…of your application to get into a top school with a large scholarship (and to get into Harvard). No element of my application, as far as I can tell, would have been the kind of thing to knock an adcom’s socks off. Rather, I spent a good deal of time making sure that each piece was as polished, intentional, and as…
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Admitted to University of MichiganI left notes for some schools: Hover your cursor over the “Result” and “Scholarship” cells. Main takeway: Focus on what you can change. You can’t change what happened in the past. Softs: HYPSM undergrad (with tough course load + GPA addendum), prestigious post-grad fellowship, legal work experience, salient…
…schools that you wouldn’t even think of attending, and use scholarship offers from those schools to progressively leverage your safeties, then your targets, and then (if you’ve gotten in) your reach schools to offer you more money. An app might cost $100 or so, but that’s chump change compared to the thousands, and…
…Nothing extra for application. Applied for Hormel Scholarship and was denied. NYU - Applied to RTK, but used my personal statement as my RTK essay. UPenn - Wrote Core Values Essay. Applied for Toll PI Scholarship and was denied. UVA - Nothing extra. Really considered writing a Why Virginia, but ultimately didn’t.…
I applied so broadly because I wanted to try and negotiate scholarships. Unfortunately the only scholarship I was able to negotiate at all was at GULC. Looking back, I would have just blanketed the T20 + ND and ignored the rest, but I am nonetheless thankful for a successful cycle. GO BLUE!
…when calculating my aid, and I was offered a $150K dean’s scholarship! this was a huge deal for me, especially considering that I wasn’t eligible for any aid at all when I first received my deferral due to my lsat score. truly could not have asked for a better outcome.
…let me reschedule and I ended up getting in with a strong scholarship. That’s definitely where I would’ve ended up (happily) if the Michigan waitlist didn’t come through. So just a reminder that these admissions offices can be forgiving! Don’t panic over any one mistake! I really did a decent job of staying off…
Apply early and broadly and never be afraid to send a scholarship reconsideration email. After strongly considering Berk and Mich, personal life circumstances intervened that made it difficult for me to leave SoCal. Still have no regrets about applying to 20 schools because it gave me a better idea of my worth and a…
…order to apply for Lawyer’s Club housing. I submitted my scholarship reconsideration email on April 18th, and on April 28th recieved an email increasing my award to 40k/year ($120,000 total, ~49.5% tuition). The only competing offer I submitted was $135,000 from USC.
…luck and remember that your stats, acceptances, and your scholarships do not define you as an individual. Don’t spend so much time on this site and/or on Reddit that you forget what is really important.
LSAT 159 GPA 3.89 2024–25 cycle
Attending University of California—Los Angeles
…i applied to, and I ended up receiving 2 T-14 full-tuition scholarships this past cycle let the admissions process be a personal process for you and try not to get caught up in stats/opinions tell your story and give yourself the chance to see what happens! write every optional essay you can don’t give up on…
…save you tens of thousands of dollars in the form of a scholarship. Give the LSAT your all! No matter what your stats are, take your essays very seriously. I wrote every single optional essay and tailored my personal statement to every school. I also worked with an admissions consultant (1 Source Prep) who helped me…
…essays Application timing LSAT I took it once. Scholarship negotiations Decision making
…more successful this cycle than last, with over 8x more in scholarship money and 8 straight acceptances (compared to 0). I think this came down to two factors: **My LSAT performance: **I spent about three months actively studying for the LSAT for the fifth and final time. I took the LSAT in September and due to some…
…that Prometric has it figured out and for waitlist or scholarship reconsideration. A professional career spanning 19 years and additional softs in profile.
…environmental programs. Virginia came in with the lowest scholarship offer of any of my acceptances, and UCLA was just a little too far away from home, so it became a battle between Duke and Michigan. My parents earned graduate degrees at Duke, so I was certainly leaning in that direction, but Michigan just felt…
…F, F, F)Columbia: around 12:45-ISH or around 8:45 am II: F Scholarship Offers: Michigan: around 2 pm or 4 pm F Status dates Fordham- Applied: 09/27 11/9- Current Status: Your Application is Complete. Nothing under decision status or date As of 11/7, no blue box UMich Applied: 09/27 10/13- Status: complete USC…
…Harvard, and UChicago. I didn’t apply for a merit scholarship at Duke after it became clear to me that it wasn’t as good a fit as some of the other schools I applied to.
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