<p>Thanks. Something to consider.</p>
<p>Thanks. Using “Priority Track” I found the information on the Duke website.</p>
<p>you are welcome. </p>
<p>Good luck to your S.</p>
<p>Good luck to your S!</p>
<p>Thanks. He is is Kenya right now. The packet from Duke Law came to my house with the invitation for him to do “priority Track” with no fee last Friday. </p>
<p>I am going to mention the Why Duke letter suggestion when he returns. He attended the American Dance Festival at Duke twice. Once as a participant student and once as an Intern so I think he can personalize any environment atmosphere comment.</p>
<p>Do these fee waivers only start coming in after you have taken the LSAT? D is taking it October 6. She is registered for LSAT but not the LSAC doc thing yet. $$ is an issue although she/we did not qualify for LSAC waiver. App waivers to the right schools would be so, so helpful - otherwise we’re looking at $1,000 or so that we cannot afford.</p>
<p>I can only report what my son has related to me. He did not apply (or qualify) for the LSAC waiver. He received unsolicited “merit” fee waivers in the mail after he received his LSAT scores from the June 2013 test. I think it was at that point that he figured out that he needed to sign up or consent to releases of his scores. Then the waivers started in earnest.</p>
<p>I may be incorrect on the above details, but I know he did not get the merit waivers (i.e., waivers based on LSAT high scores) until after he got the scores back.</p>
<p>Hope that helps. Good luck for your daughter.</p>
<p>That -regarding to fee waivers - is true for my D last year as well. She also took her LSAT in October and applied after she received her score in early November. In fact, she only finalized her list of schools after her score came in. The timing did not seem to have any adverse implications. Best of luck to your D PhotoOp.</p>
<p>PhotoOp–I think that HYS and Berkeley do not offer merit fee waivers-- period (this is what I have gleaned so it isn’t a guarantee).</p>
<p>My D was on the same schedule as padad’s D. After October scores came in, so did the fee waivers. As long as they have their applications ready to go and in by Thanksgiving they will be included in the “earlier rounds”. She wound up hearing from some schools earlier than their ED applicants did.</p>
<p>ok-- I’d like to take this thread to another issue. What about housing for 1L students? My son has never needed it “fancy” and sure as heck was not interested in paying more than necessary. That will continue for law school.</p>
<p>When I was in law school being near the law school’s library was a huge plus. Has that changed somewhat?</p>
<p>What has been the experience with first year housing? On campus? Off campus? What to do about roommates?</p>
<p>07dad, it likely will depend on what school he ends up attending. For my D and the other law students I’ve known, they were at the point where the thoughts of living in a dorm or with roommates made them cringe. Most who we know/knew got their own place near campus and those who had a roomie, roomed with their significant others. As for being near the law library, it may or may not be important to your son. My D could count on one hand the number of times she used the library during law school. Some kids like working/studying in the library, others don’t. Difficult to predict.</p>
<p>My D lives off campus, sharing a three bd duplex with 2 other 1L. The other side of the duplex houses 3 3L. It is about a 7 min walk to classes and the library. The house was just rennovated. It is spacious and cheaper than the dorm. But as you will find out, admitted students will get lots more useful info during admitted student visits and from others in their class Facebook page.</p>
<p>Is HYS Harvard/Yale/Stanford?</p>
<p>I think my d is planning on being an RA/GA to cover housing. She has always lived in a dorm through undergrad and doesn’t seem to mind. For those in off campus apts - do you mind how I ask how they are paying their rent? Some schools state upfront that they don’t recommend 1L students working.</p>
<p>yes when I said HYS it was to mean Harvard Yale and Stanford.</p>
<p>S was adamant about not living in a dorm. HLS dorms are not the greatest. He ended up living in a school-owned apartment building with a roommate he met at the admitted students weekend. It’s pricey, but he wanted to live close to the school his first year. S did use law library a lot to study( loves libraries, did the same during undergrad). This year S lives in the same building, but with his significant other.
S pays his bills out of his student loans, school considers it part of tuition. Working was impossible during 1L. This year he has a TA position(BSA they are called), it pays.</p>
<p>Seems there is a significant variation in housing arrangements.</p>
<p>There’s also a significant variation in location of law schools, quality of their dorms, relative price of dorms and off-campus housing, and ease of obtaining off-campus housing. There are also issues like transportation (do you need a car? if so, is there a place to park it? do you have a car?). </p>
<p>Rising 1Ls are best off talking to current law students to get a feel for how easy it is to live on or off campus, what the dorms are like, and what the renting situation is like.</p>
<p>One big factor to consider is summer housing. If the student plans to remain in the area for the summer, then an off-campus apartment may make the most sense: he won’t have to move at the end of 1L year, right during Law Review write-on competition. However, if he will be doing his summer position somewhere else, he may end up having to pay rent on an empty place, or, if not living with you, pay double rent. That is really rough, especially as many 1L positions do not pay or pay rather poorly.</p>
<p>ariesathena–all good suggestions and things to consider.</p>
<p>When my son attended the American Dance Festival at Duke one summer he was able to sub-rent the apartment that some Duke Law students had under a 1 year lease.</p>
<p>S and his roomie managed to sublet their apartment for the summer. Both of them were working out of town.</p>