Hi PET, what specialization will your Vanderbilt-awarded (full-tuition) friend pursue?

Anyone else admitted to International Tax LL.M. got the "Gerald Wallace" scholarship? When are you planning to claim the award, if planning to do so?

Thanks!

A close friend, to say the least, got accepted (e-mail with a link to a www.law.nyu.edu site with a pdf-file containing information on the scholarship etc) this morning and got the Vanderbilt full-tuition scholarship. My friend is from Europe.

Did anyone get an offer to the business track at NYU ??

In @ NYU on a full tuition Grotius scholarship (e-mail through the Fulbright commission this morning). Have to reply by March 6. No news from the other schools that I have applied to: CLS (regular cycle), HLS and YLS. Thoughts, advice?

just wondering - couldnt you just accept the scholarship and wait for the other universities answer? the worst that can happen (as I see it) is that you lose $ 500 or are there any other possible consequences? (besides it being unfair to other students - but it seems to me NYU provokes this kind of behavior with their deadlines)

I think REM is right, you cannot accept and them reject an offer. It is terrible for the way both Universities are going to look at you; they probably could be able to cut your scholarship, you might going to make others lose an opportunity and you never know the future. If you decide in the future try to do a Doctor Program in the University that you rejected, you will never get a spot there.

REM,

I don't know about NYU, but I understand that in Columbia, the $500 deposit is to "reserve your place in the LLM program", so there should be no problem in paying the deposit and declining the offer later losing the $500.

¿No news about Yale yet?

Ciao

REM,

I don't know about NYU, but I understand that in Columbia, the $500 deposit is to "reserve your place in the LLM program", so there should be no problem in paying the deposit and declining the offer later losing the $500.

¿No news about Yale yet?

Ciao

I agree. It is very common, indeed, to reserve a seat and withdraw at a later date, because of further decisions from other universities. They know other universities' deadlines... That is why they state all the time this is a non-refundable deposit. I don't believe you will be blacklisted or anything similar if you do that...

In sum, I (and the others that have posted above) believe that there are 3 hypothesis:

1) Reserve a seat
2) Accept an offer
3) Accept a scholarship

If you decline, you will suffer no further consequences in hypothesis (1), but you might suffer further consequences if you decline in hypothesis (2) and (3)

This might sound like complete paranoia, but at this stage, what the hell: Is it very absurd to fear that securing a spot/confirming enrollment at one school leads to rejection from other schools since this info on the applicant is passed along? Assuming that the school with the offer you accepted knows the other schools you were applying to (which is the case in some applications).

Thoughts?

REM,

I don't know about NYU, but I understand that in Columbia, the $500 deposit is to "reserve your place in the LLM program", so there should be no problem in paying the deposit and declining the offer later losing the $500

They're all right. The "scholarship" is meant to lock you in and you're thereafter ethically bound to go to that institution (I have my own views on the ethicality of such tactics, particularly because they gear it such that you have to rush rather than make a considered decision by often explicitly telling the students being considered that there is a "limited" pool of funds and it's first-come, first-served, but the school is not applying to enter the Bar, you might be and you therefore need to keep your LLM application process free from ethical quandries).

The schools that ask for a deposit, as far as I'm aware, know the difficulties that students face at the moment, and to that end, such a deposit serves merely as an expression of interest, and you're allowed to decide to go to another school; though of course if you're doing so, you forfeit the full deposit.

Though I can see the problems with such an approach, if I were you, what I might want to do is to gently prod the universities that I'm waiting to hear from asking them whether it would be possible to hear from them before the deadline for the deposit or scholarship decision kicks in.

I saw early that some people were trying to log on to the NYU admitted students website before they had recieved the e-mail. If you can't log on do you think this means you were rejected/waitlisted?

I don't think so. I think they are still making decisions and updating the page as they send out the decisions. If you still can't log, it means they are yet to update the page in regard to your status. It is not yet mid- March, and we all know that NYU accepts a bunch of students, so stop worrying and keep the faith!

The schools that ask for a deposit, as far as I'm aware, know the difficulties that students face at the moment, and to that end, such a deposit serves merely as an expression of interest, and you're allowed to decide to go to another school; though of course if you're doing so, you forfeit the full deposit.

Thanks for clarifying rbp. You're right, my comment was in relation to the deposit policy of most other schools and not in relation to schools that require a deposit AND a withdrawal of all other applications. My apologies for not making this clear and thanks for clarifying (and reminding me that two kinds of deposit mechanisms exists between law schools, one which just requires payment and one which requires payment AND an affirmative obligation to withdraw other applications) :)

I'm in! Just got an email notifying the decision was available in the application website and downloaded it. Nothing about scholarships... :(

same as grugani. i'm in, no $

congratulations grugani & BUG!

congrats both of you
I'm still waiting for an answer.......any kind....but an aswer

I just got in. International Tax. No scholarship.