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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How common is a full ride to an Ivy law school? I have heard that with a certain gpa and lsat that it is a possibility. Is this true?[/quote]

Common?  About as common as flying monkeys.  As with undergraduate the Ivies focus on need based aid, not merit.  They also consider parent income/assets for applicants below certain age limits, i.e. for HLS unless over 29.   [/quote]

[b]When 40% of Harvard law students are on GRANTS as most of their need-based aid it is not as dire as you make it. Another chunk have all-loan aid because they are not as needy. [/b]
The rest of the ivies are similar. [/quote]

No, 38% are on financial aid because they have demonstrated sufficient need. The rest of Harvard Law’s students pay full freight, which is $126,650.  If you want an off campus apt, you are looking realistically, in Cambridge, at $146,500 a year x 3 years. There is no merit at Harvard because it doesn’t need to offer it to fill its class.

Yes, GPA and LSAT are paramount. Harvard’s 75th percentile is a perfect 4.0 and have a 176 or better. There are online interviews if you get that far.

80% of Harvard’s Law students take off at least one year. 17% of that 80% take off more than four. 20% have advanced degrees.

There really is no such thing as pre-law. Your kid should major in something they enjoy, which teaches critical reading and lots of writing. Good luck. It’s a long road.

FWIW my kid applied to seven law schools and received merit (full tuition) only at Scalia Law.  No merit aid or financial aid anywhere else. So plan ahead. It’s a seller’s market; I don’t see that changing in the near future.[/quote]

Merit is there for those that are tops, yours just wasn't. Our neighbor (who graduated HPS in engineering, one gap year at a startup) got into six T14s and got merit at two of them, including a full ride, which he picked, at a school ranked most years between 4 and 7. This student knows multiple undergrad peers who got some merit at T14s (not need, though that exists too). My kid is at a different top school undergrad and has several class of 2025 and 2026 friends getting merit at top law (and med). [/quote]

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