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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know if school policies have changed, but when DH went to ivy law school the financial aid application required parents’ info if student hadn’t been financially independent for at least 7 years. So school expected parents to help pay. [/quote]

[b]Nope.  Not any more.  There are scholarships for the brightest of the bright at all law schools these days.   They will pay for the right stats no matter what your income. [/b][/quote]

Yeah, but if they are trying to up the stats by funding merit aide scholarships with the tuition from average students then what happens when the average student can’t take out loans to fund it?  If those scholarships are funded via donations the  I assume they are fine.[/quote]

Incorrect. It’s a Seller’s market today for law schools. For example, Harvard, where I attended and DD just started, doesn’t  offer any merit aid. https://hls.harvard.edu/sfs/prospective-and-admitted-students/prospective-and-admitted-need-based-aid-philosophy/. DD applied to 8 law schools and was not offered any merit aid notwithstanding top GPA, LSAT and a D.Phil from Oxbridge. When merit IS offered, it is to lure a URM away from attending another top Law school.  Now, if you want to drop
Down to T40 schools you might get half-tuition or full tuition but only if the applicant has something that that law school wants.[/quote]

I would argue this starts at least in the second 1/2 of the T14.[/quote]

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