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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Tell that to wikipedia, Spivey, and all of the students trying to get into law school:

from wiki:  Top 14 law schools
There exists an informal and unofficial category known as the "Top Fourteen" or "T14", which has historically referred to the institutions that most frequently claim the top fourteen spots in the yearly U.S. News & World Report ranking of American law schools.[6] Furthermore, the "T14" schools remain the only ones to have ever placed within the top ten spots in these rankings.[7] Although "T14" is not a designation used by U.S. News itself, the term is "widely known in the legal community."[8] While these schools have seen their position within the top group shift frequently, they have consistently placed within the top fourteen since the inception of the rankings. Because of their consistent placement at the top of the US News rankings, the schools that have most frequently taken the top fourteen spots are commonly referred to as the "Top Fourteen" by published books on law school admissions,[9] undergraduate university pre-law advisers,[10] professional law school consultants, and newspaper articles on the subject.[11]

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]

This is ridiculous. The difference between 14-17 is meaningless. Those schools are always moving around. [/quote][/quote]

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