When Should I Start Negotiating? Forum

[Archibald]

Hi. My situation is:

WUSTL: Accepted with 10k/year
Case Western: Accepted with 40k/year (International Law Fellowship)

Still Waiting on: Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Emory, Boston College, Washington & Lee, William and Mary, Northeastern

I've been thinking maybe I should contact WUSTL, show them my offer from Case to see if that sways them at all, then go back to Case and ask for more (regardless if WUSTL increases). Then I guess I could continue to leverage any other offers, if I get any...?

Should I start now or wait?

Stats are sub 3 GPA, 169 LSAT. Semi-mature student with 3 years work experience as a teacher (in Canada) and a 3.4 GPA in teacher's college.

Thanks for taking the time to read and respond.

[Archibald]

[fliptrip]

It's just too soon for you to start. You have seven schools you're yet to hear from and in those seven you have at least two that you are going to need to have leverage in a negotiation (Vandy and Emory). Let this whole thing unfold and then work from there.

[Archibald]

It's just too soon for you to start. You have seven schools you're yet to hear from and in those seven you have at least two that you are going to need to have leverage in a negotiation (Vandy and Emory). Let this whole thing unfold and then work from there.

Thanks for the input. I'm just thinking about what I'm gunna do around the April 1st deadline.. Hopefully I get some more offers to work with soon....

[mynameismyname]

Which schools would you be happy graduating from? What is the max debt you would consider from each school?

[Archibald]

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Ideally I want to have no debt, and I will take a lower ranked school to do that.. Maybe an exception would be northwestern but definitely not at sticker..