“Last year we had 13 students enroll from Cristo Rey,” says the College of St. Scholastica. “It’s become a great pipeline school for us.” In recognition of this new partnership, St. Scholastica hired a bilingual admissions counselor who can speak Spanish with parents in order to better explain the school’s application process.

To try to get younger students interested in legal careers, the Ballard Spahr LLP Minneapolis office runs a “pipeline” internship program with Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Minneapolis’ Phillips neighborhood.

Since 2013, Kraus-Anderson has partnered with Cristo Rey Jesuit High School and its Corporate Study Work Program in providing internships for its students. We have a different intern for each Monday through Thursday when there’s school, and the four of them rotate on Fridays. The interns do basic office work at KA, such as process mail, make deliveries, and clean out our coffee pots. They also work with one of our departments (marketing, IT, HR, project coordinators) in the morning.