Should i register for crs

Schools are locked into their CRS system to look for candidates, so they can't be bothered to manually review my waiver eligibility, and LSAC has nothing to gain from helping me. Post by » Fri Aug 06, pm.. Most of the replies I've received were copied and pasted versions of "merit-based waivers are offered to worthy applicants in our CRS searches LSAC is the one to blame here, unfortunately they don't seem to care. I didn't put this up only to vent frustration- make sure you don't register for CRS until the application year you will apply!

Post by Nom Sawyer » Fri Aug 06, pm Past September if you email schools they are a lot more likely to give you fee waivers. I emailed a bunch of the T14 schools at that point since I had only gotten some CRS waivers and almost half of them gave me a fee waiver through email.

Duke also gave me PT when I emailed them to request it. Post by Nom Sawyer » Fri Aug 06, pm acrossthelake wrote: Nom Sawyer wrote: Past September if you email schools they are a lot more likely to give you fee waivers.

I dunno why, but I hardly got any waivers as a result of CRS, but I paid for apps at less than half of the schools I appleid to. In all likelihood, if you've got the numbers and they do waivers, they'll give it to you either way. Also, why is "LSAC the one to blame"? They are just upholding their policy.

I don't see anything wrong with what they're doing. A lot of my fee waivers were "hidden. Post by romothesavior » Fri Aug 06, pm Again, the vast majority of fee waivers come from asking for them, not from CRS. I honestly don't think any of my fee waivers were from CRS. I remember thinking, "Why is everyone getting fee waivers mailed to them but not me?

Also, why not re-register for CRS? And why are you doing this now? Most applications are not even out yet. Once they start going out, I'd imagine schools will be willing to give you one. In fact, nearly half of U. In , there were ABA-approved law schools, and 91 of them did not charge a fee to apply. So, if law schools need the money, why would they waive your application fee? Simply put, they need applicants, too.

As the total number of applicants decreased throughout the mids, schools started handing out more and more fee waivers, and even though the total number of applicants has leveled off and started to increase over the past two cycles, schools are still offering fee waivers. CRS is a database that law schools can query to contact potential applicants. This year, the purge took place on June 3, We especially recommend that re-applicants, applicants who sat for the LSAT but waited a year before applying, and anyone who did not previously opt in to CRS be sure to check their status.

If you just sat for the LSAT and are awaiting your score, then sit tight for now. It is common for schools to put together complicated queries that consider multiple characteristics in addition to the numbers.

Make sure that information is up to date, but law schools almost always want to know your LSAT and GPA, too, before they will give you a fee waiver.

Finally, wait for fee waiver emails to roll in. If you want to apply on the first day that the application opens, then you might have to choose between applying immediately or waiting a week or two into September for the fee waiver process to kick in.

Now, we will address a few questions applicants may have about unsolicited merit-based fee waivers:. If I receive a merit-based fee waiver, does that mean that I will definitely be admitted? No, not definitely, by any means. Schools want to read your personal statement, optional essays, letters of recommendation, etc. Is the school trying to scam me into applying just so that they can reject me and inflate their selectivity? Probably not.

It is true that the whole point of sending out fee waivers is to increase the pool of applicants. What they want are enrolled students who pay tuition, so a large applicant pool is mostly just a means to that end.