Law School Discussion

^^^ Haha.

I've been in this position for undergrad. I got about $400,000 in scholarships, both from W&M and from outside scholarships. I only get back a check each semester for the difference between total expenses (tuition, room and board, , etc.) and the total Cost of Attendance (COA). In general, you cannot get back more than the COA for an institution. (But for me, all the extra money went to my mother back home, so I still have $3.50 in my bank account.)

So what happened to the rest of my money, you ask? It just gets dissolved in the system. No joke.

Sometimes, though, the individual scholarships are made out to you (not the institution), in which case you can cash away.

I was in a similar situation. Don't write a DS unless there's some other aspect of diversity you can / want to show that's not shown in your personal statement. For example, my PS was about how gymnastics was my route of out gangs and all that jazz. Any DS that I did addressed my educational diversity - i.e. philosophy honors thesis and its upcoming oral defense and other such details.

You can go ahead and send in your application. LSAC will forward the letter once they receive / process it and according to each school's update preferences (i.e. some schools accept updates to reports twice a month, once a week, etc.). I would go ahead and send in your application - they won't review it until they have received the minimum number of LORs.