About me.
Certified Teacher. Non Traditional, mixed race background with 5 Years WE. Volunteer work in the community with focuses on low income, food insecurity and immigrants. Additional educational courses with Foreign Language University。 我学中文。

Debt adverse with Public Interest/Government Law Jobs in mind

Timeline
Applied throughout November for the most part.
11/24 OU phone interview. Chill/No Pressure
12/1 Richmond acceptance call. Said the admission packet would arrive in the mail with scholarship offer.
12/8 OU acceptance call. No mention of scholarship/mailer
12/8 Hastings rejection email.
12/8 Richmond acceptance packet came with a Deans Scholarship awarding full tuition coverage for 6 consecutive full time semesters with satisfactory academic progress made (2.00+ GPA)
12/24 OU acceptance packet came. Offered in state tuition as well as and additional $3700 per year merit scholarship. OU was the lowest cost of tuition so I wasnt expecting much in the way of scholarships. Total is amount comes to $46,800.
12/29 ASU email acceptance message from the Dean. Scholarship offer followed via email a few hours later. Offered $60,000 if seat deposit is paid by April 1st but could switch to the “Merit Scholars” if its in by March 1st for the amount of $75,000 in scholarship.
1/8 Texas A&M waitlisted, withdrew
1/19 Tulane WL, withdrew. Sucks. This was one of my top choices but knew even if admitted it was too pricey without $$$.
2/3 SMU status checker notified of acceptance. Call the following day from the admission dept with scholarship email arriving at the same time. Shocked with this acceptance considering SMU’s standing in Texas is so high. Scholarship was $57,000 which only covers 1 full year.
2/12 WL at Arizona through email alert on status change. This school doesnt have a notably diverse student body so I figured it might help boost my stats for admittance. I was wrong.
3/8 accepted to Oregon. Oregon is one of my top choices because of the area and desire to move. Scholarship, $45,000/per year, was renewable/conditional on maintaining a 2.8. Still considering
3/26 UH acceptance email, no scholarship offer at this time. In the email it said it would come later towards the end of April….after deposit deadlines. Withdrew immediately. UH was a mess this cycle.

Cycle is complete. I took the LSAT with UH as my goal school but after more exploration of other universities realized I wasn’t as attached to UH/Houston as initially thought. Top 3 choices this cycle were SMU, UR and Oregon. Attending UR in Richmond, VA.