The Soledad ’92 and Robert Hurst Horizon Scholarship Program, which makes the Yale Law School free for its recipients, turns two years old this month. Thanks to the program, seventy-five scholars—one out of eight law students—attends the school tuition-free this year.
“My only job right now is to be a law student, and that is incredibly exciting,” said Daniela Alvarez ’26 JD, one of thirty-three Hurst Horizon scholars in the Class of 2026.
Another is Jack Sollows ’26 JD. “When I received the scholarship, I felt even more elated than when I was admitted to Yale. But more than that, I felt relieved,” he said.
Yale Law School continues to be one of only two law schools in the country to provide financial aid based solely on need. But the Hurst Horizon Scholarship Program has inspired other law schools to follow suit with similar need-based programs of their own, including at Harvard and Stanford.
“If I could have had somebody give me a hand, it would have lifted a huge burden that was on my shoulders,” Soledad Hurst JD ’92 said in a video introducing the program. “It would have meant so much to me to not have debt, to not have had to struggle all the time.”