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Which full-tuition scholarship is the hardest to get?
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:48 am
by 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.
Re: Which full-tuition scholarship is the hardest to get?
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:51 pm
by dixiecupdrinking
All of them.
Re: Which full-tuition scholarship is the hardest to get?
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:58 pm
by JamMasterJ
probably Hamilton, but's it's actually probably something at a much lower ranked school, like the full tuition one at Pitt
Re: Which full-tuition scholarship is the hardest to get?
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:10 pm
by anstone1988
Hamilton
Re: Which full-tuition scholarship is the hardest to get?
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:39 pm
by 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).
Re: Which full-tuition scholarship is the hardest to get?
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:43 pm
by 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.
Re: Which full-tuition scholarship is the hardest to get?
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 5:32 pm
by icpb
What are selection criteria for the Hamilton?
Re: Which full-tuition scholarship is the hardest to get?
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:05 pm
by justinp
icpb wrote: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.
Re: Which full-tuition scholarship is the hardest to get?
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 7:09 pm
by icpb
justinp wrote:icpb wrote: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?
Re: Which full-tuition scholarship is the hardest to get?
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:41 pm
by 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.