Shoot your shot and APPLY EARLY because timing matters (especially for $$)!!! My friends with similar backgrounds, gpa, and higher lsat scores get rejected or waitlisted after applying in January rather than October/November. As long as your score isn’t horrendous, apply with the score you have instead of waiting…
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…own. Managed to get that one A I most wanted before being waitlisted or rejected anywhere, so… I count that as 100% success rate! There’s very little chance I was getting in to the higher ranked schools on my list, but I decided to shoot my shot since BED at Berkeley was far from a sure thing. (When I sent Stanford…
…I thought was a fantastic interview with WashU and was waitlisted several months later (received two HTEs in the meantime, which I appreciated). —Held at NYU in January. —Radio silence from UMN for 6 months and counting. Assuming this will result in a WL at best. Follow-up email sent 3/22/23. Surprised by this A!…
LSAT 177 Int'l GPA Above Average 2022–23 cycle
Attending Washington University in St. Louis
…Cornell, Georgetown (Alumni), WashU, UT, didn’t do NW Waitlist interview (I forgor 💀💀) LOCI: none yet
…dream school could be one you are taking up a spot on the waitlist, when you have no intentions on going there. Help everyone by telling the schools that you are pursing a different option.
…your life on hold while you wait. Decisions, rejections, waitlists, and holds will happen whether you stare at your inbox or not. And law school is right around the corner…save your worries for then!
…was not ideal). However, I’m very proud of my waitlists because applying later allows me to live in the dream that I would have been accepted if I’d applied 4-6 months earlier ;)
Waitlisted at these schools last cycle with the same stats: BC WashU Emory I withdrew from all three in May 2021 and decided to re-apply the next cycle since I committed to my job for another year
Notes and dates for future applicants to promote transparency in this painstaking process :) Harvard 3/18 - Waitlisted 5/1 - Sent LOCI 5/3 - Interview invite 5/8 - Interviewed 5/14 - Feeler call (5:30pm ET) 5/15 - Acceptance call (11:31am ET) UChicago 3/14 - Received initial scholarship award ($30,000). 3/22 -…
…even worth it now. Still holding out on U of AZ for on the waitlist just because it is my dream school. I may apply one more time next cycle.
…officers. A week later, they accepted me off of the waitlist with a scholarship.
…and you didn’t write the optional essay, you will get waitlisted. At the highest-ranked schools that I was accepted to (Vandy/Northwestern/Cornell), I went the extra mile, attended webinars, and did the optional interviews/essays. For the schools that I felt like I didn’t put my all into the applications (NYU/UCLA),…
…$$. 23-24 Apps: NYU - ED - Deferred to RD - Hold 2/6 - Waitlist 4/30 Columbia - RD - Accepted! Got the WL from CLS last year so shocked and pleasantly surprised ATTENDING with 70k grant. Fordham - RD - Accepted with $135k scholarship CUNY - RD - Accepted a couple days after applying Overall thoughts: I’m bummed that…
reapplicant from last cycle. was waitlisted to 12 schools (ranked from penn to american), rejected to two (harvard and fordham), and accepted at lewis & clark with a small scholarship. after talking with current students in public interest they convinced me not to attend. i applied w same gpa but a 164 lsat. retook…
…2/25: email of continued interest 3/14: first LOCI 3/29: waitlist workshop 3/30: second LOCI 4/17: third LOCI 5/2: fourth LOCI 5/24: WL survey 8/21: rejected Duke why Duke 4/17: email of continued interest NU did Kira GULC top 10 1/31: group interview special group within PWL UCLA programmatic contribution 1/30:…
Wrote optional essays for Michigan, Penn, and Stanford (ironically, the schools I didn’t get into lol). I did not write any LOCIs and was rejected from all my waitlists. PS was on my personal growth through taking on a hobby-related challenge. I brought in my legal work experience at the end, but probably could have…
…I would’ve gotten acceptances at most of the schools I was waitlisted at, and possibly stronger financial aid offers, if I applied sooner. For those a year out or more from the application deadline, this might mean beginning studying for the LSAT sooner! I took the LSAT 3 times to achieve my 177 (a total of 7 months…
…LOCIs to Penn, Michigan, or Chicago. I completed the NYU waitlist Kira on 5/17 and sent them a second LOCI on 6/2. I also sent a second LOCI to Columbia on 5/22.- I just want to put on the record that I thought I totally blew it during my NYU wait list Kira by calling their Public Interest Law Center by the wrong…
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