2014-2015 Yellow Ribbon Program Forum

[ket310]

2014-2015 Yellow Ribbon Program info was published.

In short, in T14, the schools you can attend for free (if you qualify for the number)
School number of recipients - amount school participates
Harvard 50 - $20K
Stanford U - U (U stands for unlimited)
Columbia 20 - $20K
Chicago U - U
NYU U - $20K
Penn 10 - $20K
UVA U - $2.5K
Michigan U - U
Berkeley 5 - $5K
Cornell 10 - U
Duke 25 - $20K

Schools cost less than $10K/yr
Northwestern U - $15K

Schools cost less than $20K/yr
Yale U - $10K
GULC U - $10K

Outside T14 some notable schools you can go for free
UCLA, George Washington, Washington St.Louis, Fordham.


Thank God that I'm gonna receive this two years later. All the other veterans good luck!!! I better get 170+ and attend one of T14s for free!!!

Edited: Duke information edited

[burner]

I saw GWU kicks in 16,500...add that to GI Bill for private school at approx. 20k, it's still about 15k tuition per year...or are you seeing something else?

[ket310]

I saw GWU kicks in 16,500...add that to GI Bill for private school at approx. 20k, it's still about 15k tuition per year...or are you seeing something else?

If school kicks in 16K, VA adds another 16K, thereby covering everything!

[ScottRiqui]

UVA could actually stop participating the Yellow Ribbon program altogether, and it wouldn't make a difference. They give in-state tuition to all veterans attending under the GI Bill, and since the GI Bill covers 100% of in-state tuition & fees, there's nothing left for the Yellow Ribbon Program to cover. Not sure what's going on with Duke, though.

[burner]

I saw GWU kicks in 16,500...add that to GI Bill for private school at approx. 20k, it's still about 15k tuition per year...or are you seeing something else?

If school kicks in 16K, VA adds another 16K, thereby covering everything!

http://www.law.gwu.edu/Admissions/finan ... dance.aspx

Link says here that annual tuition for GW Law is 52k a year...so I think you're still on the hook for 15,500 per year...

[Ricky-Bobby]

I saw GWU kicks in 16,500...add that to GI Bill for private school at approx. 20k, it's still about 15k tuition per year...or are you seeing something else?

If school kicks in 16K, VA adds another 16K, thereby covering everything!

http://www.law.gwu.edu/Admissions/finan ... dance.aspx

Link says here that annual tuition for GW Law is 52k a year...so I think you're still on the hook for 15,500 per year...

GI Bill itself covers almost $20k a year. YRP is on top of the actual GI Bill limits. 20k + 16k + 16k = 52k.

[ket310]

Thanks Ricky.

So GI Bill itself covers near $20K no matter what, and GWU puts 16.5K, and VA adds another 16.5K, so 20K+16.5K+16.5K=53K, which is higher than 52K, thereby covering all tuition. I posted link and actual explanation down there.

Does anyone who is in Duke know what's going on?



http://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/yellow_ribbon.asp

Quote from the website

Degree-granting institutions of higher learning participating in the Post-9/11 GI Bill Yellow Ribbon Program agree to make additional funds available for your education program without an additional charge to your GI Bill entitlement. These institutions voluntarily enter into a Yellow Ribbon Agreement with VA and choose the amount of tuition and fees that will be contributed. VA matches that amount and issues payments directly to the institution.

[USMarineLaw]

Hey all, where are you getting this information regarding Duke? I just looked up the GI Bill VA website and it says the following for 2014-2015:

Name of College Location Degree Level Division or School Number of Students Max School Contribution Amt

Duke University Durham Doctoral Law School 25 $20,000.00

http://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/yello ... tes/nc.asp

I think there's confusion between the degree level "graduate" and "doctoral" with doctoral being J.D. 25 spots is actually an increase from 20 last year. Let me know if I'm off on this, I'll be attending Duke in the fall and would like to know for sure.

edited: link

[ScottRiqui]

Hey all, where are you getting this information regarding Duke? I just looked up the GI Bill VA website and it says the following for 2014-2015:

Name of College Location Degree Level Division or School Number of Students Max School Contribution Amt

Duke University Durham Doctoral Law School 25 $20,000.00

http://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/yello ... tes/nc.asp

I think there's confusion between the degree level "graduate" and "doctoral" with doctoral being J.D. 25 spots is actually an increase from 20 last year. Let me know if I'm off on this, I'll be attending Duke in the fall and would like to know for sure.

edited: link

I think Duke's JD is the "graduate" one. They also offer a JD/PhD, which I would think would be the "doctoral" line on the chart. Of course, the va.gov site might have them wrong.

Duke University Durham Graduate Law School 1 $10,000.00

[ket310]

Hey all, where are you getting this information regarding Duke? I just looked up the GI Bill VA website and it says the following for 2014-2015:

Name of College Location Degree Level Division or School Number of Students Max School Contribution Amt

Duke University Durham Doctoral Law School 25 $20,000.00

http://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/yello ... tes/nc.asp

I think there's confusion between the degree level "graduate" and "doctoral" with doctoral being J.D. 25 spots is actually an increase from 20 last year. Let me know if I'm off on this, I'll be attending Duke in the fall and would like to know for sure.

edited: link

I think Duke's JD is the "graduate" one. They also offer a JD/PhD, which I would think would be the "doctoral" line on the chart. Of course, the va.gov site might have them wrong.

Duke University Durham Graduate Law School 1 $10,000.00

Oh I guess that's possible. I hope it is a website mistake. I was thinking about EDing Duke depending on my score (don't have LSAT score yet)

[ScottRiqui]

Hey all, where are you getting this information regarding Duke? I just looked up the GI Bill VA website and it says the following for 2014-2015:

Name of College Location Degree Level Division or School Number of Students Max School Contribution Amt

Duke University Durham Doctoral Law School 25 $20,000.00

http://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/yello ... tes/nc.asp

I think there's confusion between the degree level "graduate" and "doctoral" with doctoral being J.D. 25 spots is actually an increase from 20 last year. Let me know if I'm off on this, I'll be attending Duke in the fall and would like to know for sure.

edited: link

I think Duke's JD is the "graduate" one. They also offer a JD/PhD, which I would think would be the "doctoral" line on the chart. Of course, the va.gov site might have them wrong.

Duke University Durham Graduate Law School 1 $10,000.00

Oh I guess that's possible. I hope it is a website mistake. I was thinking about EDing Duke depending on my score (don't have LSAT score yet)

Might want to call them to clear up the confusion. Only having one slot for the JD program sounds way low, and having 25 slots for the JD/PhD program sounds excessive.

[USMarineLaw]

I'm enrolled with them already for post 9/11 as an upcoming 1L. When I was asking about YRP benefits, he said (prior to them releasing 2014/15 stats) that it was 20/20k and it wasn't expected to go down. So I highly doubt it went from 20/20k to 1/10k. More likely it went to 25/20k, since the fin aid admin said the number awarded is arbitrary anyways, as they usually only have 5-10 YRP eligible; also he said they've never had to turn anyone away.

That being said, something could have happened. But that was my convo with him as I was discussing my package.

TL;DR: I think the 25/20k is the JD number.

Reference: https://registrar.duke.edu/yellow-ribbon

Note that LLM has 1/10k and JD has 20/20k from last year.

[burner]

Thanks Ricky.

So GI Bill itself covers near $20K no matter what, and GWU puts 16.5K, and VA adds another 16.5K, so 20K+16.5K+16.5K=53K, which is higher than 52K, thereby covering all tuition. I posted link and actual explanation down there.

Does anyone who is in Duke know what's going on?



http://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/yellow_ribbon.asp

Quote from the website

Degree-granting institutions of higher learning participating in the Post-9/11 GI Bill Yellow Ribbon Program agree to make additional funds available for your education program without an additional charge to your GI Bill entitlement. These institutions voluntarily enter into a Yellow Ribbon Agreement with VA and choose the amount of tuition and fees that will be contributed. VA matches that amount and issues payments directly to the institution.

Thanks for the clarification

[ket310]

I'm enrolled with them already for post 9/11 as an upcoming 1L. When I was asking about YRP benefits, he said (prior to them releasing 2014/15 stats) that it was 20/20k and it wasn't expected to go down. So I highly doubt it went from 20/20k to 1/10k. More likely it went to 25/20k, since the fin aid admin said the number awarded is arbitrary anyways, as they usually only have 5-10 YRP eligible; also he said they've never had to turn anyone away.

That being said, something could have happened. But that was my convo with him as I was discussing my package.

TL;DR: I think the 25/20k is the JD number.

Reference: https://registrar.duke.edu/yellow-ribbon

Note that LLM has 1/10k and JD has 20/20k from last year.

You are correct. Clarification on Duke. 1/10K is for LLM and 25/20K is for JD. So one more school that we can attend for free.