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Advice applicants left on their LSD.Law profiles, searchable by topic, school, and stats.

LSAT 161 GPA 3.98 2023–24 cycle

Attending University of California—Los Angeles

…to most schools on February 15 Toured GULC and BU post waitlist and emailed about it GULC preferred waitlist; feeler email May 30 Sent LOCI immediately for all waitlisted schools excepted UVA, Richmond, and Temple NYU hold February 6; WL April 29 Feeler email from Northwestern on July 31; accepted August 1 Public…

LSAT 168 GPA 3.83 2024–25 cycle

Attending Emory University

…re-evaluate my file and that I would receive a decision of waitlist, deny, or admit by March 17. I was sent an email in the late afternoon of March 17 inviting me to join UGA’s waitlist (which you automatically join). “Decision” indicates being waitlisted. Northeastern: “UR” as February 19 is not accurate; it was…

LSAT 172 GPA 3.80 2023–24 cycle

Attending University of Michigan

…Fellowship + Programmatic Contribution UNC:- Why UNC **WAITLISTS: ** Cornell interview invite March 12- Michigan feeler call May 6 I played the waitlist game. I sent LOCIs to Duke, Penn, UVA (in the feeler form), Berkeley (in the feeler form), Cornell, and Vandy. Cornell received LOCIs from me after both of their…

LSAT 164 GPA 4.13 2024–25 cycle

Attending University of Michigan

dreams come true! I was waitlisted by michigan last month (february 2025), and this month I requested a deferral to enroll as a student of next year’s class (see michigan waitlist faq). about three business days later, my request was approved! if you can afford to be flexible and you have a good reason to wait…

LSAT 161 GPA 3.44 2024–25 cycle

Attending Northeastern University

…to pay 8/19 update; Temple, UMD, UCSF, and St. Johns sent waitlist release emails after their orientation I did not fill out feeler form for Loyola (sent out 6/9) I did not attend the waitlist webinar for Temple (sent out May 28)

LSAT 159 GPA 3.86 2025–26 cycle

Attending (Part-time) Syracuse University

My T2 softs have to do with disability, ethnic background, and speaking a language with ~50-100 speakers as part of a revival project. I was waitlisted at every T20-T30-T40 I applied to… then somehow rejected by two T60s.

LSAT 166 GPA 4.00 2025–26 cycle

Admitted to Washington University in St. Louis

Before you begin the process, write down WHY you want to go to law school. It was more difficult than I originally imagined to wait, get waitlisted, get scholarships, get not enough scholarship money, go to Admitted Student Days, etc. etc. But when it finally came time to make the ultimate decision, I put away my…

LSAT 180 GPA 3.95 2023–24 cycle

Attending University of California—Berkeley

…1 pm FColumbia: 1:26 pm Th (at least most recent time) Waitlists: GULC: around 1:45 pm FBerkeley: around 7:30 am or at 5 pm (sometimes same time as Rs, sometimes not) (in status checker) UCLA: around 12:15 or around 3 pm or 5 pm UT: around 3 pm ish or 4 pm ish, same time as Rs (email) (around 3 pm) Th for sure and F…

LSAT 162 GPA 3.60 2021–22 cycle

Attending Loyola University—Chicago

Waitlisted at these schools last cycle with the same stats: BC WashU Emory I withdrew from all three in May 2021 and decided to re-apply the next cycle since I committed to my job for another year

LSAT 170 GPA 3.62 2022–23 cycle

Attending University of Minnesota

reapplicant from last cycle. was waitlisted to 12 schools (ranked from penn to american), rejected to two (harvard and fordham), and accepted at lewis & clark with a small scholarship. after talking with current students in public interest they convinced me not to attend. i applied w same gpa but a 164 lsat. retook…

LSAT 169 GPA 3.55 2021–22 cycle

Attending Fordham University

…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 :)

LSAT 163 GPA 3.98 2024–25 cycle

Attending Temple University

Not a bad cycle overall. I got waitlisted more than I was expecting. Some advice: show interest! If you would consider a school and hold it above another school, then go to interest meetings and schedule meetings 1:1 with admissions people.

LSAT 162 GPA 3.64 2024–25 cycle

Attending University of Illinois—Urbana Champaign

I think I underestimated how much scores really matter. But if you’re waitlisted, I would just continue following up with the school, go visit, and attend as many admission zooms as possible to show interest. That’s what worked for me. Good luck! This process is a doozie.

LSAT 166 GPA 3.79 2024–25 cycle

Attending Emory University

Apply early! I think I got some waitlists that I would not have gotten had I not applied early September, given my stats. Also, get started early! Having everything ready to go before applications even opened reduced my stress a lot throughout the process. I ultimately ended up choosing Emory because of the job…

LSAT 164 GPA 3.60 2024–25 cycle

Attending Tulane University

TLDR: reapplicant (check @mindlesswirygoblin), got off wake’s waitlist by writing the worlds most unhinged letters of continuing interest, ultimately picked tulane because I’d come out debt free and be able to live comfortably hey there! hopefully this year is better than last! i decided to retake the LSAT after…