How do you earn fellowships or other grants to pay for graduate/law school?

Answer 1

Grad school and law school are very different matters when it comes to awards and support.

In graduate school, academic programs (PhD programs and some MA and MS programs) award fellowships and assistantships to their top candidates. In order to be a top candidate, a student must have great GREs, a solid GPA in the major (or intended field of study), excellent letters of recommendation, a strong writing sample, and a literate and focused personal statement that identifies the student's intended area of focus, demonstrates the student's facility with theory and method, and articulates the student's long-term plans and goals. In addition, the student must demonstrate that she has researched graduate programs adequately, and has identified the appropriate programs with the appropriate faculty for her specific focus.

Law schools have much larger applicant pools, and offer only a very small number of awards. Students applying to law school must also look for awards elsewhere, or bite the bullet and take out loans.

I hope I am not making an unwarranted assumption based on your avatar, but underrepresented minorities, like Native Americans, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, etc. have some additional opportunites for law school funding. First, each law school will offer scholarships and fellowships to top minority candidates. Sometimes these offers are made with admission, and sometimes these offers are extended on the basis of merit after one's first or second year in law school.

Professional organizations like the American Bar Association and the Council on Legal Education, as well as private foundations (like the Earl Warren Legal Training Program) offer competitive scholarships and fellowships to underrepresented minority candidates.

Pre-law advisors and career counselors at your college or university will have all sorts of resources at hand to help you find these foundations.

I wish you every success.

Answer 2

Professor X is right. "Normal" grad schools and law schools have vary different methods of awarding money.

I've never heard of a fellowship to attend law school. Yes, minorities tend to have more scholarships available to them, but you still have to apply and be awarded that scholarship.

Generally, it mainly boils down to you having stats and other attributes so awesome, that the school is throwing money at you to attend and "bless" them with your presence. The more prestigious the school, obviously, the more impressive you'll have to be.

Law schools are ranked in tiers. For most people, if you can get into a first tier school, you can find a school in the lower tiers to offer you scholarships. The top law schools will offer scholarships, but you have to be even more impressive than their already impressive "normal" applicants.

Answer 3

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