Do you think you'll read any of the course material? I have access to an older 1L curriculum and am weighing the relative benefits and lack thereof of mastering the material before entering.

Am 95% sure I'll be at Cornell next year.

dekocards: that's difficult. My sense is that Cornell has a better "reputation" but 30k a year is a lot of money. Folks were telling me to take Cornell over Penn or Mich if circumstances allowed, as whatever marginal loss in prestige existed wasn't worth giving up the 75k grant that Cornell ultimately offered me.

Got my aid package 10 days after my letter of acceptance, which in turn came in the mail 4 days after Cornell emailed me the acceptance decision. I've heard divergent reports about this, though, especially for folks who had issues with their financial aid paperwork. As we're a week before the first deposit deadline, it might be worth giving them a call.

JeNeSaisLaw,

I would call Cornell right away about your aid award. From what I understand the aid process is a bit disorganized at first... materials from all applicants sit in a pile, and once an applicant is accepted the admin folks sift through it to find your financial info. When I initially called finaid to verify the completion of my forms they were a little guarded, but have been very helpful since my acceptance, and encouraged me to call with questions. Considering that C makes aid awards for three years, and that their cutoff was the 15th of this month, and that they say aid is hard to procure after the cutoff, I think your best bet is to call them. I got my aid award about a week after acceptance, which may or may not be an abnormality.

Am on LSN... though I haven´t there checked in a while.

GPA: 3.4
LSAT: 161/169 (had the flu the first time... for real... they must have taken the higher score)

I also had some ¨soft¨ factors that might have helped (published a novel, started a business, held two previous law jobs).

Cornell got back to me two weeks ago.

Good luck!

Thanks for this.

Do any sbetter afety schools come to mind? They've all been looking pretty much the same to me.