{"id":133633,"date":"2025-09-19T17:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/19\/this-law-school-is-offering-guaranteed-scholarships-to-all-incoming-students-thanks-to-new-student-loan-caps\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:57:50","slug":"this-law-school-is-offering-guaranteed-scholarships-to-all-incoming-students-thanks-to-new-student-loan-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/19\/this-law-school-is-offering-guaranteed-scholarships-to-all-incoming-students-thanks-to-new-student-loan-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"This Law School Is Offering Guaranteed Scholarships To All Incoming Students Thanks To New Student Loan Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The PLEDGE Scholarship is more than a financial award. It\u2019s a promise Santa Clara Law is making to help relieve next year\u2019s students from the kind of financial pressure that might otherwise preclude them from pursuing rewarding legal careers of great prominence and purpose<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Dean Michael Kaufman<\/a> of Santa Clara University School of Law, in a statement concerning the school\u2019s new PLEDGE Scholarship<\/a>, which serves as a means to undercut the annual federal loan cap of $50,000\u00a0for professional degree students that became part of the Trump administration\u2019s budget bill. Each incoming full-time student at the law school will receive a guaranteed scholarship of $16,000<\/a> for each year of their legal studies, which will allow them to cover the rest of their tuition with federal student loans<\/em><\/strong>. \u201cWe\u2019re not just educating future lawyers; we\u2019re building a more just and equitable society,\u201d Kaufman said. \u201cThis scholarship is a strategic investment in our extraordinary students and the clients and communities they will go on to serve.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The PLEDGE Scholarship is more than a financial award. It\u2019s a promise Santa Clara Law is making to help relieve next year\u2019s students from the kind of financial pressure that might otherwise preclude them from pursuing rewarding legal careers of great prominence and purpose<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Dean Michael Kaufman<\/a> of Santa Clara University School of Law, in a statement concerning the school\u2019s new PLEDGE Scholarship<\/a>, which serves as a means to undercut the annual federal loan cap of $50,000\u00a0for professional degree students that became part of the Trump administration\u2019s budget bill. Each incoming full-time student at the law school will receive a guaranteed scholarship of $16,000<\/a> for each year of their legal studies, which will allow them to cover the rest of their tuition with federal student loans<\/em><\/strong>. \u201cWe\u2019re not just educating future lawyers; we\u2019re building a more just and equitable society,\u201d Kaufman said. \u201cThis scholarship is a strategic investment in our extraordinary students and the clients and communities they will go on to serve.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The PLEDGE Scholarship is more than a financial award. It\u2019s a promise Santa Clara Law is making to help relieve next year\u2019s students from the kind of financial pressure that might otherwise preclude them from pursuing rewarding legal careers of great prominence and purpose. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Staci-Zaretsky-TbyurM.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}