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On their websites it seems like that their fee-waivers are only granted based on extreme financial disadvantage, I am just wondering how "extreme" does this have to be? Do you have to be homeless or something to be granted this waiver?

jimmierock wrote:On their websites it seems like that their fee-waivers are only granted based on extreme financial disadvantage, I am just wondering how "extreme" does this have to be? Do you have to be homeless or something to be granted this waiver?

No but you need to demonstrate serious financial need and not just be irked by shelling out $80-$100 per application. I know that Columbia requires LSAC fee waiver approval. I'd say if you qualified for that, you'll get these.

To get the LSAC fee waiver for financial hardship, you have to have no money or resources. Like less than $1k in the bank I think.

Columbia gives out merit based waivers for LSAT though.

Cicero76 wrote:To get the LSAC fee waiver for financial hardship, you have to have no money or resources. Like less than $1k in the bank I think.

Columbia gives out merit based waivers for LSAT though.

Really? Do I just send an email? Their website says extreme circumstances only

jimmierock wrote:

Cicero76 wrote:To get the LSAC fee waiver for financial hardship, you have to have no money or resources. Like less than $1k in the bank I think.

Columbia gives out merit based waivers for LSAT though.

Really? Do I just send an email? Their website says extreme circumstances only

Need based waivers are extreme circumstance. Unless their policy has changed very recently (I.e., this year), Columbia gives out waivers to people with 170s scores. I don't remember if you have to email them or they send them through lsac's service

Cicero76 wrote:To get the LSAC fee waiver for financial hardship, you have to have no money or resources. Like less than $1k in the bank I think.

Columbia gives out merit based waivers for LSAT though.

Even less than that, I had only 300-500 in the bank(not savings) and was denied . Worth applying for though, I suppose

Cicero76 wrote:

jimmierock wrote:

Cicero76 wrote:To get the LSAC fee waiver for financial hardship, you have to have no money or resources. Like less than $1k in the bank I think.

Columbia gives out merit based waivers for LSAT though.

Really? Do I just send an email? Their website says extreme circumstances only

Need based waivers are extreme circumstance. Unless their policy has changed very recently (I.e., this year), Columbia gives out waivers to people with 170s scores. I don't remember if you have to email them or they send them through lsac's service

I got an unsolicited merit-based Columbia fee waiver. I don't remember if it was in my email or if it was one of the hidden ones that I found when I went to pay, but I didn't pay an app fee to them.

That being said, a lot of people solicit merit-based fee waivers for T14s so its worth sending an email.

Appeals to LSAC waivers have a higher success rate than initial requests as a person processes that and not a computer.