QuackHuskyLemur

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Rank	2024-2025	Result	App type
14	Cornell University	Pending	Unknown
4	Duke University	Pending	Unknown
3	UChicago	Pending	EDearly decision
4	UPennsylvania	Pending	Unknown

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llama

22:04

@RFelixFinch: they may be trying to wait out the cycle spike: https://www.spiveyconsulting.com/blog-post/predicting-the-2024-2025-law-school-application-cycle-early-data/

QuestionableFlamingo

22:15

@RFelixFinch: you’ll get into baylor. All good.

RFelixFinch

22:19

My C&F is actual crimes, so I'm not relaxing until someone says yes haha

RFelixFinch

22:20

But I'm also aware that most schools aren't even reading yet

Dkkm11

22:21

Man that sucks. Society is really sick.

texaslawhopefully

22:32

Holy fuck the massive increase in applicants this cycle is stressing me out

llama

22:32

@texaslawhopefully: SAME

texaslawhopefully

22:34

It is ridiculous. Spivey at least says it'll come down to 10-15 percent up, but that doesn't make me feel any better.

llama

22:35

I truly believe 90% of applicants apply for the wrong reasons and subsequently : do not go, or do not practice after a few years

llama

22:35

and that is coming from a 155

Dkkm11

22:37

Statistically if higher end law schools begin to have no variation in the data of their applicants, then the test itself just becomes insignificant and another to factor needs to be used to determine what makes a candidate a good candidate. I'ma call it at this point, the rest is absolutely retarded and useless at this time. At least anything above a 160 probably.

llama

22:40

many reasons but yes the top schools are maxxing the threshold so that the measuring device (LSAT) is becoming less useful

RFelixFinch

22:42

@Dkkm11: Part of my strategy with my personal statement being about my time as a professional wrestler, and the fact that my essays have a VERY casual human tone is an attempt to differentiate against these high stat folks

Dkkm11

22:43

Yeah, softs are just becoming more and more important.

RFelixFinch

22:54

Now time to find out what tier soft "Crime" is 🤣

Dkkm11

22:56

Honestly man, a lot of attorneys think a lot like criminals which is why they are so good at this shit. I would see having a criminal record as potentially a positive soft. I personally have had 9 traffic violations in my life but I won every single one. Not every one of those was a moving violation though.

Dkkm11

22:56

Some of the best attorneys i worked for would stretch the rules on a regular basis within our little office environment. If you go to bars and you talk to USC/UCLA attorneys, a lot of em are degenrate drug addicsts.

Dkkm11

22:57

You go to wolfsglen and talk to the head bartender there who is a gay guy, he runs a high end sex dungeon at his house and a lot of his clients are attorneys from UCLA's law school.

RFelixFinch

23:02

By the way, creeped your profile. Have you tried Applying to McGeorge? It's in my hometown and it may not be highly ranked and is obviously VERY Regional...but that region is the Capital of California

Dkkm11

23:10

Nah sorry, I just dont wanna go there. If I cant at least get top 50 then I probably wont go to law school.

Dkkm11

23:11

I would rather just keep being a paralegal at that point.

Dkkm11

23:14

I do agree, for local politics it can be really great but I dont wanna be a california republican.

texaslawhopefully

23:15

@Dkkm11: Yeah, it does seem like softs are becoming more important. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does suck in the sense that I think it just is a lot harder to figure out how you'll do based on softs since they're so much less black and white than pure stats.

Dkkm11

23:18

Idk, depends on the soft. I have said before that I think everyone should at least be a a paralegal or clerk or something like that before applying. If you have done that, I really dont see you failing out of law school unless you are just so unbelievably lazy. Maybe if they made another LSAT that tested other skills to go with the LSAT, then I would agree but with just one test to draw stats from, idk about that.

Dkkm11

23:19

Maybe GRE & LSAT candidates should be taken more seriously.

RFelixFinch

23:19

@Dkkm11: You seem to have a VERY solid understanding if McGeorge 🤣. Honestly I don't even have it on my Super Safety list...if I have to go low, I'm going with HOFSTRA only because they have a JD dual degree with a Master's in Forensic Linguistics...and that's only because the Linguistics Program is probably the best in the country for Forensic Linguistics, it's not attached to a high quality school though

texaslawhopefully

23:24

@Dkkm11: Yeah, that is fair, but even then, for instance, I've done paralegal work as an undergrad and it is hard to quantify how much that matters. I think the only softs that are for sure game changing are like Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, etc.

texaslawhopefully

23:25

I mean looking at law school numbers for HLS, from say 10 years ago, it is insane how stats driven it was compared to how black box it seems to be now.

Dkkm11

23:29

Fair points from both of you!

Dkkm11

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