Which full-tuition scholarship is the hardest to get? Forum

[1988AndX]

Many law schools are secretive about the number of offers made for their full-tuition scholarships. Since it's hard to assess the difficulty of getting one of those full-tuition scholarships based on publicly available data, hopefully a poll based on the collective knowledge of TLSers would offer potentially valuable information for future applicants.

[dixiecupdrinking]

All of them.

[JamMasterJ]

probably Hamilton, but's it's actually probably something at a much lower ranked school, like the full tuition one at Pitt

[anstone1988]

Hamilton

[CanadianWolf]

Hamilton at Columbia because it seems to be designed to divert Harvard &, maybe, Yale acceptees to Columbia (while the others seem to target Columbia acceptees).

[bk1]

Probably the ones that are given out to a single person each year at top schools. I know that includes the Rothman at USC , if I'm not mistaken, the RTK at NYU as well, and maybe others.

[icpb]

What are selection criteria for the Hamilton?

[justinp]

What are selection criteria for the Hamilton?

No idea, but my guess would be that it's the stuff you'd expect-- high scores, good PS and recs, and good softs.

There doesn't seem to be any rocket science to it, I guess is what I'm saying.

[icpb]

What are selection criteria for the Hamilton?

No idea, but my guess would be that it's the stuff you'd expect-- high scores, good PS and recs, and good softs.

There doesn't seem to be any rocket science to it, I guess is what I'm saying.

It is a blackbox not totally based on numbers then?

[justinp]

Well, I think you probably need to be over both 75ths, but I don't think they're giving it to EVERYONE who is above both 75ths.

So once you're past the floors, my totally uneducated opinion is that it's a matter of having good softs/LOR/PS.