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[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]

My kid applied in Fall of 2020 while a senior at a non-HYP Ivy with a 4.0 liberal arts double major and 180 LSAT. Ended up going to UChicago with full scholarship plus $20K annual stipend.

[b]Yale[/b]: WL (they ended up taking 0 WL students that year, and only 16 students straight out of undergrad)
[b]Harvard[/b]: Accepted, meager need-based aid along with the expectation that I pay $30,000/year (which is about in-line with undergrad EFC)
[b]NYU, Michigan[/b]: Accepted, didn't get named full-ride scholarship
[b]Columbia, UVA, Penn[/b]: Put on "reserve," didn't write optional "Why our school?" essay w initial app, didn't follow-up with letter of continued interest, eventually got WL'd by a couple and literally never received a final decision letter from one. Feels like those might have been yield protection decisions, but I'm well aware that might also be sour grapes on my part!

As noted above, Harvard, Yale and Stanford don't give merit scholarships. The Yale dean has launched an offensive saying that schools who give merit scholarships are just subsidizing rich kids and should focus their financial aid on need-based students. I think that is a very self-serving argument rooted in frustration that pretty much the only reason YLS's yield is 81% instead of 100% is that a handful of admitted students take full-ride offers somewhere else. I can assure you that my kid's merit aid was not subsidizing a rich family!
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Actually, people who pay full freight are subsidizing others.  [/quote]

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