"The PLEDGE Scholarship is more than a financial award. It's a promise Santa Clara Law is making to help relieve next year's students from the kind of financial pressure that might otherwise preclude them from pursuing rewarding legal careers of great prominence and purpose. - Dean Michael Kaufman of Santa Clara University School of Law, in a statement concerning the school's new PLEDGE Scholarship, which serves as a means to undercut the annual federal loan cap of $50,000 for professional degree students that became part of the Trump administration's budget bill. Each incoming full-time student at the law school will receive a guaranteed scholarship of $16,000 for each year of their legal studies, which will allow them to cover the rest of their tuition with federal student loans."
""We're not just educating future lawyers; we're building a more just and equitable society," Kaufman said. "This scholarship is a strategic investment in our extraordinary students and the clients and communities they will go on to serve.""
The PLEDGE Scholarship provides a guaranteed $16,000 per year to each incoming full-time student at Santa Clara Law. The award is designed to relieve financial pressure that could otherwise prevent students from pursuing prominent, purposeful legal careers. The scholarship functions as a mechanism to undercut a new $50,000 annual federal loan cap for professional degree students included in the Trump administration's budget bill. By combining the scholarship with federal student loans, students can cover remaining tuition costs despite the loan limit. The initiative emphasizes investment in students and the clients and communities they will serve, aiming to promote justice and equity in legal education and practice.
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