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I'll try and keep this brief, but I can tell I'm gonna lose sleep over this so would appreciate an answer!

Just sent off my first application, with the intention of sending the others off after, sitting back and quietly praying to God someone accepts me.

Soon as I send it off, at the bottom of the home page on LSAC it has a little red exclamation mark next to it, saying "This school does not need a report." Thank you for letting me know that after I payed $30 or whatever for the report fee. Anyway, that got me worried already coz the red exclamation mark makes it seem bad, but as far as I can tell its on its way to the school nonetheless.

So I go to send the next application away, and they want to charge me $30 for the report fee as well. As far as I understood it, if you've payed for CAS (which I have), you don't pay for these reports? Especially considering it doesn't seem like any of my schools even need the reports? Or is that totally wrong, and do I need to suck it up and pay the $30?

Please help!

You need to pay for each report after you pay the CAS fee. Basically, the $170 is needed in order to have the PRIVILEGE of paying $30 for each report sent to a school.

It's $30 now? Dang.

Rigo wrote:It's $30 now? Dang.

Yeah, it's gone up a few bucks every year.

It's a racket.

benwyatt wrote:

Rigo wrote:It's $30 now? Dang.

Yeah, it's gone up a few bucks every year.

It's a racket.

I especially love the passive aggressive message about applications fees etc being a small consideration compared to actually attending law school when you're applying for a fee waiver. "We know the cost of entry in your desired career path is exorbitantly high, so we decided we wanted a piece of that!"

dumdeedum wrote:

benwyatt wrote:

Rigo wrote:It's $30 now? Dang.

Yeah, it's gone up a few bucks every year.

It's a racket.

I especially love the passive aggressive message about applications fees etc being a small consideration compared to actually attending law school when you're applying for a fee waiver. "We know the cost of entry in your desired career path is exorbitantly high, so we decided we wanted a piece of that!"

And "although we cannot charge you a lump sum of $200,000, we figured that if we charge $30 for every application every one of you sends, we could still make a grand fortune out of it!"

benwyatt wrote:

Rigo wrote:It's $30 now? Dang.

Yeah, it's gone up a few bucks every year.

It's a racket.

+1

I've only applied to law schools that were willing to give a waiver - and it still has cost me a ton of money. If only this was a "qualified education expense"

what schools considers itself above the need to receive a CAS report?

Hand wrote:what schools considers itself above the need to receive a CAS report?

Yeah that's pretty weird and smells like "unaccredited"