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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is merit aid, especially if you are a resident of the state where you're attending a state school. She will need excellent undergrad GPA and high LSAT score. College major does not really matter for admissions. 
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Ok, can we get a straight answer? Some people are saying “No way, no how—no free money to law students. Just loans.”

Others are saying there IS free money at at least some law schools in the form of merit aid.

Which is true?[/quote]

I really don't know how things are now. But maybe what I have to add will help at least a little. 20 years ago I was offered a full scholarship to Northern IL. They contacted me, told me about the scholarship, and asked me to come to their diversity open house. I called them and told them they'd made a mistake, that I'm white, and the admissions coordinator told me "Oh, please come to the open house, we don't have a lot of women here." It's been long enough that I imagine that is not still the case (gosh, I hope not). But the offer for that full ride clearly came to me because they were trying to diversify their class. FWIW, I lived in Chicago at the time, and I think they were looking to recruit in-state people. Notre Dame also contacted me offering scholarship money (although not a full ride). I think a few other schools did as well, but I remember those two because I actually considered Notre Dame and the IL diversity story struck me as strange. I got these offers out of the blue (I had not applied to N IL or Notre Dame) because when I took the LSAT there was a checkbox you could check allowing them to release your scores to law schools for recruiting purposes and I checked it, and then got a 99th percentile LSAT score.

I ended up full pay at a law school that didn't offer me money because it was my first choice and my grandmother graciously offered to pay. [/quote]

That was the wrong answer to the northern IL school. PP should have declined to show by saying she couldn't afford a bus fare to the school. [/quote]

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