Following up on the 100% scholarships given to its inaugural Class of 2012 (which resulted in a Top 20 entering class with 167 LSAT and 3.65 GPA medians, and the nation's best 4% acceptance rate), UC-Irvine announced yesterday that it woukd provide 50% scholarships to the incoming Class of 2013:

"Privately funded scholarships for our second class of students, the Class of 2013, will help us maintain the high quality of our student body and keep us clearly in the realm of a top 20 law school in our second year of operation," said Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. "We are seeking and receiving generous support from the entire Southern California legal community for these scholarships."