columbia University School of Law
- Florida Coastal School of Law
- Golden Gate University School of Law
- Georgetown University Law Center
- Harvard Law School
- Howard University School of Law
- Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law
- University of Kansas School of Law
- University of Miami School of Law
- University of Michigan Law School
- University of Montana School of Law
- New York Law School
- NYU School of Law
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law
- Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
- University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
- University of San Francisco School of Law
- Santa Clara University School of Law
- University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
- Thomas Jefferson School of Law
- University of Virginia School of Law
- University of Washington
- Western State University College of Law
- Whittier Law School
- University of Wisconsin Law School
- Yale Law School
Questions?
Questions regarding the application or program should be directed to King Hall Outreach Program staff by email outreach@law.ucdavis.edu or by phone 530-752-6477.