The Recent Decisions Feed

Every row in the Live Updates feed is one applicant's status change. Reading across, you see the school, the applicant's LSAT and GPA (if they've filled out their profile), any scholarship attached to the decision, the applicant's display name, and a local-time timestamp. A green checkmark next to the name means the applicant has been verified. Clicking the name takes you to their profile unless they've made it private.

The stats column is usually what you care about. Seeing who's getting accepted or rejected at your target school, at what LSAT and GPA, is a faster check on how you stack up than any aggregate median. The left-edge color gives you the result at a glance: green for accepted, red for rejected, yellow for waitlisted, grey for withdrawn. Holds, deferrals, and "attending" updates layer on with a secondary stripe. See the glossary for what each of those statuses means in the broader application flow.

Above the feed is a tally of today's reported decisions by result: accepted, rejected, waitlisted, withdrawn. "Today" runs midnight to midnight Eastern Time, so the counters roll over at the same time regardless of where you're reading from. These are decisions reported today by applicants, not decisions issued today by schools; some people report the day they find out, some wait until they've decided how they feel about it.

New decisions stream in automatically. If you've scrolled down to read older rows, a "N new decisions" button appears at the top so you can jump back up without losing your place. Older rows are grouped by day separators labeled "Today," "Yesterday," or the explicit date.

The feed shows every school. If you only care about the ones you applied to, use the My Schools filter above the Aggregated Decisions table. Click "Filter by school" to open a searchable picker; selected schools become chips that get remembered across visits, so you don't have to reselect them every time. The filter only affects the aggregated table, not the live feed at the top of the page.

The Aggregated Decisions table groups reported decisions from the current cycle by school, result, and date. One row is "N decisions of this type at this school on this date," which makes waves easy to spot. If Michigan released 30 acceptances yesterday, you'll see that as a single row rather than scrolling past 30 individual ones. The school name links to the school profile, and the default sort puts the most recent activity first.

Below that is the Decision Timing chart, which plots weekly decision volume across every ABA school for the current cycle against last cycle's numbers. This is the answer to "am I hearing back later than people did last year?" across every school. For the top 14 specifically, the cycle tracker breaks it out by school and by cycle.

The feed is useful for getting a read on what's active right now: when a school starts releasing a wave, whether the stats on recent acceptances look like yours, how fast things are moving. It's a sample, not a census. It only contains decisions that LSD.Law users chose to report, so absolute counts understate real admissions volume, and the timestamp reflects when the applicant logged the update, not when the school actually sent the decision.

Watching the feed does not change your own outcome. Someone else's acceptance tells you nothing about yours beyond what your stats and the school's medians already do, and a quiet hour at your target school is not evidence that anything is wrong with yours. If you find yourself refreshing every few minutes, the heard back tracker is a calmer view: it shows what share of applicants at each school have received any response at all. The admissions predictor also accounts for decision timing when estimating your remaining odds.