brooktroutmountains '23–'24 app cycle Class of 2027 class year

Shoot your shot.
One T3 (maybe T2) soft, everything else solidly T4. Two years work experience as a Legal Assistant.
I wrote all optional statements for SLS, Berkeley, and GULC, as well as one for Michigan and UCLA.
I only applied to schools I would have considered attending, but there’s some wisdom to applying to T20s here too for scholarship negotiation purposes.
I took a big risk and wrote about a very controversial topic in my PS, which I think led to a lot of the waitlists and the SLS admit. All in all, I wouldn’t change things, but in the middle of February I was definitely regretting it.