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Advice applicants left on their LSD.Law profiles, searchable by topic, school, and stats.

LSAT 162 GPA 4.19 2025–26 cycle

Attending Texas A&M University

…email. Scholarship came afterwards. I attempted to negotiate to hopefully match the offer with Texas A&M, however I only got a few thousand dollars more. I am happy that I got another acceptance at a school like Wisconsin, but ultimately had to turn them down over cost. Texas A&M University - Result: Attending. July…

LSAT 167 GPA 3.70 2023–24 cycle

Attending University of Illinois—Urbana Champaign

…kinda weird to not get the full-tuition here. Plan to negotiate. 1/29-2/2 - UNC hold, which feels like a soft WL based on last year’s data. – TAMU WL… – BC WL… – IU negotiation did not work :/ 2/5-2/9 - no decisions, applied for UCI PSS. 2/19-2/23 - OSU A, scholly coming later. 2/26-3/1 - Emory A w/ $$$. 3/4-3/8 -…

LSAT 177 GPA 4.27 2024–25 cycle

Attending Yale University

…for all application fees and all but 10 CAS fees. Did not negotiate with any school since most got back to me after I was happy with other offers.

LSAT 165 GPA 3.65 2022–23 cycle

Attending Northeastern University

…grew. Unfortunately, Northeastern does not do scholarship negotiations. They awarded me an extremely generous scholarship, but it felt weird to consider their schollie over the numerous full tuition offers I had received. I ended up choosing Northeastern in the end though. In the end, I decided I cared a lot more…

LSAT 165 GPA 3.72 2022–23 cycle

Attending University of Denver

Apply early and broadly Ask for fee waivers (many schools will gladly help offset costs if you ask for it, especially if it’s a financial hardship) Negotiate (don’t give up after the first try) - one of my offers went from 70% initial » asked for more and was told there wasn’t money »> then showed 2 other full…

LSAT 164 GPA 3.22 2021–22 cycle

Attending Washington and Lee University

…a cut-throat high turn-over environment. Lots of work with negotiations, contracts, and consulting clients. Had a major life event going into my senior year of college that made me realize I wanted to go to law school. Unfortunately I had not prioritized grades and was focusing on athletics the past 3 years. Grinded…

LSAT 164 GPA 3.20 2023–24 cycle

Admitted to Baylor University

Unsolicited increase from Baylor. Solicited increased from Pittsburgh. Negotiations rejected on all other attempts (Richmond, PSU Dickinson, Temple).