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Yes, in a couple weeks ago with good $$.

thedoctor wrote:Yes, in a couple weeks ago with good $$.

Still waiting on my formal admit packet. Out of town for the holidays. So, not sure on money or not. You gonna go? I'm trying to decide between there, boulder, and vanderbilt.

Willpower wrote:

thedoctor wrote:Yes, in a couple weeks ago with good $$.

Still waiting on my formal admit packet. Out of town for the holidays. So, not sure on money or not. You gonna go? I'm trying to decide between there, boulder, and vanderbilt.

That's funny, I am considering all of those same places (amongst others). At this point I am leaning towards taking another offer, however I am still keeping Pepperdine in mind. It is a good school and tuition would be all but covered, and I mean there are certainly far worse places to be geographically, but at this point it isn't a front-runner. I'm having a hard time choosing to be perfectly honest. In the next month or two, when all the offers are on the table, I'm just gonna go through, pick 2 or 3 leaders and take some site-visits. Then I will go from there.

I might have straightaway picked Boulder but their money offer came back a little lower than expected.

thedoctor wrote:

Willpower wrote:

thedoctor wrote:Yes, in a couple weeks ago with good $$.

Still waiting on my formal admit packet. Out of town for the holidays. So, not sure on money or not. You gonna go? I'm trying to decide between there, boulder, and vanderbilt.

That's funny, I am considering all of those same places (amongst others). At this point I am leaning towards taking another offer, however I am still keeping Pepperdine in mind. It is a good school and tuition would be all but covered, and I mean there are certainly far worse places to be geographically, but at this point it isn't a front-runner. I'm having a hard time choosing to be perfectly honest. In the next month or two, when all the offers are on the table, I'm just gonna go through, pick 2 or 3 leaders and take some site-visits. Then I will go from there.

I might have straightaway picked Boulder but their money offer came back a little lower than expected.

Yeah, sort of wondering if I am shooting too low. Every lawyer I ever talk to says that ranking isn't really important. But, none of them went to t14 schools, so its hard to know what to do.

Willpower wrote:

thedoctor wrote:

Willpower wrote:

thedoctor wrote:Yes, in a couple weeks ago with good $$.

Still waiting on my formal admit packet. Out of town for the holidays. So, not sure on money or not. You gonna go? I'm trying to decide between there, boulder, and vanderbilt.

That's funny, I am considering all of those same places (amongst others). At this point I am leaning towards taking another offer, however I am still keeping Pepperdine in mind. It is a good school and tuition would be all but covered, and I mean there are certainly far worse places to be geographically, but at this point it isn't a front-runner. I'm having a hard time choosing to be perfectly honest. In the next month or two, when all the offers are on the table, I'm just gonna go through, pick 2 or 3 leaders and take some site-visits. Then I will go from there.

I might have straightaway picked Boulder but their money offer came back a little lower than expected.

Yeah, sort of wondering if I am shooting too low. Every lawyer I ever talk to says that ranking isn't really important. But, none of them went to t14 schools, so its hard to know what to do.

I've heard mostly the same. T14 if you have particularly large or ambitious goals or if you can get in there with good funding. A good amount of advice I have gotten was that being in the top 10-15 of a somewhat lower ranked Tier1 was better than top 100-150 at a T14 (though not necessarily that is what would happen, but if it did). Also, the merits of minimizing debt has been espoused from everyone I talked to.

I'm in too!
Waiting on some other schools, but this is still one of my top choices.

Admitted with Deans Merit scholarship.

My highest, and only, scholarship to date.

I'm nervous about going to a T2. I also head from lawyers it doesn't matter too much, but none were Big-Law and they work their butts off for normal salaries. Plus, the school is quite conservative.

That being said...90K for law school is unfortunately cheep thee days lol. I wanna see how they rank in 2016 first.

Willpower - you got into Vanderbilt? May I ask your stats (via PM). Not sure if I should apply: 162/3.52

Not in at vandy yet, just confident. Your stats are good enough (better than mine imho). Take a stab.

Xnegd wrote:Admitted with Deans Merit scholarship.

My highest, and only, scholarship to date.

I'm nervous about going to a T2. I also head from lawyers it doesn't matter too much, but none were Big-Law and they work their butts off for normal salaries. Plus, the school is quite conservative.

That being said...90K for law school is unfortunately cheep thee days lol. I wanna see how they rank in 2016 first.

Willpower - you got into Vanderbilt? May I ask your stats (via PM). Not sure if I should apply: 162/3.52

So your scholarship is what? Like 15k/yr?

Xnegd wrote:Admitted with Deans Merit scholarship.

My highest, and only, scholarship to date.

I'm nervous about going to a T2. I also head from lawyers it doesn't matter too much, but none were Big-Law and they work their butts off for normal salaries. Plus, the school is quite conservative.

That being said...90K for law school is unfortunately cheep thee days lol. I wanna see how they rank in 2016 first.

Willpower - you got into Vanderbilt? May I ask your stats (via PM). Not sure if I should apply: 162/3.52

And what do you mean by T2? Anything outside T14?

Willpower wrote:

Xnegd wrote:Admitted with Deans Merit scholarship.

My highest, and only, scholarship to date.

I'm nervous about going to a T2. I also head from lawyers it doesn't matter too much, but none were Big-Law and they work their butts off for normal salaries. Plus, the school is quite conservative.

That being said...90K for law school is unfortunately cheep thee days lol. I wanna see how they rank in 2016 first.

Willpower - you got into Vanderbilt? May I ask your stats (via PM). Not sure if I should apply: 162/3.52

And what do you mean by T2? Anything outside T14?

Heyo, by T2 I mean anything after top 50, so it's close to that, thank goodness.

Re scholarship, yea it was around that.

Xnegd wrote:

Willpower wrote:

Xnegd wrote:Admitted with Deans Merit scholarship.

My highest, and only, scholarship to date.

I'm nervous about going to a T2. I also head from lawyers it doesn't matter too much, but none were Big-Law and they work their butts off for normal salaries. Plus, the school is quite conservative.

That being said...90K for law school is unfortunately cheep thee days lol. I wanna see how they rank in 2016 first.

Willpower - you got into Vanderbilt? May I ask your stats (via PM). Not sure if I should apply: 162/3.52

And what do you mean by T2? Anything outside T14?

Heyo, by T2 I mean anything after top 50, so it's close to that, thank goodness.

Re scholarship, yea it was around that.

Did the scholarship come in the e mail or did you have to wait for it in the mail?

Willpower wrote:

Xnegd wrote:

Willpower wrote:

Xnegd wrote:Admitted with Deans Merit scholarship.

My highest, and only, scholarship to date.

I'm nervous about going to a T2. I also head from lawyers it doesn't matter too much, but none were Big-Law and they work their butts off for normal salaries. Plus, the school is quite conservative.

That being said...90K for law school is unfortunately cheep thee days lol. I wanna see how they rank in 2016 first.

Willpower - you got into Vanderbilt? May I ask your stats (via PM). Not sure if I should apply: 162/3.52

And what do you mean by T2? Anything outside T14?

Heyo, by T2 I mean anything after top 50, so it's close to that, thank goodness.

Re scholarship, yea it was around that.

Did the scholarship come in the e mail or did you have to wait for it in the mail?

Came in my acceptance packet.

Did anyone else get the email about their "faculty scholars award"?
I'm guessing that since they sent that out as a way of letting you know how to get more scholarship money, then that means that you can't negotiate your initial scholarship with them?

LShopeful2016 wrote:Did anyone else get the email about their "faculty scholars award"?
I'm guessing that since they sent that out as a way of letting you know how to get more scholarship money, then that means that you can't negotiate your initial scholarship with them?

I got that e-mail too, good luck!

Has everyone gotten that faculty scholars email? Has anyone gotten it and been denied acceptance? Trying to gauge if it's a good sign or if it means nothing.

I was accepted and got no such message. It's a good sign. It might also mean that you missed your e-mail somehow.

In!

Still no email though. Found out because I've been obsessively checking my statuses.

In, with a pretty great Dean's merit scholarship. Sent in my application for the Faculty Scholars award though. Full tuition and a stipend would pretty much seal the deal.

racb wrote:In, with a pretty great Dean's merit scholarship. Sent in my application for the Faculty Scholars award though. Full tuition and a stipend would pretty much seal the deal.

Congrats!

I'd be wary of the faculty scholars award as it requires you to remain in the top 50% of the class. A tough order the way law school grading works.

ProductofUnreality wrote:

racb wrote:In, with a pretty great Dean's merit scholarship. Sent in my application for the Faculty Scholars award though. Full tuition and a stipend would pretty much seal the deal.

Congrats!

I'd be wary of the faculty scholars award as it requires you to remain in the top 50% of the class. A tough order the way law school grading works.

Yeah, unfortunately even the Dean's Merit scholarship requires that.
https://law.pepperdine.edu/admissions/j ... -merit.htm

racb wrote:

ProductofUnreality wrote:

racb wrote:In, with a pretty great Dean's merit scholarship. Sent in my application for the Faculty Scholars award though. Full tuition and a stipend would pretty much seal the deal.

Congrats!

I'd be wary of the faculty scholars award as it requires you to remain in the top 50% of the class. A tough order the way law school grading works.

Yeah, unfortunately even the Dean's Merit scholarship requires that.
https://law.pepperdine.edu/admissions/j ... -merit.htm

Well in that case it's definitely better to have the faculty scholars award. Best of luck to you!

Question about the faculty scholarship award:
Does anyone know if this scholarship goes to people that have done things like “publishing books or articles, running a business, inventing useful devices, or other similar achievements” (that was taken from the USC Rothman scholarship). Because I know that for USC, those kinds of people are the ones to win that scholarship.
Is this pretty much the same for this faculty scholarship for Pepperdine? Because if it is, then I'm definitely not qualified haha

LShopeful2016 wrote:Question about the faculty scholarship award:
Does anyone know if this scholarship goes to people that have done things like “publishing books or articles, running a business, inventing useful devices, or other similar achievements” (that was taken from the USC Rothman scholarship). Because I know that for USC, those kinds of people are the ones to win that scholarship.
Is this pretty much the same for this faculty scholarship for Pepperdine? Because if it is, then I'm definitely not qualified haha

It didn't say that, but in the letter you're supposed to write your strongest qualification for the award. I guess someone could put that they started a business or got published.