Rich kids take a gap year and then get to prestigious law schools? How?
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Anonymous
Yes, especially the rich full pay part. |
Anonymous
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Idk but they will probably hate the work within five years. Haha. So many lawyers hate practicing law.
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Anonymous
Jealous? They were my daughters’ sorority sisters. |
Anonymous
Are you being serious? Top law schools have need aware financial aid and prefer full pay students? I thought everyone at elite law schools is taking out loans or has parents paying. Why would an elite law school value cash over a smart kid paying with loans? |
Anonymous
How on earth would the law school admissions people know that? |
Anonymous
Wait, is there that much scholarship money available - for law school? |
Anonymous
Nationwide? So they might never cross paths? |
Anonymous
NP. There is virtually no scholarship money available for law school. Most top schools like those the OP listed give out almost none, some people might get scholarships from third parties if they are focused on a specific area of law but it's incredibly rare. Lower ranked schools sometimes offer merit aid to get people who would otherwise get into top schools -- I've heard of people getting merit aid for places like Fordham that are not terrible schools but kind of on the bubble and can really benefit from the numbers boost if they can pick up some people who were admitted to places like Georgetown or Duke. But even that is not common and I think you need near perfect numbers for it. So that's the whole point -- would would law schools care if an applicant were full pay or not? They are either paying out of pocket or taking out loans. Either way, the school is not ponying up money. It's not like undergrad where top schools will guarantee need-based aid, or a combo of merit and need-based aid, for all admitted students. In law school, it's loans and you figure it out yourself. |
Anonymous
My kid got an 80% merit based scholarship to a top 15. We would have paid for a top 10 school but no offers. |
Anonymous
| I would only consider 2 of those prestigious. The rest are just okay. |
Anonymous
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They probably have good LSATs scores, got in, then deferred for a year or just took that year off while applying.
Most law schools don't care about work experience after college IME. |
Anonymous
Well aren’t you special. |
Anonymous
| Did they take a gap year or did they work? |
Anonymous
| Maybe they spent some of that time tracing daddy’s connections to someone who has some influence on admissions at a major law school. Or are you going to tell me lawyers are too ethical for such shenanigans. |
Anonymous
This is true. Law schools are cash cows for these universities. They are ridiculously expensive for what they are. And for the most part, just high GPA/LSAT works so the schools can keep their prestige up. |