Practice Management

It is law school acceptance time.  Some of you have choices and you are trying to make a decision based upon the scholarships being offered to you.  Well, Ann Levine at Law School Expert as some critical advice in this regard:

For those of you considering law school scholarship offers right now, please consider (1) whether the scholarship is renewable and (2) what is required of you to renew it. A 3.25 doesn't sound so hard to attain coming out of undergrad; but at some law schools that may be a GPA reached only by the top 20% of the class. If you're choosing a school primarily because of the scholarship then think about how you would feel without that scholarship 2nd and 3rd years. This is especially true if you would try to transfer because if you haven't hit the GPA requirement for your scholarship then you may not be the world's most competitive transfer applicant.

Sometimes I think for most of us the little bit of recognition that a scholarship offers us is too pleasing, but the scholarships offered to you need to be judge based upon what is likely and achievable.  Often a public law school is in the end cheaper than a private law school with what really amounts to a signing bonus of sorts because because of restrictions the scholarship offered is not going to repeat itself.  If you have a choice in law schools, do yourself a favor, and do not judge the scholarship based upon the appreciation you have for the recognition you believe it represents for all of your hard work, and try to determine if it amounts to real money compared to your other choices.