There may be a lot of lawyers in hell, but there certainly aren’t enough working at nonprofit law firms. Enter Harvard Law School.

Tuition, room, and board for Harvard College students will increase by 3.5 percent to $47,215 for the 2008-2009 school year, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith announced Wednesday.
This increase is the smallest the College has seen in seven years.

The number of applicants to the Georgetown University Law Center fell slightly from last year, leading the admissions office to extend the application deadline more than a month.

Three summers ago, Ethan Olson packed his life into some boxes and evacuated his Slidell, La., home, swearing to himself he’d “never apply anywhere close to home.” Then a rising high school sophomore, Olson settled 100 miles northeast in Mobile, Ala., as his house joined hundreds of thousands of others flooded with water from Lake Pontchartrain.

With America’s richest universities waging a financial aid war, some are concerned that colleges and universities with smaller endowments may not be able to remain competitive.

At $2 a student per academic year, a fund of roughly $82,000 would be used to fund the air travel, tuition, board and a few expenses of five Iraqi students.