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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]

I don’t have to talk to a law student. I have been in BigLaw and active in interviewing/hiring law students my entire career. Pp is correct, and you are wrong. “T-14” is shorthand for “top law schools,” but it is not that cut and dried in the real world. Georgetown, e.g., has gone in and out of the “T-14.” It doesn’t suddenly become less desirable at 15.  Nor does going to a school like Vanderbilt or UT Austin give you a significantly different result. At the same time, there is a distance between 1-4 or so and 14.  Is it better to go to the highest ranked school you can? Sure.  Does it suddenly become pointless to go to Georgetown because it’s ranked 15 this year? Of course not. [/quote]

Former Biglaw partner here.  I disagree.  I believe it is generally understood in big law that Georgetown is a better school than Vanderbilt.  It is certainly more selective.  [/quote]

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