Tulsa Law Slices Effective Tuition In Half

Tulsa University law school has announced an automatic $18,000 scholarship for all applicants from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming.  Since current tuition is a bit less than $36,000, that is effectively a 50% cut in tuition for most applicants.  (And we can fairly guess  that all other applicants will be offered a similar package if they ask.)

Comments

[Anon123]

One has to wonder, what are they doing for 2nd and 3 years?

[Barry]

Watching them suffer :)

The obvious question is what is 'good academic standing'? Does it mean not failing, or maintaining a higher level? The obvious thing for them to do is to award the 'scholarships' under conditions which will cause the maximum number to lose them. The second thing would be to increase tuition savagely, so that they end up paying about the same over three years.

[mcampbell]

The Access to Legal Education Scholarship program awards an immediate $18,000 scholarship to all eligible incoming JD students from the 12-state region. The scholarship is renewable each year as long as the student maintains a minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA on a 4.0 scale, the minimum necessary for any student to remain enrolled. This is a good faith effort to address the affordability of law school.

[mcampbell]

The Access to Legal Education Scholarship program awards an immediate $18,000 scholarship to all eligible incoming JD students from the 12-state region. The scholarship is renewable each year as long as the student maintains a minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA on a 4.0 scale, the minimum requirement for any student to remain enrolled. This is a good faith effort to address the affordability of law school.

[BoredJD]

The faculty has adopted the following suggested grading curve for first year courses:
A, A-, B+, B = 30-40%
B-, C+ = 20-35%
C, C-, D+, D, D-, F = 25-40%

http://www.utulsa.edu/academics/colleges/college-of-law/About%20the%20College%20of%20Law/aba-required-disclosures.aspx

Good standing is a 2.0, a C average. It would seem that around 25% of the students could end up losing the scholarship. It would be wise for those students to drop out, although the sunk cost fallacy might kick in. If I was a 2L or 3L I'd be livid right now that I wasn't offered the same deal.