…addendum Cornell: PS2, 3, Why Cornell Timeline: 11/1/24: Interview Invite WASHU, Northwestern 11/7/24: Missed interview invite Harvard 11/7/24: ASU Honors FULL RIDE 11/11/24 Fired from Job LOL 11/15/24: Missed NYU wave 1 NU KIRA Complete: Went well (maybe responses too canned?)other than stumbling at the end of the…
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Admitted to Fordham University…after talking with professor and affinity group members. Interview invite off waitlist in mid-May.Georgetown: interviewed October, date disappeared on a Wednesday just within the timeframe Dean Andy gave during group interview. Results: normal wait list, status checker changed to “decision rendered” before email at…
…Scholarship the following week. Michigan Invited to interview for the Darrow- 12/16. Interviewed on 1/16 and got the award one week later on 1/23. NYU Invited to interview for RTK- on 2/7. Withdrew from RTK before the interview because I knew I would take the Darrow/Mordecai/AnBryce over the RTK with its five-year…
…if you’re a veteran/still in the military Be patient Interview advice: Practice live interviews with friends & family Do every optional interview Thank the interviewer for their time Have a few multi-use stories ready to pull Learn to answer in the STAR format Tell stories for as many answers as you can Dress for…
…written why essays for all T20s, minus NU and opted out of interview at NU which I am kicking my self for. Interview WUSTL 11/9, UR immediately after. Highly recommend giving your self enough time to have applications mostly prewritten, and I wish I retook the LSAT at least once. Mentioned very briefly why NYU in…
…beg Dean Andy to let me in. - I got invited to do a Group Interview around 2 days after I submitted my app and interviewed on Nov 6. I got the “exceptional group” speech during the group interview and in the email after. WL email was the “special group within our priority waitlist”. Idk what that means because they…
…For Northwestern, I opted out of the “optional” video interview. DO THE OPTIONAL VIDEO INTERVIEW IF YOU WANT TO GO TO NORTHWESTERN! I also opted not write any LOCIs for schools I was WLed or put on hold at. Decision times Acceptances: NYU: between 6 and 7:30 am W (and one T)UCLA: between 8:30 am and 4 pm (once…
…UCI, and chose it over Northwestern. I then got a waitlist interview request from UCLA Law. During the time in between I had attended the Waitlist webinar (they know if you attended it and mark it down) and had sent 3 LOCIs (1 per month). I did the interview and was accepted off the waitlist. UCLA offered me an…
…Scholarship I also had a media appearance where I was interviewed by a major news outlet in 2021 for something new and cool I had done regarding racial justice. I added this to my resume under a “media appearances” section and provided a link to the article and interview on the resume. This was also the video I used…
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!…
…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…
…a very strong “why vandy” and completed optional alumni interview WASHU: no optional essays; invited to interview almost immediately USC: my dream school! tailored my PS to include “why usc” but did not write optional essay BU: wrote “why bu” UMN: tailored PS to include “why umn” NOTRE DAME: wrote a KILLER “why…
…one was personal and decently researched. Had an alum interview with GULC, no hardball questions, mostly just talked about why law school and why GULC; wasn’t sent the merit aid application form, had to reach out to admissions and ask for it; Did NU Kira, six questions, was cut off while answering the first question…
…-Why Notre Dame -Why UPenn -Also: did the optional interview for Northwestern (update: also did the waitlist interview for Northwestern as well on 3/3/22) Update: submitted LOCI for NYU and NW in late march/early april. Good luck to you if you’re reading this :)
…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…
…and build your narrative around that for your application, interviews, etc. Shoot your shot! Additional timeline info: TAMU went under final review 1/30/25 (did not do optional interview) - also received out-of-state fee waiver for tuition- UVA went UR III 3/21 Additional application info: Did a GPA addendum for all…
…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…
…shaped me, and my plans/goals. With that down, no interviews caused me issues. I also came up with answers that I was very proud of to deeper law-related questions that I wasn’t expecting in interviews. Good luck everyone!! See y’all on the other side :)
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