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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's unclear what effect the recent actions of Yale & others re: not cooperating with USNWR will have on this, but, in the past, law schools have been very sensitive to rankings & compete for the highest GPAs & LSAT scores.  It's not like undergraduate where you only get merit for schools that are lower ranked than the schools you're qualified for.

A top law school will provide merit for a kid with top LSAT scores.  I've helped my law school recruit top students and have seen law schools basically get into a bidding war over the amount of aid available.

FWIW, I think the rankings will continue to matter because USNWR can get the data they need from other sources, and no matter what Yale et al say, they don't want to drop in the rankings.

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Interesting. In the early 90s, I had 99th percentile LSAT score and spouse had a perfect Lsat score, we both had graduated undergrad from ivies, and neither of us were offerred merit aid from any law school. We both attended GW, fwiw.[/quote]

This was a change that came in the early 2010s. The number of students applying to law school dropped and the competition for good students became intense. Some schools reduced the size of their classes rather than lower their standards, but they also started making more generous financial aid offers to students with good stats. [/quote]

But all of that shifted again with the surge of law school applicants during the early COViD years when new graduates had promised jobs pulled and couldn’t find work so went back to school. This year is the first where applicant numbers are starting to go back to normal. Because there were plenty of full oy students from here and abroad merit awards dried up.[/quote]

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