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[quijotesca1011]

Situation 3: You were accepted to CCN.
TCR: Congratulations, go to a "lower" T14 with a scholarship. Preferably UVA/UMich or if you have WE you must go to Northwestern. CCN are not worth sticker.

Situation 4: You were accepted to Harvard/Stanford.
TCR: Yay, go to CCN with a scholarship. Harvard and Stanford are not worth sticker.

I wish this were a parody but it seems it's actually supposed to be taken seriously?

This notion that scholarships are automatic when you are accepted the next tier up is ever so slightly ridiculous.

How many people get accepted to HYS each year? CCN definitely doesn't have enough significant scholarships between them to cover them all. Same goes to people accepted to CCN - you don't think some of the same people are going to be picking up scholarships from CCN and the lower-T14? that means they are not all floating around for people who only got into CCN. Has anyone actually added up the total number of major scholarships in the T14? I'd be curious to know how many fully-funded/half-funded spaces there actually are.

Yes, a large portion of people might have significant scholarships to contend with when they are being accepted into top-tier schools, but I highly doubt that having a full ride or even a half ride is the norm among the majority of applicants (particularly once you get outside of TLS).

[buffalo_]

Situation 3: You were accepted to CCN.
TCR: Congratulations, go to a "lower" T14 with a scholarship. Preferably UVA/UMich or if you have WE you must go to Northwestern. CCN are not worth sticker.

Situation 4: You were accepted to Harvard/Stanford.
TCR: Yay, go to CCN with a scholarship. Harvard and Stanford are not worth sticker.

I wish this were a parody but it seems it's actually supposed to be taken seriously?

This notion that scholarships are automatic when you are accepted the next tier up is ever so slightly ridiculous.

How many people get accepted to HYS each year? CCN definitely doesn't have enough significant scholarships between them to cover them all. Same goes to people accepted to CCN - you don't think some of the same people are going to be picking up scholarships from CCN and the lower-T14? that means they are not all floating around for people who only got into CCN. Has anyone actually added up the total number of major scholarships in the T14? I'd be curious to know how many fully-funded/half-funded spaces there actually are.

Yes, a large portion of people might have significant scholarships to contend with when they are being accepted into top-tier schools, but I highly doubt that having a full ride or even a half ride is the norm among the majority of applicants (particularly once you get outside of TLS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

[d cooper]

Admissions are predictable, but nowhere near this predictable. There are so many problems with this that even an hour on LSN should convince you to scrap it and start over. On the off chance that this isn't a parody, some suggestions:

1) 175 is too high;
2) it's possible to get CCN $$ without being in at HS;
3) it's possible to have more aid at HS than CCN;
4) it's possible to be in at Y and out as HS;
5) it's possible to have more aid at Y than HS; and
6) leaves no room for lower T14 with $$ despite rejections from CCN.

[buffalo_]

Admissions are predictable, but no where near this predictable. There are so many problems with this that even an hour on LSN should convince you to scrap it and start over. On the off chance that this isn't a parody, some suggestions:

1) 175 is too high;
2) it's possible to get CCN $$ without being in at HS;
3) it's possible to have more aid at HS than CCN;
4) it's possible to be in at Y and out as HS;
5) it's possible to have more aid at Y than HS; and
6) leaves no room for lower T14 with $$ despite rejections from CCN.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

[3L2014]

I feel sorry for the people who took this seriously.

[EquallyWrong]

There should be many caveats for splitters. I feel left out of this "conventional" TLS wisdom. For example, the highest ranked school I got into gave me the most aid out of the T-13 (note: I am guilty of egregious anti-GULC trolling). Shit's unpredictable!!!

TLS forum can put certain ideas in your head that may help you if you had not considered them or imagined they might be effective...things like retaking or taking lower ranked with money. Yes, OP, it can be shallow and predictable after awhile...but sometimes getting cold feet can be valuable. It only becomes obnoxious when your fellow 0Ls parrot this advice back to you as if they were wise old law school admissions consultants but without the professional tact.
+1 for shit being unpredictable.

ETA: I'm taking the post as a parody.

[Jchance]

Where's one for IP?

[banjo]

Applicants in California should attend a reasonable school at a reasonable price that a reasonably prudent person would be able to pay off in a reasonable time.

(law joke)

[cotiger]

Has anyone actually added up the total number of major scholarships in the T14? I'd be curious to know how many fully-funded/half-funded spaces there actually are.

Last year, there were appx 370 half-tuition or greater scholarship students at non-YHS T14.

This doesn't even begin to answer your other question, as there are significantly more scholarships available than are taken. Most people choose YHS over a Butler or even full-ride at lower T14.

Still, interesting to see how few people eventually take the money.

[iamgeorgebush]

this is a bad thread

[Nonconsecutive]

Just pointing out that no one ever has "Y no money" vs. "H/S money."

Also, what to you mean by "substantial" scholarship?

Not true. I can't speak to Y, but I know that H and S calculated my aid WAY different to the point that one would have cost 200,000 more than the other.

Are you sure you didn't just fuck up Harvard's forms somewhere?

Yep-- appealed the decision and everything. They just look at things differently.

Shit dude, that's crazy. SLS was more generous for me, but nowhere near that level of difference.