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Ok y'all, so I saw a thread like this for ASW dates and for how people are notified of admissions decisions, but thought it might be useful to have one for when each school generally notifies people of scholarship awards, what schools they consider in negotiating, and how they will be notified. At work right now so can't fill this all in yet, but will slowly get to it. If you want to contribute I will be able to do this much faster, TYIA!

Hopefully this, the ASW dates, and the admission decision notifcation method threads will all become trends and continue for future application cycles

1. Yale Law School
Scholarship Notifications:
Notification Method:
Awards From Other Schools They Consider:

2. Stanford Law School
Scholarship Notifications Come Out:
Notification Method:
Awards From Other Schools They Consider:

3. Harvard Law School
Scholarship Notifications Come Out:
Notification Method:
Awards From Other Schools They Consider:

4. Columbia Law School
Scholarship Notifications Come Out: Butler (50%) and Hamilton (100%) offers come with initial acceptance letter. Additional offers made in late March
Notification Method: Snail mail
Awards From Other Schools They Consider: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, NYU, Chicago

5. Chicago Law School
Scholarship Notifications Come Out: Beginning in late February
Notification Method: Email
Awards From Other Schools They Consider: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, NYU,

6. NYU
Scholarship Notifications Come Out: 2-3 weeks after submitting Need Access and FAFSA (both required before receiving a decision)
Notification Method: Email
Awards From Other Schools They Consider: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago

7. Berkeley
Scholarship Notifications Come Out: Rolling basis beginning in March
Notification Method: Email
Awards From Other Schools They Consider: According to the matching policy on their website, every T14 except Northwestern

8. UPenn
Scholarship Notifications Come Out: Wilson and Levy invites on a rolling basis beginning in January; Other merit scholarships on a rolling basis starting in March (although the bulk of decisions usually come out in April)
Notification Method: Email & Snail Mail
Awards From Other Schools They Consider: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, NYU

9. UVA
Scholarship Notifications Come Out: With Acceptance OR 2nd Round in March/April
Notification Method: Phone call and/or email
Awards From Other Schools They Consider: HYS CCN Michigan, Duke, Cornell, Georgetown

10. Michigan
Scholarship Notifications Come Out: 2-4 weeks after being admitted
Notification Method: Admitted Students Website, Under "Mail & Money" --> "Financial Aid Award Information", followed by snail mail letter.
Awards From Other Schools They Consider: HYS CCN UVA, Duke, Cornell, Georgetown

11. Duke
Scholarship Notifications Come Out: Beginning in late February
Notification Method: Based on order they received scholarship applications
Awards From Other Schools They Consider: All T14's

12. Northwestern
Scholarship Notifications Come Out:
Notification Method:
Awards From Other Schools They Consider: All T14's

13. Cornell
Scholarship Notifications Come Out: Rolling basis starting in January (Deans (100%) scholarship invitations come with initial acceptances beginning in October, these decisions also made beginning in January)
Notification Method: Email
Awards From Other Schools They Consider: All T14's

14. Georgetown
Scholarship Notifications Come Out: Rolling basis starting in ____
Notification Method: Email
Awards From Other Schools They Consider: All T14's

Good idea. Michigan's come out a about 2-4 weeks after your admit decision (earliest admits wait a month, later in cycle it's 2-3 weeks) on the Admitted Students Website. Duke sends theirs beginning in late February in the order in which they received scholarship applications via Post Mail.

UVA: via phone call with admission offer
Michigan: 2-3 weeks after admission via snail mail and online financial aid website

What is the basis for the "Awards From Other Schools They Consider" data? Where did you get this information from?

fallingup wrote:What is the basis for the "Awards From Other Schools They Consider" data? Where did you get this information from?

Just based on anecdotal evidence either IRL or from what others have posted on TLS. There will never be much published data for this, unless more schools follow Berkeley's lead and do "matching scholarship" programs and then list on their websites what schools they will compete with.

I hope to be able to get this all done over the weekend...doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in this, probably bc no one goes into the financial aid forum much lol.

JamesDean1955 wrote:

fallingup wrote:What is the basis for the "Awards From Other Schools They Consider" data? Where did you get this information from?

Just based on anecdotal evidence either IRL or from what others have posted on TLS. There will never be much published data for this, unless more schools follow Berkeley's lead and do "matching scholarship" programs and then list on their websites what schools they will compete with.

I hope to be able to get this all done over the weekend...doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in this, probably bc no one goes into the financial aid forum much lol.

i'm very interested! i think people don't come in here but posting links to this in the A/D/W forum should help.

twinkletoes16 wrote:

JamesDean1955 wrote:

fallingup wrote:What is the basis for the "Awards From Other Schools They Consider" data? Where did you get this information from?

Just based on anecdotal evidence either IRL or from what others have posted on TLS. There will never be much published data for this, unless more schools follow Berkeley's lead and do "matching scholarship" programs and then list on their websites what schools they will compete with.

I hope to be able to get this all done over the weekend...doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in this, probably bc no one goes into the financial aid forum much lol.

i'm very interested! i think people don't come in here but posting links to this in the A/D/W forum should help.

That would be awesome, thanks twinkletoes! I've had your awesome threads bookmarked for awhile now, and they are what inspired me to create this thread.

Will have this all done this weekend, for sure (although I do need help from some HYS folks bc I applied everywhere but HYS and I know nothing about their scholarship policies).

Also, if anyone wants other schools added, outside of T14, just let me know!

NYU: Via email, 2-3 weeks after filling out Need Access and FAFSA (they don't even consider applicants for merit-based schollies without filling these out).

Updated, will also do a second list that sorts by date.

Still need info on: Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern, and Georgetown (they had that weird thing with scholarships this year...not sure if that is the new normal).

Michigan's scholarship letter specifically states that they do not negotiate their scholarships.

Is it still worth trying?