When Is It Appropriate to Start Scholarship Negotiations?
Since you are all going to be lawyers soon, let me start by saying something you’ll be saying for the rest of your lives: it depends. But, that isn’t very helpful...
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Podcast: Interview with Four-Time Olympian & Student Loan Expert Lauryn Williams
In this episode of the Status Check with Spivey, Mike has the opportunity to have a conversation with Lauryn Williams, four-time Olympic athlete and financial advisor with a specialty in student loans.
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Podcast: Advice & Tips for Law School Scholarship Negotiation
In this podcast, Mike Spivey explains how the scholarship negotiation process works from the law school's perspective and gives some advice and tips for how to strategically approach increasing your merit aid offers.
Read full post30 Jul 2020
The Basics of Law School Financial Aid
The financial aid piece is a necessary aspect of law school enrollment and one that benefits you most if you consider it early on in the process, not just at the end.
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Video: Top 5 Scholarship Negotiation Tips
From Spivey Consulting's Derek Meeker, former Dean of Admissions at Penn Law.
Read full post29 Dec 2019
Analyzing and Understanding Conditional Scholarships
One of the most important factors when deciding where to attend law school is an applicant's financial aid package.
Read full post08 Mar 2019
Database of Outside Law School Scholarships
We have compiled a list of outside scholarships available for current and entering law school students. Please feel free to make a copy of the spreadsheet if you would like to sort or edit it. You can find the spreadsheet here. [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ikR3S3UqDeo4Af6MJE7lh6hySJ4E4UkviiE52Wgj34A/edit?usp=sharing]
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The Multiple Deposit Dance
Over the past few years more and more schools have tried a variety of methods to control the arms-race of scholarship negotiation; one way is asking for people to withdraw from all schools to which they have been admitted and to verify that they have done so when depositing. Below is a link to the LSAC Statement of Good Admissions Practices – a good reference this time of year. Note the section on Commitments: http://www.lsac.org/docs/default-source/publications-%28lsac-resources%29/ statemen
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5 Scholarship Negotiation Necessities
As deposit deadlines are nearing, scholarship negotiation season is in full swing. While some law schools are playing hardball (do check back with them after their first deposit deadline), others are playing quite nicely if you have something they want (particularly if it’s an LSAT above last year’s median). We are getting many questions about the most effective means of negotiating — namely, “what else can I do besides present them with another school’s scholarship offer?” We are also hearing h
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Spivey Consulting To Co-Sponsor Scholarship Program Through Writing Competition
THE VIDEO GAME BAR ASSOCIATION LAUNCHES FIRST SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ANNUAL WRITING COMPETITION OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS LOS ANGELES, November 14, 2016 – The Video Game Bar Association (“VGBA”) is pleased to announce its first scholarship program to encourage the pursuit of game and interactive entertainment law. The VGBA Student Writing Competition aims to encourage and reward student interest in the field of interactive entertainment law. Entries will be judged based on writing quality, timeliness o
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