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Exercise 3 – Award a Scholarship LLM

Task: Award a Scholarship

Scenario: Full Time LLM applicants are eligible for the Commonwealth scholarship of $22,000 for one year. This year it will be awarded to two people.

If you’d like to try the exercise on your own without detailed instructions, feel free to do so. If not, detailed instructions follow.   

Guided Practice

This training exercise has two parts. The first part walks you through how to find the applications. The second part walks you through how to add the scholarship.

Part 1: Organize the grid

  1. Click REVIEWS.

  2. Verify you are on the All Decisions tab.

  3. Organize the grid by specifying the columns.

    • Application Type column: Hide

    • Cumulative GPA column: Hide

    • Degree column: Show

    • High LSAT Index column: Hide

    • High LSAT Score column: Hide

  4. Click Save.

  5. Continue organizing the grid.

    • NOTE: When you filter a column, there are steps that are not documented in the exercise, to include: choosing the filter to use, selecting or entering data to filter on, and clicking Filter to apply the changes.

    • Status column: Filter to include only Admitted

    • Sub-Status column: Filter to exclude Deferred and Withdraw

    • Degree column: Filter to include LLM

    • Last Name, First column: Filter to contain your Greek letter.

Part 2: Update Scholarship

  1. From the grid, select two (2) people containing your Greek letter.

  2. Click Actions.

  3. Select Edit.

  4. Be sure to choose Apply the same edit to each selection.

  5. Click Continue.

  6. From Available Fields, select Scholarship.

  7. Click Add.

  8. Click Continue.

  9. Select Scholarship Type - Commonwealth.

  10. Select Granted Date - TODAY.

  11. Select Year (use the current year).

  12. Enter Scholarship Amount - $22,000.

  13. Click Submit.

  14. Verify your changes.

  15. Click Confirm.