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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I assume there are hooks to get into law school...[/quote]

Is being a rich pretty sorority girl a hook?[/quote]

Yes, especially the rich full pay part. [/quote]

Are you being serious? Top law schools have need aware financial aid and prefer full pay students? I thought everyone at elite law schools is taking out loans or has parents paying. Why would an elite law school value cash over a smart kid paying with loans? [/quote]

Wait, is there that much scholarship money available - for law school? [/quote]

NP. There is virtually no scholarship money available for law school. Most top schools like those the OP listed give out almost none, some people might get scholarships from third parties if they are focused on a specific area of law but it's incredibly rare. Lower ranked schools sometimes offer merit aid to get people who would otherwise get into top schools -- I've heard of people getting merit aid for places like Fordham that are not terrible schools but kind of on the bubble and can really benefit from the numbers boost if they can pick up some people who were admitted to places like Georgetown or Duke. But even that is not common and I think you need near perfect numbers for it.

So that's the whole point -- would would law schools care if an applicant were full pay or not? They are either paying out of pocket or taking out loans. Either way, the school is not ponying up money. It's not like undergrad where top schools will guarantee need-based aid, or a combo of merit and need-based aid, for all admitted students. In law school, it's loans and you figure it out yourself.[/quote]

Almost everything in this post is incorrect.

While the top 3 law schools--Yale, Stanford, & Harvard--do not offer merit scholarships (just need based financial aid), the rest do offer merit scholarships. Columbia & Chicago offer merit aid typically to encourage one to forego Harvard. Merit scholarship money is not uncommon at the vast majority of top 14 law schools. [/quote]

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