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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Law school need based aid is intended only for students coming from real poverty.[/b]  Merit aid is available if you are willing to go to a lower ranked school.

I was in my 30s and had been married for several years when I went to law school.  They still wanted my parents' financial information on order for me to apply for loans.  It was beyond ridiculous and my parents didn't want to give me their private information, and I can't blame them.  Parent info shouldn't be required if you aren't seeking need based aid.[/quote]

Not true to the best of my knowledge.

The most elite law schools (Harvard, Yale, & Stanford) offer only need-based aid for which many students qualify & receive.

OP: You need to research which law schools offer need-based aid as I believe that it is not common.[/quote]

This is misleading. The truly elite law schools (Harvard, Yale, and Stanford) do not offer any merit aid, but the need-based aid is also limited almost entirely to loans. The baseline expectation for law school is that students will be responsible for it themselves--whether through loans or scholarships. I paid for law school with a full tuition scholarship and loans to cover living expesnses. My husband paid for law school (at Harvard, Yale, or Stanford) with loans--which he paid off within the decade through a combination of aggressive repayment and loan forgiveness. Most of my colleagues took out loans for law school. Some do have parents pay, but that certainly was not that baseline expectation. [/quote]

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