Law Schools Increasing Incentives to Lure Students - as part of the news series by GeoBeats.
Law schools across the country are feeling the pinch of less students enrolling in classes for their law degree programs. Their solution: offer more scholarships than ever before, be more lenient with applicants than in previous years, and extend the application deadlines for prospective students. Some Universities like the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law are going so far as to “encourag(e) students to negotiate scholarships."
Of course, whether or not they will even look at your application still depends on many factors, including grade point average and Law School Admission Test, or LSAT, scores. But according to the American Bar Association, or ABA, over one billion dollars in scholarships have been given out to law students in the 2011 to 2012 school year. Good thing too, since tuition for law schools has gone up one thousand percent since 1985.
Many schools are desperate for students. The College of Law at the University of Illinois was fined and publicly censured by the ABA for altering LSAT scores and grade point averages of incoming freshman in 2005 and 2007 through 2011.
