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Four-Year Extended JD

In recognition of changing economic situations in Vermont and New Hampshire, Vermont Law School has created an extended four-year enrollment option for the JD program. Applicants with family, work, or life circumstances that preclude them from enrolling in the full three-year program, now have the opportunity to take fewer credits per semester and graduate in four academic years.

Students in the four-year extended program take 10 credits per semester. For the students who enrolled in 2009, two Monday, Wednesday, and Friday schedules were designed so that students are in class from either 8:30 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. all three days, or, from 11:20 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. all three days. the schedule for 2010 has not yet been established.

No courses have been scheduled during the summers, giving students to option of taking the summer off or enrolling in the joint JD/MELP program.