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With 13 National Moot Court championships, a top 1% Mock Trial team, and LSAT scores in the 98th percentile, it’s no surprise that PHC’s pre-law program equips students for top-tier law schools like Stanford University, where Calvin Huh (EBA, GOV-Political Theory, ‘24) plans to attend. “I chose Stanford because of the opportunities that come with attending a higher-ranked law school," he said. "I do not know for sure what type of law I want to go into, so I wanted to maximize my options coming out of law school.”
Huh participated in law-adjacent activities like moot court since high school. “Those experiences have shown me that the way I think and approach problems aligns well with how the law works,” he said. “I'm pursuing law school because I enjoy the intellectual challenge that law presents and feel that it is the best way that I can use my gifts to help other people.”
While at PHC, he and Hope Turner were one of two teams who brought home a double championship—PHC's 13th championship title—in the 2023 AMCA Moot Court National Tournament. They also earned 1st place in Brief Writing. The next year, he and Trinity Klomparens won 1st place for their written Petitioner brief. This made him the third PHC student to win two brief writing championships. Huh and Klomparens finished this past moot court season 3rd in the nation. 
Huh double-majored in GOV-Political Theory and Economics & Business Analytics because he thought that combination would prepare him best for law school. “Coming into PHC, I was a competent but not stellar writer, so I wanted a major that would force me to write continuously,” he said. “After taking Freedom’s [Foundations] with Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Bayer, I realized Political Theory was a perfect fit.”
He liked EBA for its practical focus. “Exercises like analyzing Harvard case studies in Mr. Schmidt's class helped me hone my ability to extract relevant information from messy fact patterns—a skill that Dr. Merriam stresses is key for law students to have,” he said.
Although Huh benefited from PHC’s quality classes like Constitutional Law and from PHC’s stellar moot court program, the greatest asset was PHC’s community. “At PHC, I was so blessed to have like-minded, career-focused upperclassmen around me who were willing to mentor me and help me along my law school journey,” he said. “I doubt I would have had so many people pouring into me at a larger school or a school without PHC's shared values.”
He looks forward to finally starting law school classes. “Over the past four years, I have done everything I can to learn about the law and participate in law-related activities, but there is only so much you can do as an undergraduate. It will be so satisfying to finally dive into a subject that I have peripherally studied for so long."
Patrick Henry College exists to glorify God by challenging the status quo in higher education, lifting high both faith and reason within a rigorous academic environment; thereby preserving for posterity the ideals behind the "noble experiment in ordered liberty" that is the foundation of America.
