grades?? wrote:proteinshake wrote:SilverSurfer2020 wrote:Received scholarship today, a little stingy. I'm pretty disappointed as I have received more $$$ to schools with a better ranking. I'd really like to go to Duke, how soon is it okay to begin the negotiation process?
I think duke does that because they're located in a low COL area. so 100K at Duke >>> 100K at like, NU or Michigan.
This is the case. A 80k scholarship goes farther at Duke than 150k at say Penn. The cost of living in Durham is amazing, its great. As far as Nixon goes, we are only 1 of three law schools I believe with a President-Yale Harvard and Duke. While Nixon might not be the most well-regarded Prez, at least he isn't the worst any more! Also, by all accounts he was a great law student when he was here. His problems much later in life didn't necessarily materialize here from what some professors in the know describe.
Feel free to pm me any questions you have. But it is easy to get caught up in something like well Penn gave me slightly more money, so Duke is being stringy. No, Duke usually gives out pretty generous offers and knows its cost of living is significantly lower than most other t10 law schools.
In addition, somewhere around 80%+ of students get scholarships. They share the love rather than having a majority of students subsidize the schollies/tuition like at other schools.