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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]This is not exactly true - for top stats all law schools except for HYS offer various major scholarships for merit with no thought of how much your parents make - this includes Penn, Chicago, Columbia, Duke, UVA and all the others.    Our DS took one of these and graduated with no debt- scholarships like these look great on resumes too.  [/quote][/b]

But almost all of those go to URM students. My DD used an online service recommended by her LSAT tutor which laid this out via self-reporting from students who used the service. (The schools themselves don’t want to acknowledge this).  There might be a few merit scholarships in the T14 for the perfect 800 but schools like Harvard already get enough applicants with 800s so doesn’t need to offer merit at all. I’m getting the name of the service from her and will post back.[/quote]

I hate this kind of cope. My kid is as white as they come and got a full ride merit scholarship to a Top 6 law school. They also had a 180 LSAT and a 4.0 GPA and were Phi Beta Kappa at an Ivy League school. That’s who is getting these merit scholarships but instead people make up a fictional person of color to be mad about instead of conceding that for these extremely selective scholarships, there were more qualified applicants than their own kid

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