Miami Law Offers Incoming 1Ls $5k Public Interest Scholarship to Defer

The University of Miami Law School has sent a letter to incoming 1Ls offering them a $5,000 public interest scholarship if they defer law school until Fall of 2010.

In the letter, Designate Dean Trish White explains that more accepted candidates took the school up on the offer of admission than was expected, giving them a "larger than optimal first year class"; she also cautions students who are looking to law school as a "safe harbor" where they can hide out from the bad economy to really think harder about the commitment law school entails, noting that the future legal "employment landscape" is "very difficult to predict."

It's so interesting to see a law school dean asking admitted students to reconsider their decision to attend law school isn't it?

If you were planning on attending Miami Law, will you be taking this deal? And if you're headed elsewhere, would you take a similar deal if offered at your school?