Closing Out Your Cycle
How to use LSD.Law's cycle review page to report your final results at each school, log scholarships and timing dates, choose where you're attending, and share advice with future applicants.
A cycle review records the final outcome of your admissions cycle. At /cycle-review, you tag each school with a result, log scholarship amounts and timeline dates, pick where you're matriculating, and write any advice. Fields autosave as you type, there's no submit button, and you can revise anything later.
LSD's dataset is built from reported outcomes. Next year, an applicant with your stats will read your completed review to gauge whether a school is worth the application fee, whether a scholarship offer is competitive, and how long waitlist movement takes. Finishing yours pays it forward.
Results
Tag every school on your list with a final outcome: accepted, waitlisted, rejected, hold (schools still deciding), or withdrew (applications pulled before a decision). Moving a row from waitlist to rejected auto-applies a was waitlisted badge, so a waitlist-then-ding reads differently from a straight rejection.
For readers, this section shows how a profile's list actually resolved — whether someone with your stats got into three of four reaches or one of four targets. A progress tracker at the top of the page shows how many rows are resolved versus still open.
Scholarships
For each acceptance, enter the three-year total of the scholarship offered, capped at $400,000 to keep outliers from skewing aggregates. Check conditional if the award depends on a GPA cutoff or class rank threshold — a meaningful share of students lose those after 1L grades.
Readers use scholarship entries to calibrate their own offers. If a school's reported median is $60,000 but applicants with your LSAT and GPA routinely pull six figures, that's usable leverage. These entries also feed the scholarship calculator.
Dates
Each application has a dates drawer for the timeline: submitted, received, complete, under-review (UR), second round (UR2), interview invite, waitlist, decision. Fill in what you remember; partial timelines still help.
The decision date does not auto-stamp to today. Since you're reporting retroactively, stamping "now" would corrupt the dataset — a March decision logged in June would look like the school took three extra months. Set the real date yourself. These timestamps feed the admissions predictor, heard-back, and the cycle tracker.
Where you're attending
Once any application is marked accepted, an attending panel appears with one radio button per acceptance plus undecided. Pick one school or leave it undecided. If you're taking a gap year, mark deferred on the school you chose — deferred describes matriculation, not an in-progress decision.
This is the highest-stakes field on the review. When an applicant picks School A over School B while holding both acceptances, that's a cross-admit data point. Cross-admits drive the LSD ranking, which reflects which schools applicants actually choose when money, prestige, and fit are all on the table.
Advice
The advice field is a free-form Markdown box on your profile. No template, no prompt — entries range from a two-line "negotiate harder than you think you can" to several paragraphs on LSAT prep, essay strategy, or which schools were responsive to scholarship reconsideration. Readers open completed cycles from applicants who look like them specifically to find this section.
Try it
If your cycle is wrapping up, open /cycle-review and tag the first result. Everything saves as you type, and you can leave and come back as many times as you need to finish.