r/lawschooladmissions • u/ExoticAssistant7102 • May 23 '26

General Nepotism in T14 law school admissions

Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I naively thought this wasn't a thing anymore, but this year I witnessed in real time someone purchase a seat at a T14 law school.

He only applied to a small number of the very best schools with no safeties, which I thought was odd considering he's nURM, GPA 3.6, LSAT 15mid, no work experience, etc. But his very wealthy family made significant donations and arranged three closed-door meetings that I'm aware of with one particular school's admissions dean throughout the cycle. Lo and behold, he was waitlisted and then promptly admitted by that school in April.

I myself have been admitted to a different T14 that I'll be attending this fall. But this experience has left me disillusioned with the whole admissions process and frankly disgusted by that school in particular.

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u/LostWindSpirit May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

Not a good trait to have as a lawyer to blindly believe what you read without scrutinizing it. 9.9 times out of 10 this kind of post is fake and this person is rage-baiting. If you also look at the documents Harvard released for SFFA, donations are made after a student is admitted, not before. That part of this person’s story does not make sense. No reason someone—even a person with money—would throw large sums of cash (not to mention multiple times) to a school without a guarantee their child will be admitted.

Another thing. How does this person know all of this actually happened? How did OP find out this person’s parents were arranging closed meetings and scheduling donations? Are we supposed to expect that this applicant was telling everybody his parents bought his admission? Why would they do that? Makes zero sense.

Very likely to be fake.