LSAC Report Fee Increase Forum

[gtown2010]

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[Moomoo2u]

Lame. People will probably ask for more fee waivers now.

[freestallion]

You're about to spend over $150,000 on a law degree, yet you're worried about $4 extra dollars per application?

Get your priorities straight.

[Moomoo2u]

it's not about the physical amount of money, it's that they're charging you more for a monopoly they have on applying to LS.

Was there some justification for it, or were they just like oh now you pay moar lol u mad?

[gtown2010]

it's not about the physical amount of money, it's that they're charging you more for a monopoly they have on applying to LS.

+1

[vanwinkle]

LSAC report fee is now $16 per school. Anyone but me think a 33% increase in one year is a bit excessive?

Hooray for statistical selection bias.

Googling around, it appears that the LSDAS fee was $12 at least as early as 2006 (and the fact that my 2-minute search didn't find sooner examples doesn't mean it wasn't $12 before then). So that's $12 in 2006 to $16 in 2011, or a 33% increase in 5+ years. That doesn't sound nearly so excessive.

What if they had gradually raised it in that time? 6% increases each year over 5 years would've led to the same cost today. That doesn't sound so excessive, either.

What about the $80 cost of the app that goes with it? Your total app costs go from $92 to $96. It's only around a 4% increase in your total costs.

Or, to put it another way... It's four dollars. Does spending four dollars more than planned for an $80+ application (which will be followed, in all likelihood, by over $100,000 in debt) really sound so excessive that it's worth putting in red letters and whining about the burden it places on you?

On the other hand, your knack for blatantly leading and loaded questions suggests a bright future for you as a Fox News poll analyst.

[Moomoo2u]

well said, shame on me for buying into it without looking at the facts. I'm still curious as to whether or not there was a justification though.

[Bildungsroman]

What about the $80 cost of the app that goes with it? Your total app costs go from $92 to $96. It's only around a 4% increase in your total costs.

Or, to put it another way... It's four dollars. Does spending four dollars more than planned for an $80+ application (which will be followed, in all likelihood, by over $100,000 in debt) really sound so excessive that it's worth putting in red letters and whining about the burden it places on you?

This is seriously not a compelling line of argument.

[ahduth]

What about the $80 cost of the app that goes with it? Your total app costs go from $92 to $96. It's only around a 4% increase in your total costs.

Or, to put it another way... It's four dollars. Does spending four dollars more than planned for an $80+ application (which will be followed, in all likelihood, by over $100,000 in debt) really sound so excessive that it's worth putting in red letters and whining about the burden it places on you?

This is seriously not a compelling line of argument.

Agreed. These asshats a) take hundreds of thousands of dollars of our money, b) claim 99% of their graduates have 160,000 dollar a year jobs and now c) they're raising the app fee?

I'd have fought back by applying to one less school.