How are each of the T14 schools with financial aid?

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<p>Since the OP mentioned Berkeley, I checked out their site and did not find scholarship information laid out as clearly as on the UVA site. Their Matching Scholarship program caught my interest, because it formalizes what many law schools apparently do on a regular, though informal, basis: [Berkeley</a> Law - Matching Scholarship](<a href=“http://www.law.berkeley.edu/6957.htm]Berkeley”>http://www.law.berkeley.edu/6957.htm)</p>

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If you are selected for a Matching Scholarship you will be guaranteed a specific level of support that will be stipulated in your offer letter. However, this does not mean that you will receive precisely the same scholarship from us as from the other school. We may not offer you a full match, but might offer you a level of scholarship that we hope will make Berkeley Law an outstanding and affordable choice.

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<p>These are the schools whose offers the program considers matching: Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, NYU, Stanford, Chicago,Michigan, Penn, UVA, Yale. Of the T14 schools, it seems that only Northwestern is missing. I wonder why?</p>

<p>My d starts her 3L year next week. When she went through her admissions cycle, she received several ½ tuition (and more) offers from T14 schools, and an acceptance from 2 top 5 schools, without scholarships. She negotiated for a more generous offer from UVA, her first choice. Her GPA was at the 75th percentile for most of these schools, and LSAT a few points higher. I don’t know how much things may have changed in the past few years.</p>