Barbri not negotiating prices? Forum

[90LawSchool]

A little bit of background: I have a judicial clerkship starting after I graduate and am not allowed to accept an offer at a firm until the last month before my clerkship ends. So I am going to have to pay for my bar prep course on my own.

My plan all along had been to take Barbri but I'm a bit daunted at the cost now! I tried to negotiate the price (as I have read and heard of others doing so) but our Barbri rep replied that Barbri is no longer negotiating tuition.

So Question 1: Is this true across the board? Are you hearing similar things from your Barbri rep?

Question 2: she mentioned the loans for Barbri prep. Besides the loans, are there other options?

Thank you in advance!

[Neve]

Barbri does negotiate, but they don't call it "negotiation". They call it tuition assistance and you have to apply for it. It's a simple 1-2 form.

Tuition assistance comes in various amounts - they ended up giving me a thousand dollars off my "locked-in" price when I did it. I have a friend who got more off than that because he held out longer than me after the payment deadline.

[richis7]

Barbri does negotiate, but they don't call it "negotiation". They call it tuition assistance and you have to apply for it. It's a simple 1-2 form.

Tuition assistance comes in various amounts - they ended up giving me a thousand dollars off my "locked-in" price when I did it. I have a friend who got more off than that because he held out longer than me after the payment deadline.

This, plus a little.

Barbri absolutely negotiates. I used the tuition assistance and got $800 off. My friend did the same.

I had another friend enrolled in Kaplan and barbri kept calling him up until the course started offering to price match Kaplan.

I wrote on my "tuition assistance" form a sob story about student loans (as if I'm the only one that has them) and the fact that I trust the barbri method having used their stuff during law school. Apparently they ate it right up, and I found out the same day about the discount. That $800 + the book deposit off and the fact I was close to a barbri live lecture made barbri make sense for me.

I also just found out I passed the NC bar, so I think barbri was effective and worth the money. (PM me if you want details of how much I followed the paced program, etc.)

Good luck. I'm sure you can get them to reduce your tuition.

[90LawSchool]

First off, thank you so much to those who responded. Based on what you told me, I contacted the Barbri rep again and I got this response:

Apparently Barbri is "phasing out" tuition assistance. Now Barbri is offering "payment matching" up to $800--if you pay $800, Barbri will give you a $800 discount.

I guess that is better than nothing but I am interested to hear if this is just my rep or if everyone at Barbri is doing this.

[09042014]

Just get Themis.

[Johann]

baroutlines $50 bucks same shit

[richis7]

Don't talk to your rep. Call Barbri direct and see if you get the same answer.

[MoneyMay]

I procrastinated and didn't sign up for a bar prep company until like 3 weeks before graduation. By that point BarBri was desperate and I got it for half price (couldn't believe it). My advice is to wait because I know they all get desperate and will start slashing prices.

[90LawSchool]

Thank you to all who responded! I met in person with my Barbri rep yesterday and she offered to up the discount to $1500 (basically giving me a public interest scholarship). That brings the price down dramatically but I'm going to see if I can hold out and get anything else.

[sparty99]

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