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[b]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.  [/b]

[/quote] Interesting that they got into a bidding war. Yet Imsaw on r/lawschooladmissions that a candidate had her offer rescinded when she tried to negotiate with UCLA for better merit aid.[/quote]

The T14 don’t do this. Less elite schools will pay for a high GPA or LSAT but the top don’t because they don’t have to.[/quote]

Maybe 20 years ago, but they do now. Maybe not Harvard and Yale, but Harvard cited the practice as a reason it was pulling out of the USNWR rankings (meaning its competitors are doing it and they were feeling the pressure to do it, too).

https://hls.harvard.edu/today/decision-to-withdraw-from-the-u-s-news-world-report-process/

Second, by heavily weighting students’ test scores and college grades, the U.S. News rankings have over the years created incentives for law schools to direct more financial aid toward applicants based on their LSAT scores and college GPAs without regard to their financial need. Though HLS and YLS have each resisted the pull toward so-called merit aid, it has become increasingly prevalent, absorbing scarce resources that could be allocated more directly on the basis of need.[/quote]

This is not true. T14s give merit aid full stop. [/quote]

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