BENEFITS OF HARVARD MOCK TRIAL
Are you interested in the law? Do you enjoy public speaking, acting, or even mock trial itself? Join Harvard Mock Trial!

• Win. A lot.  Harvard has won its Nationals Divison more times and produced more All-Americans in the past five years than any other team in the country has in the past ten.  Since 2005 we've won our regional four times and had six teams place 3rd or better at the National Championship.  And don't think you'll miss out on bringing home hardware in your first year, either - since 2005, more than 30 new members have competed at the national level of competition, and freshmen and sophomores have taken home eight All-American Awards.  If you have the drive to compete and win at the highest levels, this is the team for you.
  
  
• Travel across the country.  Each year we travel throughout the United States for tournaments, and in the past have competed everywhere from New York City and Washington, DC to Memphis, TN and St. Petersburg, FL.  This year promises returns to the Big Apple and the Nation's Capitol, as well as a trip to North Carolina and a January escape to sunny Miami, Florida.
  
  
• Meet amazing people.  Teams spend a lot of time working, traveling, and competing together.  Members become very close friends.  In addition, the Harvard Mock Trial Association holds regular parties and social events to encourage friendships between teams.  Everyone in the program agrees that Harvard Mock Trial has been responsible for some of their fondest college experiences and closest friendships.
  
  
• Improve your public speaking.  No other activity teaches you to communicate and think on your feet like mock trial.  After you've delivered a closing argument to a panel of federal judges in the National Championship or been forced to improvise a cross-examination against an All-American witness, class presentations and section discussions will seem like a piece of cake.
   
  
• Express your creative side.  Some of the most important people on any mock trial team are witnesses.  Mock trial offers the chance to develop and play any type of character, from a world-renowned HIV researcher to a pampered Hollywood celebrity to a convicted murderer.  As a witness, you can develop your acting skills, improve your impromptu thinking, learn about the law from a unique vantage point, and even experiment with costume design.
  
  
• Spend time in real courtrooms arguing before real judges.  No other undergraduate organization offers you the chance to make arguments in front of large crowds and State Supreme Court Justices.  We've done it.  If you join, you may get that chance too!
  
  
• Run a business.  Unlike nearly all other top mock trial programs around the country, Harvard Mock Trial is 100% student run.  This means that you won't just have the chance to compete in tournaments - if you want to, you'll have the opportunity to learn how to run an organization, whether that comes in the form of planning a 300-person mock trial seminar for high school students, managing a $40,000 budget, or training the next generation of National-caliber competitors.
  
  
• Succeed in life after college - no matter your field of choice.  Although some members of our team are interested in the law, the analytical and communication skills gained from mock trial are broadly applicable.  Recent alumni have gone on to earn JDs at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, PhDs at Cal Tech, MDs and MBAs at Harvard, and have even gone straight into the work world with programs like Teach for America and companies like Goldman Sachs, Bain, and McKinsey.

If you join Mock Trial, you'll have fun competing at the highest levels, spending time with amazing people, and challenging yourself in a way no other student organization can!