The Septimus Notes

Saturday, November 12, 2005

|It's all coming together.|

On the law school discussion forum that I've been reading and posting for the past few months, there have been numerous questions regarding financial aid. In fact, a commonly asked question is, "When can we apply for financial aid? The schools say by March, so can I just apply now? When is the earliest I can file the FAFSA?"

Pardon me, but I was entirely dumbfounded that these people have gone through 4 years of college and maybe some years of grad school and have no idea how financial aid works.

But then I have to remember that LSD is a very self-selecting environment. I would guess that the average stats of those who post (there are many lurkers who never say a word) are in the low-mid 90s percentile-wise of the LSAT. Many of them are kids with 3.7+ GPAs whose resumes already read very impressively. They are the kids whose parents could afford to pay the $1k+ fee for the Kaplan or Testmasters or Powerscore LSAT prep courses.

In other words, of course these kids have no idea how financial aid works -- it was never an issue for them before. A realization that makes me believe all the more in the importance of Affirmative Action (even in its poorly constructed form that is sheltered under the discourse of a half-baked misconception).

promulgated by SWS2.1 at 07:46.
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