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Take the PSAT in October. If you score high enough to qualify for National Merit Semifinalist, then make sure you submit everything required on time in order to be considered for NM Finalist (NMF). Many large public research institutions offer full tuition scholarships to NMF's (Alabama, Arizona State, Texas A&M, Baylor, Oklahoma). Others offer a full ride (Ole Miss, Idaho).If your stats and extracurriculars are Ivy-competitive, you may also want to apply to Duke, UVA, Vanderbilt, UNC-Chapel Hill, and other colleges that offer competitive full ride scholarships based solely on merit.If you're into research, you can shoot for the moon and compete in big science fair competitions. The top three 2016 Intel STS Finalists were awarded $150,000 each.

Yes. There are many factors all pointing towards loosening of the student athlete rules:1.) Athletes already receive full tuition, free housing/meals/etc, and a small stipend. Notably, the NCAA recently allowed a “cost of attendance” increase, which is in practicality just a straight-up cash payment to cover attendance. Schools aren’t required to follow this, but they’re allowed to (and most universities serious about athletics will). This kind of rips apart that “amateurism” argument.2.) The biggest lawsuit about amateurism (filed by Ed O’Bannon, among others), a local judge and a US Court of Appeals found that some NCAA amateurism rules violate antitrust law. In the US justice system, precedent is very powerful - in particular, every lower court in that circuit tends to show extreme deference to rulings made by the higher court, so future lawsuits about amateurism (particularly in California) will be very problematic for the NCAA.3.) The public, fans, and media are no longer on the NCAA’s side. For decades, people in general were more or less OK with the NCAA’s definition of improper benefits. Even as recently as the late 2000’s, the public would often sort of be on the side of fans. However, in the past 3–5 years, opinion has really shifted on this, to the point that most fans, media, and even universities themselves aren’t really on the side of amateurism any more*.4.) State governments have been very aggressive towards the NCAA recently. The NCAA, as a private corporation, is subject to state laws unless there’s a specific federal law that contravenes them. Many state legislatures have made overt threats to the NCAA, usually related to a specific issue that’s currently affecting State University X (current example: Mississippi is discussing passing a law requiring all NCAA investigations involving state universities to end within a few months, due to delays on the investigation of Ole Miss). Thus far, it’s been mostly talk that hasn’t amounted to anything…but in today’s political climate, it’s not hard to envision that a bunch of politicians will try to score easy points with voters by passing a law aimed at “protecting our children from getting exploited by that big evil NCAA corporation in Indianapolis”.5.) The NCAA and universities have gotten a lot richer recently, making them a more lucrative target. Athletes have been getting a raw deal for decades, but couldn’t really do anything because filing lawsuits requires time, energy and a lot of money. It’s only the past decade, really, that the money for football and men’s basketball has really exploded so it became worthwhile for outside law firms to take a chance on litigation.Long term, I personally expect where it ends up is sort of a collegiate version of the NFL. Universities will be limited in how much they can directly pay the players (a’la salary cap) in order to keep the direct costs to universities in line. However, players are free to get outside funds however they want - appear in commercials, sell your likeness to advertisers, even accept a straight up cash payment as long as it’s not coming from the university’s coffers. This would require some sort of organized agreement with players, but seems to be the solution that would work best - universities still get the cost control they want, but players aren’t restricted. You might argue that it’s unfair among players (Hotshot QB gets far more than backup punter), but that’s how it works in virtually every other industry - talent gets the money.Also, as a side note, the question includes a 2014 article about “UConn Player speaks of hungry nights”. Essentially, this policy limited how much and how often schools could provide food for their athletes, under some “equality” thing so that Big Powerhouses didn’t lure athletes with awesome meals that Little Guy U couldn’t afford. Interestingly, this UConn player mentioned this policy during interviews of the national championship game, this policy was relaxed almost immediately thereafter and athletes can now eat at their team facility more or less whenever. A similar thing happened for the first College Football Playoff - Ohio State’s coach (Urban Meyer) called the NCAA out in national media for not letting them pay for families to come watch, then the NCAA suddenly shifted stance when they realized it was a losing issue.*Personal story about amateurism: I was a regular student at Ohio State and was on their football mailing list for several years after graduation. In December 2010, the NCAA was investigating Ohio State for players selling their memorabilia and it was front page news in every sports media outlet in the US. The exact same week the whole thing blew up, I got an official email from Ohio State’s athletics department offering to sell me Terrelle Pryor’s game-worn jersey for $300. Wait, wait, the NCAA is suspending Pryor for selling his own jersey, but it’s totally cool for the university to rip it off his chest and sell it for hundreds of dollars? Yeah, that seems totally logical.Thanks for the A2A.

No way. Too expensive. I would not go to law school today because of the cost of education and decade-long income drought before your education and experience pay off (and for some people 10 years is conservative), compared to when I graduated.Know who you are. Your employment prospects when you graduate affect whether you will have any “lean years,” and if so, how many “lean years.” Do not trust the employment stats of any law school as far as you can throw them. When I graduated, the placement stats were meaningless, and I would bet my left arm that they still are. The mistrust much of society has in the legal profession begins with the educational process. The students are required to make truthful representations in the applications process, with certified and sealed copies of this transcript and that recommendation letter. The schools get to be opaque about the usefulness of your diploma if you get admitted and graduate and rarely face consequences when they have been caught fudging stats. (What if you “fudged” your LSAT score? No school, no matter how dishonest, would tolerate that.) There is nothing morally superior about the school compared to the student applicant. The school is a business and a corporation (or in the case of a state school, a state spoils system), that has a lot of capital and is protected by powerful people, and nothing more. Yet there is this double standard. Know also that the differences between students at schools with varying prestige is not scientific. Some schools have employers throw themselves at every member of their graduating class. Then there are the rest of us. There is nothing wrong with either group. It’s a matter of pedigree and branding and nothing more. This is how the “real world” works. The only mistake you can make is to ignore this reality.The “urban practice trap.” Most lawyers who set up practices or find jobs near urban areas are admitted to the bar for 10 years before they have the experience and confidence to attract their own clients and start to earn the kind of money they saw themselves eventually earning. You won’t stand out (or be able to save much money) if you live in or near an overpriced urban area because you, like many of us, enjoy culture. The debt you incur today going through law school could pay for a home instead. Perhaps more significantly, you can earn your way at $50,000 to $100,000/year doing something else—-anything else—instead of being on the wrong side of a high-debt underpaid 10-year learning curve. There is a significant opportunity cost in addition to debt.Exceptions:Law students on scholarships or with family support to fund what is almost always a six-figure educational debt.Law students earning real income while in school or with savings.Law students with high science and math aptitude, or professional scientific, mathematical or engineering experience can get into IP law, specifically patents, which has always paid very well off the bat.Law students whose parent/s own a firm who will become de facto partners a few years after they graduate, and will likely fully inherit their parent’s practice by middle age. I have never known the offspring of a lawyer parent who works in mom’s/dad’s practice not to be doing very well. I temper this comment with the fact that mileage varies with family dynamic. With an overbearing or wildly successful and driven parent, for example, these “family relationships-plus” can limit your self-confidence, growth as a person, and possibly create a sense of “living in parent’s shadow” or not “measuring up.”Law students of state schools with low tuition, especially those who can live with family. It was a long time ago, but for illustration purposes, my own private law tuition was about $11,000/year for each of two years, plus books, apartment rent, utilities, incidentals and groceries, bringing the annual tab to about $20,000, and I lived cheap in urban Detroit in an unexpectedly safe area near Wayne State. My apartment rent was something like $240.00/month, but I still had to drive 20 minutes to the burbs for a decent grocery store or drugstore. The meats in the bodega a block away did not entice me. I do not recommend this today. I got admitted to a state school for my third year, lived with my family and reduced the outlay to under $6,000.00. Early-1990s, but scale for wild tuition inflation, which bears no relationship to what things in the real world cost. I’m sure my former law school costs up to $60K/year now.Practicing in rural or enclave ethnic community. Law grads of state schools with low debt are especially well-suited to working in an underserved rural community or even in an urban Black, Latino or other ethnic enclave (with the needed language skills), if you are a member. The hourlies are not high, and you will be expected to be involved in the church, clubs and the community (and to have a reputation to match), but your family and you will be appreciated, respected and treated very well, albeit not treated as a native if you lack roots. If you move your practice to rural Mississippi, for example, you better like hunting, fishing or golfing, and figure out whether you are pulling for Ole Miss or Mississippi State.If you disagree and pull the trigger anyway, good luck! I hope many of you prove me wrong.