About & Wisdom
backsolving's wisdom
I have 3+ years/4 seasons of experience in the front office of an NBA team in basketball analytics. Through my PS and DS, I tried as hard as I could to boil down the question of my admission to: “Do we want the basketball (analytics) guy?” My humble guess is that doing well in this regard is probably the main reason I “outperformed” my stats. I also wrote every available optional essay and framed them toward my career path in basketball when possible.
After realizing how crazy this admissions cycle was, I almost certainly should have retaken the LSAT since I felt that I could do better and still had time in the application process to do so.
I chose Harvard for two main reasons: 1) size of the school -> more opportunities for exposure to a wide array of people and ideas at the highest levels 2) quality of sports-related opportunities.
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School
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Result
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Scholarship
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Sent
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Received
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Complete
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UR
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Interview
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Decision
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2020–2021 cycle
Oct 01
159d
tracked on LSD.Law
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Rejected | - | Dec 09, 2020 | Dec 11, 2020 | Dec 14, 2020 |
-
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- | Mar 08, 2021 | |
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Accepted, Attending |
$43,740
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Nov 18, 2020 | Nov 19, 2020 | Nov 20, 2020 |
-
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Feb 18, 2021 | Mar 22, 2021 | |
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Accepted, Withdrawn |
$126,435
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Nov 24, 2020 | - | Dec 14, 2020 |
Dec 14, 2020
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- | Apr 07, 2021 | |
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Accepted, Withdrawn |
-
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Nov 18, 2020 | Nov 18, 2020 | Dec 16, 2020 |
Dec 28, 2020
UR2
Jan 26, 2021
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Jan 15, 2021 | Feb 23, 2021 | |
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Accepted, Withdrawn |
$114,000
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Nov 24, 2020 | Nov 24, 2020 | Dec 11, 2020 |
Jan 05, 2021
UR2
Jan 27, 2021
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- | Feb 12, 2021 | |
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Waitlisted, Withdrawn | - | Nov 20, 2020 | - | Nov 30, 2020 |
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- | Apr 26, 2021 | |
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Waitlisted, Withdrawn | - | Nov 18, 2020 | - | Nov 30, 2020 |
Nov 30, 2020
UR2
Jan 28, 2021
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- | Mar 29, 2021 | |
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Accepted, Withdrawn |
$75,000
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Nov 18, 2020 | - | Nov 19, 2020 |
Nov 19, 2020
UR2
Dec 31, 2020
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- | Jan 06, 2021 | |
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Accepted, Withdrawn |
$135,000
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Nov 23, 2020 | - | Dec 06, 2020 |
-
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- | Jan 06, 2021 | |
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Hold, Accepted, Withdrawn |
-
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Nov 24, 2020 | - | Dec 07, 2020 |
Dec 07, 2020
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- | Apr 02, 2021 | |
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PT
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Accepted, Withdrawn |
$114,000
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Nov 24, 2020 | - | - |
-
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- | Dec 05, 2020 | |
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Waitlisted, Withdrawn | - | Nov 18, 2020 | - | Dec 10, 2020 |
-
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- | Mar 03, 2021 | |
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Accepted, Withdrawn |
$120,000
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Nov 24, 2020 | Nov 25, 2020 | Dec 01, 2020 |
Dec 01, 2020
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- | Dec 28, 2020 | |
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Accepted, Withdrawn |
$120,000
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Nov 25, 2020 | - | Dec 02, 2020 |
-
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Jan 12, 2021 | Feb 03, 2021 | |
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Accepted, Withdrawn |
$111,479
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Nov 21, 2020 | - | Nov 25, 2020 |
Nov 25, 2020
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- | Feb 10, 2021 | |
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Accepted, Withdrawn |
$165,000
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Nov 21, 2020 | - | Dec 02, 2020 |
Dec 18, 2020
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- | Jan 08, 2021 | |
| Total Applications: 16 | |||||||||