Merit Scholarships, Grading Curves & US News as Law School Bait and Switch

Following up on yesterday's post, NY Times: Law Schools Award Merit Scholarships to Recruit Students (and Goose U.S. News Ranking), And Then Take Them Away With Rigid Grading Curves:

• ABA Journal, Bait and Switch? Law Schools Gain in US News with Merit Scholarships Conditioned on High Grades
• Above the Law, Are Law School ‘Merit Scholarships’ A Big Racket?
• CBS MoneyWatch, Beware: Law School Rip-Offs
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Law Schools’ Merit Scholarships May Help Schools More Than Students
• Dorf on Law (Mike Dorf), Rankings, Tuition and the Antitrust Exemption
• Dorf on Law (Lisa McElroy), What Can Law Schools Learn From Student Anger Over Claims of "Bait and Switch"?
• Faculty Lounge (Al Brophy), Student Merit Scholarships
• Faculty Lounge (Dan Filler), Blogging On Law School Financial Aid & The New York Times
• Gawker, Law School Even More of a Ripoff Than Previously Thought
• Inside Higher Ed, Law School Bait and Switch
• Law School Transparency, Proposing a New Standard to Require Scholarship Retention Information
• Legal Profession Blog (Jeff Lipshaw), The Irony of Requiring Meritorious Performance to Maintain a Law School Merit Scholarship
• National Law Journal, Law Schools May be Forced to Disclose Scholarship Retention Rates 
• Nuts & Boalts, Law Students Do NOT Lose the Grant Game as Schools Win
• Volokh Conspiracy (Kenneth Anderson), Law School Merit Scholarships
• Volokh Conspiracy (Kenneth Anderson), What Is Section Stacking? Urban Myth, Apparently
• Volokh Conspiracy (David Bernstein), More on Law School Scholarships
• Volokh Conspiracy (Orin Kerr), The Need for A Standardized Law School Grading Curve
• Volokh Conspiracy (Eugene Volokh), Grading on a Curve
• WSJ Law Blog, Are Law Schools Deceiving Students by Offering Merit Scholarships?