US Law Schools Need Blind to International Students? Forum

[Flippyhop]

Top of the afternoon!

A quick but alarming question: are US law schools need blind?

Long story short, I buggered up and didn't realize there was such a program as Need Access to be applied to before admissions decisions (from Australia). I've just finished interviews with a couple of T14 schools, but am terrified that if I upload the application for Need Access now (which is late for some, but not for others), that this would have some negative impact on the admissions decision.

Even if there were no aid available because it was late for some of the schools, that wouldn't be the end of the world. I'm just not sure if seeing the Need-Access application pop up suddenly will change the adcomm's perspective post-interview. Completely and totally my fault for not realizing NA existed - but I'm hard pressed for what course of action to take.

[Auxilio]

I think they are all need blind, but it doesn't matter--they give barely any need based aid for law school that I cannot imagine it ever making a decision. Law schools are almost all merit based financial aid (even some schools like Columbia who claim a lot of it is need-based oddly award it along merit lines for some reason. . .).

Don't worry about it.