u/FactorSpecialist7193

My top choice law school (Temple) has a reputation for scholarship renegotiation.

However after I asked for reconsideration twice using significantly larger offers from peer schools (Richmond and FSU), they responded saying the incoming class is currently overfilled and that no additional scholarship funds have become available (which, totally fair, l get it. They were completely professional.)

However, they also said they expect some admitted students to withdraw over the summer and that they are unable to determine if any of those students are holding scholarship funds. They also emphasized that they hope I still enroll this fall.

I've already deposited for both deposits, responded professionally, and made it clear I'm still very interested, but financially it's hard to justify paying substantially more than my other options.

For clarity I paid for deposits at all 3 schools

Since then, I've been seeing some withdrawals from Temple on LSD.law, which has me wondering whether scholarship money actually tends to reopen during summer melt, or whether schools mostly just hold firm at that point.
I'm not expecting them to fully match my other offers at this stage, but even a smaller adjustment would materially affect the decision.

It's just hard to not lose hope right now and if I should throw in the towel with Temple

For reference:
Temple would be 190k of debt
University of Richmond would be 130k of debt
FSU would have 110k of debt

As to Why Temple; I really like the opportunities there in clinics and externships and I want to live in Philadelphia

I also just really love the culture

My top choice law school (Temple) has a reputation for scholarship renegotiation. However after I asked for reconsideration twice using significantly larger offers from peer schools (Richmond and FSU), they responded saying the incoming class is currently overfilled and that no additional scholarship funds have become available (which, totally fair, I get it. They were completely professional.)

However, they also said they expect some admitted students to withdraw over the summer and that they are unable to determine if any of those students are holding scholarship funds. They also emphasized that they hope I still enroll this fall.

I’ve already deposited for both deposits, responded professionally, and made it clear I’m still very interested, but financially it’s hard to justify paying substantially more than my other options.

For clarity I paid for deposits at all 3 schools

Since then, I’ve been seeing some withdrawals from Temple on LSD.law, which has me wondering whether scholarship money actually tends to reopen during summer melt, or whether schools mostly just hold firm at that point.

I’m not expecting them to fully match my other offers at this stage, but even a smaller adjustment would materially affect the decision.

It’s just hard to not lose hope right now and if I should throw in the towel with Temple

For reference:

Temple would be 190k of debt

University of Richmond would be 130k of debt

FSU would have 110k of debt

That is total COA

As to Why Temple; I really like the opportunities there in clinics and externships and I want to live in Philadelphia, love the staff, love the professors, etc

Edit: also to be really clear, Richmond admitted me a month and a half after Temple did and I got off of FSU’s waitlist at the beginning of May, thus I didn’t ask for scholarship reconsideration until late

I’m straight for asking but I’m trying to find it and it looks like it got taken down

I’m all for criticizing the NYT’s and their coverage. Hell, I did so earlier this week on this sub by posting an article whose coverage I disagreed with. But now the front page of this subreddit is getting overwhelmed with material that doesn’t have anything to do with the NYT

Can we please institute a rule that posts have to either be NYT articles or be related in someway to the New York Times (articles criticizing the paper in someway, for example)

It is very tiresome