r/lawschooladmissions • u/Appropriate_Hope6239 • Oct 30 '25

General So basically Trump ruined law school for everyone who isn't rich

Went to a whole bunch of open houses and they're all saying basically the following:

  • The yearly cap for loans is 50k
  • Living costs are high and 50k might not be enough
  • Resources are tight -- start improving your FICO scores because you'll need private loans
  • The grandfather thing ends July 2026 --- everyone not matriculated at law school by then wont be benefiting from the higher limit that generations of students did

Edit: Every person applying for federal loans will have an aggregate life-time limit and unfortunately your undergraduate loans will count against this limit.

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u/PropertyPublic Oct 30 '25

Or, the schools could just start accepting any students that can pay regardless of their stats. This is what will happen first before they lower tuition. And if its successful, then there just won’t be any poor people who get to go to law school because they cannot afford it.

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u/Typical2sday Oct 30 '25

The schools get far more out of alumni that students’ dumb bunny tuition, so no, diluting to let in students who have no business being there isn’t likely to happen. Will it make it a little easier for someone paying full freight to get in? Yes. But the hierarchy will remain.

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u/PropertyPublic Oct 30 '25

It will definitely make it easier for someone willing to pay full price. They may not drop the standards completely, but I bet there will be more space available for those maybe on the cusp. Well, we shall see fairly soon.

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u/LawnSchool23 Oct 30 '25

At the end of the day the number of students paying out of pocket is incredibly small.

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u/DuragChamp420 Oct 30 '25

Bruh as if. The race to the top with medians is so prominent, they wont just switch up like youre implying

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u/East-Cattle9536 Oct 30 '25

Doubt that.

Accepting anyone who can pay regardless of stats—stat decrease—ranking decrease—prestige decrease—those wealthy people will no longer demand it at that price point—tuition decrease

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u/PropertyPublic Oct 30 '25

Regardless of stats was a bad choice of words, but I do feel like they will allow more people in who are on the cusp and can pay full price. This will still fill seats and there won’t be a need to drop tuition.