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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 1:53 pm
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OP said nothing about being tricked by scholarship requirements or having anything rigged. OP just wants to be rewarded for performing well once he got into law school.Locke N. Lawded wrote:I think your best bet is to try to transfer out of there.
I was one of those insufferable people that did all the law school tours, so I know everyone in admissions at my school, and they straight up told me that scholarship money exists solely to lure in the students with the best stats and to boost diversity.
The scholarship racket is the most insidious part of the law school scam, in my opinion. You get roped in believing that you'll be able to maintain the required GPA ("I've always had a high GPA! A 3.5 is nothing!") But, as you may know, the game is rigged. More scholarships are offered to students--about 60% at many schools--than can possibly be maintained. This is done by loading one section with all the scholarship recipients and rolling out a vicious 1L curve. Your law school is not unique.
Why would they give you more money now? They've already got you. Of course, they'll probably make it hard for you to transfer, but if you are going to be stuck with loans anyway, go to the best school that you can.
Yeah, which is also why s/he's probably having trouble getting more money--there were no strings attached to the scholarships that went to other people, so now that s/he is out-perfoming them, the school can't reassign the money.tkgrrett wrote:OP said nothing about being tricked by scholarship requirements or having anything rigged. OP just wants to be rewarded for performing well once he got into law school.Locke N. Lawded wrote:I think your best bet is to try to transfer out of there.
I was one of those insufferable people that did all the law school tours, so I know everyone in admissions at my school, and they straight up told me that scholarship money exists solely to lure in the students with the best stats and to boost diversity.
The scholarship racket is the most insidious part of the law school scam, in my opinion. You get roped in believing that you'll be able to maintain the required GPA ("I've always had a high GPA! A 3.5 is nothing!") But, as you may know, the game is rigged. More scholarships are offered to students--about 60% at many schools--than can possibly be maintained. This is done by loading one section with all the scholarship recipients and rolling out a vicious 1L curve. Your law school is not unique.
Why would they give you more money now? They've already got you. Of course, they'll probably make it hard for you to transfer, but if you are going to be stuck with loans anyway, go to the best school that you can.
RC fail. This is totally irrelevance to this whole discussion.Locke N. Lawded wrote: The scholarship racket is the most insidious part of the law school scam, in my opinion. You get roped in believing that you'll be able to maintain the required GPA ("I've always had a high GPA! A 3.5 is nothing!") But, as you may know, the game is rigged. More scholarships are offered to students--about 60% at many schools--than can possibly be maintained. This is done by loading one section with all the scholarship recipients and rolling out a vicious 1L curve. Your law school is not unique.
I wouldn't be so sure that there's an extra pool of money. If there was, they'd probably have a formal scholarship system for high-performers (as do some schools). They're probably using every last dollar of scholarship money to manage their USNWR rankings.Hamilton wrote:Yeah, they said part of the problem is since there are no (stringent) GPA requirements for scholarships, they can't take them away from others to give to those who actually did well. I was thinking there's gotta be some dean's discretionary funds, or general scholarship funds, or something. The question is what's the best approach to get them. Just an honest and sincere "come on, I did well, can't I get something?" or a "how can i justify staying here on no money when i can transfer and still get no money" and hope they don't call my bluff, or or actually just say "if there really is nothing you can do for me, thanks for a great year" and head on my way?
OP, you really should stress how much you love the school. Really stress that you do not want to leave, but you can't justify staying if you can go to one of the elite schools in the country for about the same price. Admissions offices aren't made up of computers or LSP calculators that just spit out scholarship money based on LSAT/GPA/URM status. You are dealing with people, so there is a personal element to it as well. If you can appeal to them on a personal level, you'll likely have more success.Hamilton wrote:Yeah, they said part of the problem is since there are no (stringent) GPA requirements for scholarships, they can't take them away from others to give to those who actually did well. I was thinking there's gotta be some dean's discretionary funds, or general scholarship funds, or something. The question is what's the best approach to get them. Just an honest and sincere "come on, I did well, can't I get something?" or a "how can i justify staying here on no money when i can transfer and still get no money" and hope they don't call my bluff, or or actually just say "if there really is nothing you can do for me, thanks for a great year" and head on my way?