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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent, my 1st question is how hard or is it possible to get scholarships/FA from a top 14 law school? DC is attending college in the fall at a top SLAC and is aspiring to study environmental science, law and public policies. Any advice will be appreciated! [/quote]

Not OP, but I got one at Georgetown.  My sense of what were the contributing factors: (1) high LSAT (174); (2) hard-core major (math); (3) good undergrad grades; and (4) documented interest in a particular specialty (law & econ/antitrust).

Other people had better LSAT scores and better grades than I did, so it was not just about those two numbers.[/quote]

Georgetown law school is well known for awarding lots of merit scholarships to both incoming first year law students as well as to transfer law students.

The top 3 law schools (Yale, Stanford, & Harvard) do not award merit scholarships, but these law schools do award need based financial aid.[/quote]

I don't disagree, but the poster asked about T-14, which includes Georgetown.  [/quote]

No, Georgetown is T15. https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/georgetown-university-03032[/quote]

The schools at 14-16 move around pretty frequently. It’s why a student with high stats is more likely to get a merit scholarship from these schools. They’re constantly competing to improve their rankings.[/quote]

No they don’t. There is a significant drop off at T14 which is why the Dean and others keep referring to it.[/quote]

This is ridiculous. [b]The difference between 14-17 is meaningless[/b]. Those schools are always moving around. [/quote]

Not in today's law and nomenclature. https://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/bid-211356-why-are-the-top-14-law-schools-called-the-top-14/.  Talk to any student trying to get into law schoool; it's all T14 or bust if they can do it.[/quote]

Also, they believe this:  There’s a natural cut-off between the #14 spot and the #15 spot. There are fourteen law schools that have historically “owned” the top 14 slots in the US News & World Report ranking.

Some schools slide in and out of the Top 10. Other schools slide in and out of the Top 15. But law schools almost never move into or out of the Top 14. Year in and year out, it’s the same fourteen law schools.

We sometimes talk about law schools being in the T6, too. Again, there’s a natural cutoff at that point. Law schools may slide into or out of the Top 5, but the ones in the T6 are the same six law schools year after year.

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This. It’s T14 or bust and that’s never been more true than it is today when law school is $108k a year. After expending that kind of money x 3 you want to make sure there is a job awaiting for you on the other side.[/quote]

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