{"id":115540,"date":"2025-04-18T14:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/18\/law-school-cutting-scholarships-for-students-who-dont-commit-fast-enough\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:26:59","slug":"law-school-cutting-scholarships-for-students-who-dont-commit-fast-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/18\/law-school-cutting-scholarships-for-students-who-dont-commit-fast-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Law School Cutting Scholarships For Students Who Don\u2019t Commit Fast Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Applying to law school is bad enough. Throwing your future into the hands of administrators applying bespoke black box methodologies to weigh your life\u2019s work and a 4-hour test. Prospective students shouldn\u2019t have to deal with exploding offers of financial assistance while waiting on a final decision from the 10 other schools on the list.<\/p>\n

An ominous thread on r\/lawschooladmissions<\/a>, suggests that at least one school has started playing games with student finances as a means of controlling its student population.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s a full-tuition scholarship offer reduced to $15,680 less than a week later<\/em>. And, as the quoted passage indicates, the school made this cut based on who hadn\u2019t yet submitted a seat deposit. <\/p>\n

The deposit isn\u2019t even due for three weeks!<\/p>\n

What the school calls \u201can unanticipated level of interest\u201d should properly be called \u201can entirely expected level of interest.\u201d Roughly, oh, 8 years ago<\/em> we went through all this already. That\u2019s when Donald Trump first ascended to the Oval Office and students flocked to law schools to defend the rule of law<\/a>. In retrospect, the assault on the sanctity of the Constitution in 2017 seems quaint by comparison. Say what you will about obstructing justice we weren\u2019t actively disappearing people to slave camps yet<\/em>. Would law schools see another \u201cTrump bump\u201d in applications after November? OBVIOUSLY!<\/a><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s before adding the historical jump in admissions during times of economic uncertainty \u2014 the sort of uptick that might materialize when the White House decides to model its economic policy around replaying the Great Depression\u2019s greatest hits.<\/p>\n

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Every law school should\u2019ve been able to see this coming since right around 11 p.m. Eastern, November 5, 2024.<\/p>\n

Moreover, a school just can\u2019t fire off an email a few days after awarding a scholarship to say, \u201cOopsie.\u201d It undermines trust in the admissions process and can have long-term repercussions, affecting the school\u2019s reputation and its ability to attract top talent in the future.\u200b Remember the black eye one school took for threatening to revoke scholarships if students put down deposits at other schools while going through the process<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are so many better alternatives if a school finds itself a victim of poor planning. For instance, the school could have:\u200b<\/p>\n