Get ready to learn waitlist, buddy. The best thing you can do with an awful UGPA is do well on the LSAT. Find your target school, research what the 75th percentile LSAT is and aim to beat it. Understand that schools may look at your application holistically, but they are still reporting only two metrics to the ABA:…
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…activities that aren’t academic! Write LOCIs when waitlisted if you are serious about attending a school. Wishing you the best of luck! Everything will fall into place. You got this.
…$$ offer. Withdrew 4/14. BU- 1/16 WL. Super quick to waitlist (about 16 days?). Didn’t put much into specifics on why BU. Withdrew from WL. HLS - R 1/29 (no II) YLS - R 1/16 (no II) Cornell - Reserve 1/23, no Kira II, submitted LOCI 1/31 -> R 3/6 Chicago - R 2/19 (no II) Berkeley - WL 2/20, initial email and form…
…I didn’t get into Michigan as a Flint kid. Wild that I was waitlisted at Columbia with a 3.14 GPA. Northwestern is pretty cool, highly recommend.
…applicant from the previous cycle where I was rejected or waitlisted from every school I applied to other than 2 non-ranking schools. My LSAT at the time was a 150. That disappointing cycle motivated me to transform my frustration into motivation to score as high as I could before the start of the current cycle. My…
“we’d like to offer you a spot on our waitlist”
…to get their letter that way Registered to stay on the waitlist 12/20, not strongly intending to send a LOCI though Essays For most schools, I just submitted my general personal statement focused on my experience in mock trial and how it shaped my leadership skills as well as how important music and fine arts have…
Everyone makes it seem like if you aren’t above at least one of the medians, you will be waitlisted or rejected. I’m proof this isn’t the case! Of course ED helps. Probably being a STEM major doesn’t hurt either.
…that I do and go to law school this fall! If I get off a waitlist I’ll update this. Good luck to everyone, be kind and fight for justice!
Always shoot your shot kids. If they rejected you, they aren’t the school you want to attend. Let them miss out. If your top school waitlisted you, get started on those LOCIs. You would make an amazing fit there, they just need a little lawyer-style convincing.
If you are waitlisted at a school (and really want to get in), GO TOUR THAT SCHOOL AND KEEP SENDING LOCIs (without annoying them of course).
Waiting on waitlists
…try to attend, try to get your name out there. Getting waitlisted isn’t the end of the world. Make you LOCI strong by adding personal sentiments on your personal relationship to the school. Do you want to go there because a faculty member really spoke to you, write that. If it’s your top school TELL THEM THAT. They…
I got in off the waitlist eleven days before orientation. I made an appointment with Admissions while waiting and told them, in no uncertain terms, that I would attend if they accepted me. I 100% think that made the difference. “Never give up! Never surrender!” –Commander Peter Quincy Taggart
While it is possible to get into schools with scholarships applying late in the cycle, it will limit your options and provide a lot of waitlists at schools you’d likely be admitted to when applying in the fall. The LSAT is a huge factor and can drag a low GPA up.
…YP (if you look at applicants with my stats, 21/23 were waitlisted). Apply to your top schools LAST, your application gets stronger as you continue to submit.
Accepted all waitlists but put minimal effort in besides SLS who hasn’t taken anyone off as of now
Ball like Kawhi getting waitlisted from your own undergrad is dirty work
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