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I am interested in getting to Law School and need to know what criteria I should fulfill so I can get a scholarship?

Have a high LSAC GPA and LSAT score. It's really that simple.

Yeah pretty much sums it up. There's more things to it to that may aid you. URM status, softs, work experience, etc.

But GPA/LSAT is going to be <90% the deciding factor.

Barack O'Drama wrote:Yeah pretty much sums it up. There's more things to it to that may aid you. URM status, softs, work experience, etc.

But GPA/LSAT is going to be <90% the deciding factor.

Yeah but I mean can you take loans and then get a scholarship or you have to get a scholarship in the first year of registration?

yeah wrote:

Barack O'Drama wrote:Yeah pretty much sums it up. There's more things to it that may aid you. URM status, softs, work experience, etc.

But GPA/LSAT is going to be <90% the deciding factor.

Yeah but I mean can you take loans and then get a scholarship or you have to get a scholarship in the first year of registration?

Yeah you can take out student loans to cover COA and the scholarship amounts just get subtracted from that you can take. For example, just doing some back of the envelope calculations.

Lets say your cost of attendance for your school is $70,000/yr and then you receive a $30,000 a year scholarship. Then you would only be able to borrow $40,000 in federal loans. I believe you can take out $20,000 in Stafford loans and the rest through Grad Plus.

HTH

Usually you're offered any scholarship at the time you're accepted into the school, or at least before you start classes, for all three years. You don't usually get a chance at increasing your scholarship amount once you've started (occasionally people who do really well and threaten to transfer do this, I think, but it's not common).

A. Nony Mouse wrote:Usually you're offered any scholarship at the time you're accepted into the school, or at least before you start classes, for all three years. You don't usually get a chance at increasing your scholarship amount once you've started (occasionally people who do really well and threaten to transfer do this, I think, but it's not common).

I totally misread OPs question. This is TCR 100%

There are external scholarships that you can apply to as a rising 2L or 3L, but I would not count on getting them. They are very competitive and often require that you be "diverse."

LSAT/ GPA score

Apply as early as possible.

Be realistic about 'conditional' scholarships

Learn how to leverage scholarship offers.

Do not be afraid to hold out another year.


This is my approach this upcoming cycle.

landshoes wrote:There are external scholarships that you can apply to as a rising 2L or 3L, but I would not count on getting them. They are very competitive and often require that you be "diverse."

and frankly fairly nominal especially compared to what you stand to gain with school-granted gpa/lsat scholly's.

pancakes3 wrote:

landshoes wrote:There are external scholarships that you can apply to as a rising 2L or 3L, but I would not count on getting them. They are very competitive and often require that you be "diverse."

and frankly fairly nominal especially compared to what you stand to gain with school-granted gpa/lsat scholly's.

It depends, some of them include a 1L SA and 10-20k worth of scholarship. That's not amazing but it's nothing to sneeze at.

Certainly not something I'd go into law school expecting to get, at all, but usually worth applying for if you're qualified.

Anyway, not sure if this is relevant to OP