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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC just started 2nd year as a NYC big law associate.  Graduated from a top 5 Law School.  Got a huge merit scholarship for law school coming from a state university.  Debt free thanks to great grades and LSAT scores.  Works in Corporate Finance.  Works hard but deal closings have up and down times and better quality of life generally than litigation.  Enjoys practice group and salary exceeding $250 K.   Worked minimally Thanksgiving weekend.  [/quote]

Top 5 law schools don’t hand out huge merit scholarships.  Name the school. [/quote]

People always say this but they’re wrong. My kid got a Rubenstein Scholarship to UChicago Law, as did at least 10% of his class. Full ride plus $20k annual stipend [/quote]

You might have bothered mentioning that the Rubenstein is only for URM low-income applicants as are most of the law merit scholarships. My kid is applying now. There is no merit at Harvard (my school), yale or stanford and those scholarships offered in the remaining T11 are almost always for URM/low income and not generous. He was told by a former Dean of a T4 that he would have to change skin color even with a 177, top grades and degrees from Oxbridge, to get merit. It is what it is. So  we are planning - again - for full freight.

FWIW his white friends who got half tuition had to drop down to T40s and T60s, where, like with colleges, some law will trade scholarship monies for a top LSAT score or GPA or Rhodes bragging points[/quote]

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