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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent, my 1st question is how hard or is it possible to get scholarships/FA from a top 14 law school? DC is attending college in the fall at a top SLAC and is aspiring to study environmental science, law and public policies. Any advice will be appreciated! [/quote]

Not OP, but I got one at Georgetown.  My sense of what were the contributing factors: (1) high LSAT (174); (2) hard-core major (math); (3) good undergrad grades; and (4) documented interest in a particular specialty (law & econ/antitrust).

Other people had better LSAT scores and better grades than I did, so it was not just about those two numbers.[/quote]

Georgetown law school is well known for awarding lots of merit scholarships to both incoming first year law students as well as to transfer law students.

The top 3 law schools (Yale, Stanford, & Harvard) do not award merit scholarships, but these law schools do award need based financial aid.[/quote]

I don't disagree, but the poster asked about T-14, which includes Georgetown.  [/quote]

No, Georgetown is T15. https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/georgetown-university-03032[/quote]

The schools at 14-16 move around pretty frequently. It’s why a student with high stats is more likely to get a merit scholarship from these schools. They’re constantly competing to improve their rankings.[/quote]

No they don’t. There is a significant drop off at T14 which is why the Dean and others keep referring to it.[/quote]

DP. T14 is a phrase referring to the group of tier 1 law schools (without getting in arguments about which is the very best). Georgetown is generally understood to be in that group whether or not this year they have dropped to 15 in USNWR.

The idea that there is a huge dropoff from UCLA to Georgetown because this year USNWR changed their methodology and those schools switched places is just silly. [/quote]

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