Notes as of 12/30/2021: Submitted all apps in December (mostly the end of December).- WashU Interview invite 12/27/2021. Notes as of 2/2/2022: Accepted to WashU- January 18th! Still waiting to hear back on financial aid. Notes as of 2/28/2022: UC Hastings Acceptance- February 3rd with $75K scholarship. Michigan…
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Admitted to University of Virginia…of my HLS R, I got that after what I thought was a great interview and having already been accepted to SLS, but it still really hurt and threw me threw a loop. Not shocked about my UCLA WL I knew I should’ve sent in a LOCI or applied for Achievement Fellowship, but out of the options I have available I likely…
Go Hoos! Personal statement matters, and your interview matters. Numbers only get you to the interview. If you’re STEM, that’s a big boost wherever you go. Adcoms and employers will assume you’re intelligent and logical, so make sure to have your personality shine when you apply! Also, don’t forget to be real…
UMN UR3: 01/12 UR4: 01/25 UVA UR3: 01/17, Interview on 01/23; UR4 01/23 UR5 01/24 Georgetown Interview: 01/22 Committed to Berkeley originally but got a feeler call from Michigan which was my first choice going into the cycle. I decided to visit the school and set up a campus visit. 3 days later, I got the call!…
…Yale, and Berkeley. I was waitlisted at all 3. My Yale interview was not ideal (asked some tough questions that I felt were really missing the point and focusing on ancient history) but that’s life! On the other hand, my Chicago interview was awesome and I was still WL both placed. I wrote a LOCI for Chicago really…
…Essays 1 and 5 Duke (Accepted 1/30/23, scholarship interview 2/7/23, scholarship notification dated 2/23/23, withdrew 4/24) - Why Duke Northwestern (waitlisted, withdrawn on 1/12/23) - No supplements, did KIRA Georgetown (accepted 10/25/22, scholarship notification 3/8/23, withdrew 3/27/23) - Top 10 (favorite books)…
…I should have wrote them regardless. Especially for Duke. Interviewed at WashU (adcomm), Vandy (alumni), GULC (group), Cornell (KIRA), Northwestern (KIRA). Advice: I think I re-wrote my PS and DS statements over 20 times lol. Create a really strong and cohesive narrative. My PS and DS were on different topics, yet…
…this to help much, but it kept getting referenced in my interviews and was always a good response for the “leadership” question Wrote all the optionals/supplementals Framed “Why” essays by doing one paragraph about why the school is a good personal fit, another about why academically. Also helped me figure out why I…
…list, 1 page resume Stanford: 2 optional essays (books and interview with historical figure), PS, DS, 1 page resume Harvard: just PS and DS, 1 page resume Chicago: PS, DS, Doctoroff essay (admitted to Doctoroff as well), 2 page resume Columbia: PS (with a specific “Why Columbia” paragraph at the end in response to…
…don’t take it personally. It’s far easier to answer an interview question or write an essay if you actually believe what you’re saying. If you can’t muster any sincerity, take that as a sign to carefully consider your course of action. Be consistently polite and friendly when communicating with adcoms. This goes…
…interest HLS - KJ1 off the WL. Decided to withdraw after I interviewed off the WL, I’m set on UVA! UPenn - Core Values NYU - Applied to be considered for RTK without additional essay, received hold tight email on 1/21 UVA - Why UVA Duke - Why Duke, UR3 on 12/6 UMich - Why Michigan, date change on 1/6 Northwestern -…
Went UR3 at University of Pennsylvania on 1/27: for those looking for UR3 data results. NYU HTE in January UVA Interview Invite: did not go UR2 before interview
…optional Did NW Kira UCLA Pragmatic Contribution Why USC Interviews: https://7sage.com/admissions/lesson/law-school-interviews/ - this website was a godsend!!! wasn’t always accurate but really helped get a good idea of what to expect I made sure to have Why Law & Why (x school) down, as well as focused on…
UVA was my top choice pretty much from the beginning. It was hell watching it go UR so many times (SIX) before I got the interview invite, but the interview itself was great and they called me back an hour after we finished with the admit offer. UVA has been an absolutely amazing fit for me and I love it here. Law…
…Essays: -Wrote optional essays whenever given the chance. Interviews: -Actual: UVA, WashU, Vanderbilt. Kira: Cornell, Northwestern, UTexas -Did very little prep, and I think that helped me come off as personable, mature, and authentic, though the Kira interviews were miserable. -Just made sure to have “why law” and…
…to decide between Minnesota and Georgetown until I got the interview invite from UVA, and had such a lovely conversation with my interviewer that I was in the midst of typing out a “I will drop everything and commit to UVA” email when I got the call the next day. All my other schools offered me much more money, but…
…was honestly a dream come true (I almost replied to the interview invite email within 15 seconds) as it was everything I wanted out of a law school. Because I did not get to finish my last two years of undergrad due to Covid and moving home to help my mom after she got sick, I wanted to go to a school that still had…
…stayed on the HLS WL until June and ended up receiving an interview and a feeler offer. However, by this point, I’d already comitted to UVA both literally and in my head. I still wanted the HLS clout, but I couldn’t see myself anywhere but UVA. I have to live with knowing that I turned down HLS, but I think that…
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