Merit Money: Bait and Switch?

[Consolation]

<p>This article from the NYT should be read by everyone considering law school!</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/business/law-school-grants.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/business/law-school-grants.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

[frazzled1]

<p>Wow. Thanks, Consolation, for posting this - as you say, every law school applicant should be aware of it. From the article:

Why would a school offer more scholarships than it planned to renew? The short answer is this: to build the best class that money can buy, and with it, prestige. But these grant programs often succeed at the expense of students, who in many cases figure out the perils of the merit scholarship game far too late.

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<p>If a given law school’s grading system all but insures that only one-third of the students, or fewer, can maintain the GPA required for scholarship renewal, that doesn’t seem like playing fair to me. For students at schools that require GPAs above 3.0, sometimes considerably more so - something new to worry about.</p>