Four weeks after I submitted my law school application to NYU Law, my phone rang on silent. I feverishly skimmed the voicemail an hour later. I was admitted to NYU Law, one of the best law schools in the U.S..
Quickly after, they sent me a scholarship letter with 25K of aid a year, which I later negotiated up to 30K.
Yet, three months later, I was only admitted to one other Tier 1 school (Cornell), while all the other schools outright rejected, reserved, or waitlisted me. How, then, did I get into NYU Law (and with substantial aid)?
What got me into NYU Law was a scholarship essay I submitted as a second thought.