Is The Scholarship Arms Race Responsible For Shrinking Law School Class Sizes?

Thanks to never-ending funds, elite law schools are winning the war when it comes to filling their seats, while other schools are feeling the 'pain cascade.'

Some of the programs against which we compete are very old and rich programs. We do have some scholarships and financial aid, but not a lot … Schools that are very rich are able to fill their classes with the very best kids, and price is no object for them.

There’s a lot less to go around once you descend from the ethereal heights to the altitudes that most of the law school industry subsists at — where we subsist and a great majority of our competitors subsist. Things are tougher for us. There’s a pain cascade that can be discerned where I live, that my rich competitors only have to read about.

Dan Polsby, dean of George Mason University School of Law, lamenting the fact that there isn’t enough scholarship money to go around to entice the best and brightest to come to his school over others in the Washington, D.C. area.

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