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[quote=Anonymous](1) Look into the Emory scholarship -- is it guaranteed no matter your grades or do you have to stay within certain percentiles?
(2) Ask to talk to Emory career services and ask about their 2L and 3L OCR process. Don't just take their statistic that x% of people are employed after graduation because sometimes those stats can be rigged as schools will create "jobs" like research, admissions etc. at $8/hr to show people "employed." Instead schedule a call (or meeting if you can get to ATL) and talk to them about how the process works. Get a list of who recruited at Emory this year -- they should have a master list handy. Then ask how you submit for firms -- can every student submit for every firm and then the firms pick who to interview? Or does the school only submit people in the top x% for each job -- to up the chance of offers?

(3) Go through No. 2 with Duke;

(4) Talk to Duke and tell them your situation -- you'd like to go there but in the face of a 2 yr full tuition scholarship at a school that is in the top 20s, you can't justify it; is there anything they can do. Don't expect a lot. Granted I went to law school when there was a lot of demand so schools didn't have to do a lot, but I think the top 14 are still doing fine. I had a 1st yr full ride at Northwestern, and I tried to use that to negotiate some grant money from Penn -- they basically said 'fine here's 10k' -- which obviously is about 1/5 or less of the cost of the 1st yr. It was a very "take it or leave it" vibe and I know a lot of the t14 has that.

Do you have any sense of what you want to do after law school? If you go to Duke full ride, will you need to be in biglaw and have you calculated for how long? Getting into biglaw is obviously an obstacle, but at my NYC biglaw firm staying in past yr 4 is a challenge too. It used to be that 8 yrs were pretty much "guaranteed" (though partnership wasn't) as long as you weren't a screw-up because attrition would take care of the necessary departures. When there was a downturn in attrition due to lack of jobs, firms affirmatively started kicking people to the curb before they became mid-levels. Think about whether it'll take more than 4 yrs to service your debt.[/quote]

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