hi - a few responses to questions directed at me.

rbp: will let you know what i hear back from NYU re deferring. i didn't see that bit in the materials about being able to defer for a year.

mariallm: i got my decision back a few days ago & i'm originally from canada.

my understanding of how the scholarships process works is that they have a short-list of scholarship candidates. they give scholarships and admission offers to the top candidates on that list and give them a quick turn-around time by which to let them know if they will accept. if an individual on that first-cut of scholarship recipients turns down NYU, they go to the next person on their list and send that person an offer for admission & scholarship, giving that second person a deadline for replying whether they accept or not. and so it continues. this is why they don't do a mass acceptance all on the same day -- they have a policy of giving admission offers at the same time as scholarships, which is why you will hear back from early to mid march. so, if you haven't yet heard, that might be better news and perhaps you are somewhere on their list of scholarship potentials.

that's my educated guess about the process, based loosely on conversations with past NYU LLM grads.

hope this helps!

Hi raji20,
thanks for the info here. I was wondering whether one additional thing has to be accounted for when describing the policy of NYU with regard to scholarships. I think that , in fact, they will nto offer scholarhips to anyone who has not applied for Hauser, declaring that NYU would be his/her first choice.It seems like if you ask everyone who has received scholarship on this board had applied for Hauser. Could you give me your take on this? Thanks!

Hi Nail,

My understanding is that if you do not apply for the Hauser, you will be considered for the Grotius and Vanderbilt on the basis of your application (no separate application requirements for these two). If you get a Hauser, you will then be out of consideration for the Grotius and Vanderbilt. These three scholarships are for the regular NYU@NYC program (there are others for applicants to NYU@NUS, but I don't know anything about those). Check out http://www.law.nyu.edu/llmjsd/graduateadmissions/scholarshipprograms/index.htm for more information on the scholarships.

My understanding is that if you apply for the Hauser but are not awarded one, you will still be considered for the Grotius or Vanderbilt Scholarships.

I asked only about Hausers because they are the one scholarship that requires separate application materials.

Raji20, The NYU website says the same thing that you said. Who applies for the Hauser schollarship will be consider for that, everybody will be consider for the Wallace, Grotius and Vanderbilt scholarships.
In the website they say that an offer will be sent to all students to apply for the Wallace scholarship. I don't think the website is right about this one because the Brazilian student received an directly offer for the Wallace and he did not need to apply for that later than his acceptance letter.