Holy cow my anxiety is peaking! Are they all waiting to reject me in one fell swoop? I know I'm just being impatient, but still! Anyone else still waiting on a bunch of schools to get back to them? lol
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Holy cow my anxiety is peaking! Are they all waiting to reject me in one fell swoop? I know I'm just being impatient, but still! Anyone else still waiting on a bunch of schools to get back to them? lol
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@pcainti665 said:
@pcainti665 said:
I'm waiting on seven schools still :neutral:. At least we're still in the game brother!
Hey me too! That's like my exact number lol I'm still hoping for one acceptance. I'm telling you if one school does it they will win my heart forever lol
I've been following you for awhile and really, really hope you get in to a school!! I can't wait to read an acceptance post! Hang in there - good things come in time. Maybe go out and get a massage, that's my cure for everything, lol :smile: . Good luck to you dude.
I'm waiting on seven schools still :neutral:. At least we're still in the game brother!
@radhikabhog113 said:
@pcainti665 said:
@oberdysz231 said:
@pcainti665 said:
Add another waitlist to the collection:
Waitlist:
UVA
UMich
UCLA
ND
Hey Vader. Tell us about your acceptances
I have as many acceptances as I do limbs....0
Am I reading this right? Did you sacrifice your arms and legs by serving our country? Hats off to you.. you studied and owned this test the way you did.. I have a good friend who is paralyzed from the neck down, and always wanted to go to law school but doesn't think she can do it due to not being able to use her arms, or walk, etc. I would definitely like to tell her about you. Thank you for your service.
Oh no! Darth Vader gets his limbs cut off in star wars. And they were referring me to as Vader. I’m fully in tact, and lucky for it. I also know people who lost limbs in combat!
Your friend can totally do Law School though. Nothing is stoping her!!
@oberdysz231 > @oberdysz231 said:
@mickeycaleb788 said:
@oberdysz231 said:
@mickeycaleb788 said:
Calm down erry'one! The monster waves come in April... Right now, it's like we are all just floating in the water on our surfboards waiting. We see a few people that caught a wave and we start to feel like we are missing out but if we take a second to look around we'll see that we are definitely not alone.
Alot of the first deposits are due in april tho..
Perhaps that is 1 drawback of applying/getting accepted very early in the cycle if you are one of the people that wants to shop around at a lot of schools. Of course, some kinds of these unfortunate situations are unavoidable... However, the fact that you have to make a seat deposit and are considering it means you must have been accepted at a school you like at least, right?
It is true that April is when the VERY first seat deposits can be required of admits but that is not always a negative thing. Even if you make a seat deposit at multiple schools the LSAC will not release your individual information until May 15th. Some people have even been successful in openly discussing their deposits earlier than May 15th with law schools as a form of negotiation, although it has backfired for some so it should be done very delicately, if at all.
If March/April/May are the biggest months of movement, with seat deposits and disclosed information contributing to this positively for many, I still don't think the middle of March is time for panic-mode yet :)
So, let's all just continue to give each other lots of great content on all the forums we obsess over to make the process more bearable! I think it's a fun and exciting period of time in our lives that will pass sooner than it feels like. Pretty soon it will be a distant memory that we will hopefully remember with a happy sense of nostalgia :)
I have heard that schools did share information of students who had deposits in multiple schools. Perhaps this is a thing in the past.
Here's an article about this from Yale's admission blog that may be useful:
"law schools may not require applicants to withdraw from schools from which they have not yet received a decision as a condition of accepting a scholarship or any other type of offer."
https://law.yale.edu/admissions/jd-admissions/ask-asha/speaking-law-school-scams
@hbochjk116 said:
@mcglazo260 said:
Has anyone in history ever just gotten a “no response”? I got my very first response yesterday (which was an acceptance) but so far nothing from all the other schools. Should I be worried?
It's a waiting game, we're all wondering when these looming question marks will go away from schools. Geez, and we all thought that waiting for the scores to come in was rough....
Like actually though, I miss the LSAT lol
@pcainti665 said:
@oberdysz231 said:
@pcainti665 said:
Add another waitlist to the collection:
Waitlist:
UVA
UMich
UCLA
ND
Hey Vader. Tell us about your acceptances
I have as many acceptances as I do limbs....0
Am I reading this right? Did you sacrifice your arms and legs by serving our country? Hats off to you.. you studied and owned this test the way you did.. I have a good friend who is paralyzed from the neck down, and always wanted to go to law school but doesn't think she can do it due to not being able to use her arms, or walk, etc. I would definitely like to tell her about you. Thank you for your service.
@oberdysz231 said:
@pcainti665 said:
Add another waitlist to the collection:
Waitlist:
UVA
UMich
UCLA
ND
Hey Vader. Tell us about your acceptances
I have as many acceptances as I do limbs....0
@pcainti665 said:
@pcainti665 said:
I'm waiting on seven schools still :neutral:. At least we're still in the game brother!
Hey me too! That's like my exact number lol I'm still hoping for one acceptance. I'm telling you if one school does it they will win my heart forever lol
For many schools at the moment, it is currently very "busy" for universities. Especially those that are Ivy League schools mainly because of a few reasons:
I: Weather. I know that in much of P.A, N.Y, M.A and many other schools up in the North East are just getting power back. There has been a lot of problems regarding just getting their electricity to start working again. Take it with a grain of salt, but I think many schools are just getting back on their feet.
II: Spring Break. Although the offices stay open for most of those who work at the universities, they are often very busy putting in a lot of grades, graduation info, and organizing their current students. I know that admissions for these Law schools are separate from the rest of the school, but they often have the same calendar. It is mid March, and they are mostly extremely busy getting late/new info from many of the applicants.
III: It seems unfair... but the admissions departments are human too. It would be difficult to give a fair analysis for each worthy candidate without careful review. If it takes longer, is usually because (like any admissions team) they have lots of pressure, as much as we do. Anxiety for both ends of this predicament.
Its a waiting game.
I really want Michigan and Berkeley to just put me out of my misery. Don’t they know that it’s rude to ghost people? Have the courage to reject me to my face already!
@taraspencer111392 said:
@oberdysz231 > @oberdysz231 said:
@mickeycaleb788 said:
@oberdysz231 said:
@mickeycaleb788 said:
Calm down erry'one! The monster waves come in April... Right now, it's like we are all just floating in the water on our surfboards waiting. We see a few people that caught a wave and we start to feel like we are missing out but if we take a second to look around we'll see that we are definitely not alone.
Alot of the first deposits are due in april tho..
Perhaps that is 1 drawback of applying/getting accepted very early in the cycle if you are one of the people that wants to shop around at a lot of schools. Of course, some kinds of these unfortunate situations are unavoidable... However, the fact that you have to make a seat deposit and are considering it means you must have been accepted at a school you like at least, right?
It is true that April is when the VERY first seat deposits can be required of admits but that is not always a negative thing. Even if you make a seat deposit at multiple schools the LSAC will not release your individual information until May 15th. Some people have even been successful in openly discussing their deposits earlier than May 15th with law schools as a form of negotiation, although it has backfired for some so it should be done very delicately, if at all.
If March/April/May are the biggest months of movement, with seat deposits and disclosed information contributing to this positively for many, I still don't think the middle of March is time for panic-mode yet :)
So, let's all just continue to give each other lots of great content on all the forums we obsess over to make the process more bearable! I think it's a fun and exciting period of time in our lives that will pass sooner than it feels like. Pretty soon it will be a distant memory that we will hopefully remember with a happy sense of nostalgia :)
I have heard that schools did share information of students who had deposits in multiple schools. Perhaps this is a thing in the past.
Here's an article about this from Yale's admission blog that may be useful:
"law schools may not require applicants to withdraw from schools from which they have not yet received a decision as a condition of accepting a scholarship or any other type of offer."
https://law.yale.edu/admissions/jd-admissions/ask-asha/speaking-law-school-scams
This article is amazing. I feel like this author is on my side.
It speaks to me because I'm salty about an unscrupulous university that low-balled my merit scholarship after I wrote an addendum saying that I intended to sign the ED agreement (but I ultimately couldn't because of a hurricane impacting my only eligible LSAT exam). And so they imagine that I'd attend no matter what and so they gave me a merit scholarship that is 50% the size of all other applicants over the past three years with my equivalent scores. The only thing was that my intention to sign an ED agreement was based on the premise that they wouldn't fuck me over in scholarships--maybe that was my mistake.
Kind of similar situation--kind of different from what is mentioned in the blog post.
@taraspencer111392 said:
@oberdysz231 > @oberdysz231 said:
@mickeycaleb788 said:
@oberdysz231 said:
@mickeycaleb788 said:
Calm down erry'one! The monster waves come in April... Right now, it's like we are all just floating in the water on our surfboards waiting. We see a few people that caught a wave and we start to feel like we are missing out but if we take a second to look around we'll see that we are definitely not alone.
Alot of the first deposits are due in april tho..
Perhaps that is 1 drawback of applying/getting accepted very early in the cycle if you are one of the people that wants to shop around at a lot of schools. Of course, some kinds of these unfortunate situations are unavoidable... However, the fact that you have to make a seat deposit and are considering it means you must have been accepted at a school you like at least, right?
It is true that April is when the VERY first seat deposits can be required of admits but that is not always a negative thing. Even if you make a seat deposit at multiple schools the LSAC will not release your individual information until May 15th. Some people have even been successful in openly discussing their deposits earlier than May 15th with law schools as a form of negotiation, although it has backfired for some so it should be done very delicately, if at all.
If March/April/May are the biggest months of movement, with seat deposits and disclosed information contributing to this positively for many, I still don't think the middle of March is time for panic-mode yet :)
So, let's all just continue to give each other lots of great content on all the forums we obsess over to make the process more bearable! I think it's a fun and exciting period of time in our lives that will pass sooner than it feels like. Pretty soon it will be a distant memory that we will hopefully remember with a happy sense of nostalgia :)
I have heard that schools did share information of students who had deposits in multiple schools. Perhaps this is a thing in the past.
Here's an article about this from Yale's admission blog that may be useful:
"law schools may not require applicants to withdraw from schools from which they have not yet received a decision as a condition of accepting a scholarship or any other type of offer."
https://law.yale.edu/admissions/jd-admissions/ask-asha/speaking-law-school-scams
WoW! What a great article. Everyone applying this cycle should give it a read!
Yes they are creating quite a bit of March Madness by not getting back us!
I haven't gotten to sleep before 2am in the past week+. I'm a big ball of anxiety, y'all. This is rough. Information is slowly trickling in, but we're also getting closer to deposit dates... sigh.
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@pcainti665 said:
@oberdysz231 said:
@pcainti665 said:
Add another waitlist to the collection:
Waitlist:
UVA
UMich
UCLA
ND
Hey Vader. Tell us about your acceptances
I have as many acceptances as I do limbs....0
Noooooooooooo. In all seriousness, I will be praying for you. For UVA or Umich. U deserve t14 for ur lsat score and your service to this nation.
Add another waitlist to the collection:
Waitlist:
UVA
UMich
UCLA
ND
Still waiting on 6 schools here. Sigh. And of course, it's 6 of the ones I was most interested in attending.
At least a few are keeping me on my toes... I finally got accepted to the one that had the weird LSAC miscommunication. But they just sent me the scholarship app yesterday and it is due TOMORROW. Have to write a bio, and 1-2 essays. EEeeeeeek.
And yeah, with deposit deadlines and ASWs coming up fast, time really is of the essence. WUSTL's deposit deadline is crazy early, on April 9. Yikes!
@oberdysz231 said:
@mickeycaleb788 said:
Calm down erry'one! The monster waves come in April... Right now, it's like we are all just floating in the water on our surfboards waiting. We see a few people that caught a wave and we start to feel like we are missing out but if we take a second to look around we'll see that we are definitely not alone.
Alot of the first deposits are due in april tho..
Perhaps that is 1 drawback of applying/getting accepted very early in the cycle if you are one of the people that wants to shop around at a lot of schools. Of course, some kinds of these unfortunate situations are unavoidable... However, the fact that you have to make a seat deposit and are considering it means you must have been accepted at a school you like at least, right?
It is true that April is when the VERY first seat deposits can be required of admits but that is not always a negative thing. Even if you make a seat deposit at multiple schools the LSAC will not release your individual information until May 15th. Some people have even been successful in openly discussing their deposits earlier than May 15th with law schools as a form of negotiation, although it has backfired for some so it should be done very delicately, if at all.
If March/April/May are the biggest months of movement, with seat deposits and disclosed information contributing to this positively for many, I still don't think the middle of March is time for panic-mode yet :)
So, let's all just continue to give each other lots of great content on all the forums we obsess over to make the process more bearable! I think it's a fun and exciting period of time in our lives that will pass sooner than it feels like. Pretty soon it will be a distant memory that we will hopefully remember with a happy sense of nostalgia :)
@mickeycaleb788 said:
Calm down erry'one! The monster waves come in April... Right now, it's like we are all just floating in the water on our surfboards waiting. We see a few people that caught a wave and we start to feel like we are missing out but if we take a second to look around we'll see that we are definitely not alone.
Alot of the first deposits are due in april tho..
Calm down erry'one! The monster waves come in April... Right now, it's like we are all just floating in the water on our surfboards waiting. We see a few people that caught a wave and we start to feel like we are missing out but if we take a second to look around we'll see that we are definitely not alone.
My anxiety is through the roof. I think I have an ulcer now. I'm waiting on a ton of schools... only received one decision so far and it was a rejection :(
I've started going to spinning everyday to burn energy and help my mood but I just want to get accepted somewhere already!!! And I'm thinking the exact same thing @pcainti665 are they all just waiting to reject me on the same day?
I haven't heard from ANY schools...like at ALL. No waitlist, no rejections and no acceptances. What hell is this?
@pcainti665 said:
I'm waiting on seven schools still :neutral:. At least we're still in the game brother!
Hey me too! That's like my exact number lol I'm still hoping for one acceptance. I'm telling you if one school does it they will win my heart forever lol
I'm waiting on15 schools!
@mickeycaleb788 said:
I could possibly just use the fewest months possible (of the total 36 months) of my GI Bill that would allow me to get the full use of my scholarship?
If possible, I would do this.
if I have a scholly from a school but my GI Bill will cause there to be 60k+ in leftover scholarship money from the school, what should i do?
Does the extra money come to me? Am I only covered up to the cost of tuition and then the school retains the rest of the scholarship without giving me any of it? Should I use this to negotiate a fair deal?
I guess i am choosing to use my GI Bill for this as I managed to save it through undergrad but I dont have to use it... I could also pass it to someone else (spouse/child) and not use it at all if I choose not to. Could this fact be used to work a good deal out with the school? I'm just not sure why I would be motivated to use my entire GI Bill so that I don't make full use of my scholarship. I could possibly just use the fewest months possible (of the total 36 months) of my GI Bill that would allow me to get the full use of my scholarship?