{"id":3296,"date":"2017-07-12T15:19:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T19:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/financial-aid\/how-to-apply\/incoming-including-transferring-jd-students\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:03:21","slug":"incoming-jd-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/financial-aid\/how-to-apply\/incoming-jd-students\/","title":{"rendered":"First Year and Transfer J.D. Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>REVIEW BEFORE STARTING:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Merit Scholarships<\/strong> are managed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/office-of-admissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"cx_external_link\"><span class=\"cx_external_hyperlink\">Office of Admissions<\/span><span class=\"visually_hide\">(This link opens in a new tab)<\/span><span class=\"cx_external_icon\"><\/span><\/a>. Please contact their office for all inquires.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tax Documents for Need-Based Grant Applicants<\/strong> &#8211; Please <strong>DO NOT<\/strong> send tax documents to Georgetown Law at this time, even if CollegeBoard states that you should submit tax documents within your CSS Profile or directly to us. <strong>Tax documents are submitted and received at Step 8.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>*IMPORTANT &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0If you were newly admitted and have an upcoming deposit deadline to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/jd-admissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"cx_external_link\"><span class=\"cx_external_hyperlink\">Office of Admissions<\/span><span class=\"visually_hide\">(This link opens in a new tab)<\/span><span class=\"cx_external_icon\"><\/span><\/a>, please contact <strong>their<\/strong> office at lawhotline@georgetown.edu or (202) 662-9010 to request an extension. Our processing time can take up to 15 business days.<\/li>\n<li>For your convenience, please utilize the checklists below to help guide you through the complete application process.\n<ul>\n<li>Incoming JD Grant Application <strong>Checklist <\/strong>(coming soon)<\/li>\n<li>Incoming JD Loan Only Application <strong>Checklist <\/strong>(coming soon)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REVIEW BEFORE STARTING: Merit Scholarships are managed by the Office of Admissions(This link opens in a new tab). Please contact their office for all inquires. Tax Documents for Need-Based Grant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"parent":3290,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-3296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11013,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3296\/revisions\/11013"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/admissions-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}