UC Berkeley School of Law C/O 2020 Applicants (2016-2017) Forum

[heyya0909]

When I talked to the financial aid lady at ASW last week, they said emails will be going out sometime this week..... Hopefully we get another wave sometime between today and Friday?

[charles117]

any word on when is the earliest that waitlisters will start hearing news?

[gargleblaster]

When I talked to the financial aid lady at ASW last week, they said emails will be going out sometime this week..... Hopefully we get another wave sometime between today and Friday?

I heard the same info

post more 's in teh meantime

[SupremeLaw]

Have any of you not heard back yet in terms of a decision / under review still?

[charles117]

When I talked to the financial aid lady at ASW last week, they said emails will be going out sometime this week..... Hopefully we get another wave sometime between today and Friday?

I heard the same info

post more 's in teh meantime

[cyclawps]

Looks like BLOS is announced.

[gargleblaster]

GG on scholarships?

[catalina559]

Finally got through to the Fin Aid office and was told scholarships would go out this weekend or early next week.

[gargleblaster]

Finally got through to the Fin Aid office and was told scholarships would go out this weekend or early next week.

[goldenbear2020]

Finally got through to the Fin Aid office and was told scholarships would go out this weekend or early next week.

With their track record of meeting self-imposed deadlines, April it is!

[goldenbear2020]

Got my scholly offer this morning. Decent but not my top T13 offer. Will be requesting reconsideration.

[bigyellowjoint]

Just got an email saying I do not qualify for a need-based Berkeley Law Grant. I thought we would be hearing about merit-based aid? Should I take this as a 0 for merit aid?

[Nacho_Verde]

Just got an email saying I do not qualify for a need-based Berkeley Law Grant. I thought we would be hearing about merit-based aid? Should I take this as a 0 for merit aid?

For what it's worth, I got my merit and need yesterday.

[bigyellowjoint]

Just got an email saying I do not qualify for a need-based Berkeley Law Grant. I thought we would be hearing about merit-based aid? Should I take this as a 0 for merit aid?

For what it's worth, I got my merit and need yesterday.

The only mention of merit aid in my email was that every admitted student is considered and that it is awarded on a rolling basis...

[socalpal]

So anyone hear regarding merit or need based grants? the wait is murder..... looking at outside $$ but not sure how wide to cast my net. first world problems

[nimbus cloud]

Got financial aid today via e-mail. FWIW it was 1/3 of what a higher ranked school had offered me. I withdrew.

[calpolisci2016]

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[cyclawps]

Just got an email saying I do not qualify for a need-based Berkeley Law Grant. I thought we would be hearing about merit-based aid? Should I take this as a 0 for merit aid?

Same situation. Same question. Has anyone received an email saying that you don't qualify for need-based aid and then received notification of merit-based aid?

[heyya0909]

For those of you who received your financial aid email, do you guys mind sharing when you submitted your CSS etc.?

[jdanz]

Has anyone who has submitted a reconsideration request received a response, aside from the automated one?

[SmallK]

Just got an email saying I do not qualify for a need-based Berkeley Law Grant. I thought we would be hearing about merit-based aid? Should I take this as a 0 for merit aid?

Same situation. Same question. Has anyone received an email saying that you don't qualify for need-based aid and then received notification of merit-based aid?

I got the email saying I don't qualify a few weeks ago, and have not heard about merit-based.

[chargers21]

Just got an email saying I do not qualify for a need-based Berkeley Law Grant. I thought we would be hearing about merit-based aid? Should I take this as a 0 for merit aid?

Same situation. Same question. Has anyone received an email saying that you don't qualify for need-based aid and then received notification of merit-based aid?

I got the email saying I don't qualify a few weeks ago, and have not heard about merit-based.

Same here. I assume that since the email specifically mentions merit aid being another source of financing law school that it was implied to be something still on the table

[big_willy_style_333]

Anyone heard back about the Hyundai-Kia scholly?

[bigyellowjoint]

For those of you who received your financial aid email, do you guys mind sharing when you submitted your CSS etc.?

CSS 3/15, FAFSA submitted 3/1, but it may have actually been processed closer to 3/14. I was admitted 2/23.

[bigyellowjoint]

Just got an email saying I do not qualify for a need-based Berkeley Law Grant. I thought we would be hearing about merit-based aid? Should I take this as a 0 for merit aid?

Same situation. Same question. Has anyone received an email saying that you don't qualify for need-based aid and then received notification of merit-based aid?

I got the email saying I don't qualify a few weeks ago, and have not heard about merit-based.

Same here. I assume that since the email specifically mentions merit aid being another source of financing law school that it was implied to be something still on the table

At ASW, IIRC they explained that basically at any given point, the merit aid may be exhausted, but as people decline $$ to go elsewhere, money is freed back up. I'm assuming that right now there is no money available for me, and I'm making plans based on that. But I think they're hesitant to say, "you receive 0" because they may be able to offer it later.

I also have no idea if any of that makes sense.