I tried applying last cycle but was way too late in the game and got waitlists and rejects for the most part. Hoping for better luck this time around (and applying way earlier). Retook the LSAT (again). Score progression was: 163 –> 167 –> 171 (wish schools didn’t have to know all of them but whatever) I’m also a…
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Shoot your shot! Application cycles can be unpredictable. Even if you end up at one of your top choices, it can still be a bumpy ride (looking at you, 5 waitlists). At the end of the day, I was lucky enough to get into my top two choices: Chicago and Virginia. Even with the gulf in cost of attendance, it was a…
apply early!! wish i would’ve applied earlier. also don’t hold out hope for waitlists. i held out hope for 2 weeks until classes started and was sad and stressed because of it lol (i would’ve loved u @wayne)
…I would be interested to see if it could get me off the waitlist but I will be withdrawing before I find out. R&R Decision I genuinely do not believe I am prepared for law school. I feel like I can do better next cycle even if it is equal to or more competitive solely from the experience I have gained this cycle.…
…PS on a less competitive year, I think I could make the Waitlist-R an A.
…will start asking what’s happening with X school’s waitlist movement before you’ve even heard their initial decision on your file. Ignore it. Checking this site every day will not make decisions come any faster. Don’t compare your results with your stats twins who applied early in the cycle. They did better. You’ve…
…is strong like mine was. I doubt I would’ve even gotten waitlist offers if anything aside from my bad lsat was less than stellar.
…was a 3.14. I sent in an updated transcript in apr 21 for waitlists
Submitted LSAT addendum to most schools Applied to all schools with a 159 LSAT; retook in April 2021 to try and get off waitlists WL by Villanova on 2/24/21, accepted off WL on 5/3/21
Reapplying to schools that you were waitlisted at is not a bad thing, It actually looks good to reapply
Applied to numerous top 14 schools for the 2020-2021 cycle, and received all R’s aside from Georgetown, who placed me on their preferred waitlist. However, I wasn’t ready to make the financial commitment of relocating from Chicago to Washington, D.C. and removed myself from consideration. This cycle, I decided to…
…back in 2017 with a much worse LSAT and app and was waitlisted, so I thought there was hope. Nope, caught the big fat R. I wrote a pretty strong ‘Why UVA’ (Have ties to UVA), and tailored my statements to UVA since I was a reapplicant. -GULC; This was my #1 choice and I was crushed when I was WL. I did ‘Top 10’,…
pro-tip; withdraw from waitlists before they can reject you
Apply to Iowa early because they have this fun thing called a scholarship waitlist, barely anyone who applied past December got money this cycle.
Wrote “Why X” for Chicago, Penn (core values), Michigan, Berkeley, UVA, NDLS. Included minor “Why X” in Columbia PS. End of cycle! Will stay on all waitlists except WashU but most likely attending either NYU, UVA, or Michigan.
…die-hard Georgia Bulldog fan, I will be riding UGA’s waitlist to the bitter end
…to you. reverse splitters lemme hear ya! Got into GW off waitlist, but total COA would have been 100K more in loans than W&M which I was not comfortable with
LSAT 166 GPA 3.88 2022–23 cycle
Recap: Not expecting any waitlist movement, so 90% chance of an R&R. I would have studied a lot more for the LSAT (wanted a 170, but I settled). My grades also slipped a bit b/c of online classes. Still though, if there is a school you want to go to, I would still apply because otherwise you’ll never know. First gen…
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