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

LSAT 166 GPA 3.89 2024–25 cycle

Attending University of Notre Dame

…few minutes after admission. Not as much as I wanted. Will negotiate loyola- got admissions email and waiting until 2/26 for financial aid. Will try to negotiate for full tuition Notre dame- got email around 3-4 PM ET. Got scholarship email a few minutes later. Will negotiate with them for higher scholarship USC-…

LSAT 161 GPA 3.30 2022–23 cycle

Attending University of Minnesota

…status checker and then received scholarship via email - negotiated via their admit email - withdrew based on admin issues- DePaul - email - scholarship info was included - was told they would not negotiate and evening does not give out full scholarships Yale - email directing me to status checker Tennessee - email…

LSAT 172 GPA 3.79 2022–23 cycle

Attending Duke University

…weeks later. My one complaint is that Duke’s scholarship negotiation committee was not very open to negotiations, and my financial aid award did not change after requesting reconsideration. **Yale: **March 07, REJECTED - Well, we all saw this coming. I never expected to get into Yale, being below both medians, but…

LSAT 169 GPA 3.30 2020–21 cycle

Admitted to University of Minnesota

I wish I applied to schools earlier and less sporadically. The earlier you get accepted, the more time you have to learn from students and admin & negotiate scholarships. Plus, some schools can take three or four months to get back to you, which leaves little turnaround before deposit deadlines. Aim for finishing…

LSAT 167 GPA 3.74 2020–21 cycle

Attending George Mason University

…Received a pretty low scholarship offer; Tried to negotiate unsuccessfully; Decided this wasn’t worth the extra money over GMU for my goals George Mason: Initially received an offer of $63K (in-state); Negotiated successfully to $66K (in-state), basically a full-ride minus a few hundred; Antitrust/Economic…

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 169 GPA 3.91 2021–22 cycle

Attending University of Southern California

…want to go to them or want to use them for scholarship negotiations. My second and final piece of advise is that this process really is a numbers game (to an extent). There are exceptions for URM or impressive softs, but that’s not the situation for the majority of applicants. Look at your stats twins and see how…

LSAT 170 GPA 3.97 2024–25 cycle

Attending University of California—Berkeley

…but getting into another T14 with money, if only to negotiate with, would’ve opened up my options a bit more. cant complain too much though :))) oh also: ppl on reddit and the other forums bitch and moan about KJDs. i was discouraged from applying in the summer and now i thank god i did apply, because the only work…

LSAT 170 GPA 3.60 2022–23 cycle

Attending University of California—Davis

…(it sucks having to scramble last minute to do visits and negotiate scholarships and look for housing), so still apply early if you can. **Why X’s are an art. **- Schools already know about their clinics, classes, and professors. They do not want to see regurgitated information from their website. They want to know…