Scholarships are awarded after the start of the school year. Application procedures, deadlines and selection criteria are announced in the law school's newsletter, the Docket . Applicants for this scholarship must file the Needs Access application by the financial aid deadline. The Anonymous WCL Scholarship is awarded on the basis of financial need. The Mary C. Arends Scholarship , in memory of the first director of development for the Washington College of Law, is for a first-year female student who is entering law school after several years in the workplace and who is interested in public interest or public service.
Preference is given to women in the part-time program and to women with children.
The Billinis Family Scholarship is awarded to a student from a middle-income family who has demonstrated financial need. The Centennial Scholarship was established in celebration of WCL's Centennial in 1996. It is awarded to a JD or LLM student with demonstrated need who is in the top 10 percent of his or her class. The Michael Cochran Memorial Scholarship , established by Stephen Cochrane, WCL '72, and his family, is awarded to a WCL student in the clinical program interested in civil litigation. The Grace Markel Daish fund provides tuition assistance for a female law school student.