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@kaylangeiger2284 said:
Be somewhat skeptical of this advice, I have not submitted applications yet. To the best of my knowledge this is how I believe it is:
Once it is submitted to lsac I think it's almost instantaneous. I know as soon as my professors uploaded the letters I saw them in the lsac portal. I think the deadline means it's the last day to submit the application through LSAC. Since it's electronic, I don't see why there would be a delay. I'm assuming though, maybe reach out to the schools admission office and ask for clarification or look at the schools FAQ
Maybe in the next email ask for a confirmation she received the email. I don't know - if I were in your shoes, I would try to send out some form of contact to get conformation because this is your application and it's 9 days until the deadline.
Hi,
So do you know if LSAC received the letter, but still processing, they will notify us?
How do we know the recommender already submitted the letter?
So frustrated...when I called them they said they cannot answer whether they received the letter.
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It seems the prof is quiet busy right now so I'm worried if I call her it can bother her...maybe another email should be OK right?
I didn't get a reply to my last email to her...
do you know how long it takes for LSAC to upload the letter once they get it?
Cuz I can submit application once they get the letter right...
And I'm worried, when school says the dead line is 2/15 does that mean school has to receive the application by 2/15 or is I submit the application through LSAC by 2/15, it's fine and does not matter when they receive&open the application?
By the way, when I met her I already told her the deadline is 2/15 and she said it should be OK.
Hello,
So...I asked my prof to write a letter on January, and she kindly accepted.
But it's Feb already and it seems she does not open the email from LSAC yet.
The deadline is 2/15 and I told her that and I emailed her like 4 days ago attaching uploaded PS, but should I email her again and tell her as a reminder that the deadline is 2/15?
It must take some time for LSAC to upload the letter and send application to school so I hope she can email the letter like 2/13 at the latest but I do not want to push her neither...what should I do?
Should I wait for a couple of days more?
Thanks
Hi,
I found some schools even limit the words number to 350 even though they do not have page number limit for PS.
When there is no page number limit, should we still limit DS to 1 page/shorter than PS? or maybe, longest 2 pages or so?
By the way, characters and words are different right?
When it says 1000 characters, it is not the same as 1000 words, right?
Thank you
I see. Thanks :) I just wanted to know it's safe I guess cuz I have never shown my transcript to others except for adcom.
Thank you both.
It sees like my professor is willing to write a throughout letter for me, I'm so grateful then.
Hi,
My recommendar asked me to email the transcript too.
I have never been asked to give a transcript to a professor, so not sure this is common.
Did you show your transcript to your recommenders?
Thank you.
Thank you so much everyone...I feel much relieved.
I could not do anything today, but thought about this thing all the day...
I will start to work on my application again now. Thank you!!
I'll do my best.
@jhaldy10325
Thanks, I hope so...
@lsattrial
Does that mean if I will not it can affect my application?
I'm not sure how to talk to him...he always talk loud and my heart bump a lot whenever I talk with him.
Let me edit this post because I don't want him to see it just in case.
Thanks again, everyone :)
Hello,
I have a question, in my PS I discussed I have been interested in law for a long time, but I studied a totally different subject in grad school. There are several reasons and I did not study it for giving up law school, but should I explain that in addendum? Or do I look like I am making an excuse?
Thanks.
Hello, I have a question about the letters.
1. Should we show our PS DS or any essays to the prof?
2. I have a couple of letters and wonder what steps to take after LSAC received the letters...I thought we can choose letters, but no? If we submit them, will all of them be sent to all schools?
3. When they say at least 2 letters, but accept 3, how many do you submit? I heard 3 is better, but also heard if the contnt is the same (almost) you should not bother Adcom to read the additional one.
4. I'm meeting another professor. She is quiet busy but I hope I can get a letter from her asap...how can I be polite but still ask her to write a letter as soon as she can?
Thank you for your help.
ALso by the way,
When they ask whether we applied to other schools,
Can we just choose "do not apply me" box and leave it blank? (like Fordham school)
Or we should fill them out if we do apply other schools...wonde why they ask this in the application.
I also wonder why they ask ethnicity...
Do people answer this or leave it blank?
Will it affect the decision?
I know officially they will say no, but...
@jhaldy10325
Thanks again.
I don't know, because people say you have to attract their attention and I put the two sentences kind of trying to be appleaning but...
And, when they say the page number is unlimited, is it really unlimited? Or should we still make it to be 2 pages?
I wonder how many pages people usually write for this type of instruction.
Thanks guys,
Good to know.
So we don't have to or actually, cannot submit to adcom directly right? We submit all materials on LSAC I guess?
Hello,
I have a question about submitting essays.
So it seems most school allow to submit 1)PS and 2)Diversity Statement
What if they allow us to submit optional essay (Why X school essay) (Addendum) but no place to submit those on LSAC? I don't see there's additional space for uploading those essays.
Does it mean we cannot submit those essays if we submit 1)2)? (So what they meant was submiting only 2 from those 4 options?)
Thanks
@jhaldy10325
Thanks. :)
Can I ask one more question?
Can a paragraph consist of only 2 sentences? Or it's not appropriate?
Hello,
So if we want to talk about interviews we had, speakers in a meeting etc, do we have to reveal their real names in PS?
In fact I forgot some of their names...
If I just say "a guest speaker" would it look weak?
Also, how gramatically strict PS should be?
I read some PS but some sound poetic like fiction novels, not like the tone of academic research paper...
Thank you!
@staciaglee275 said:
@lsattrial When a recommender submits a letter, LSAC will email you. It's instantaneous - one of my recommenders emailed me right after she submitted her letter. I received an email from LSAC seconds later.
Also, you should be able to see which of your recommenders fulfilled your request on the LoR page of LSAC's website.
Thank you, but in fact she said she faxed the letter...
Do you know whether I will get a confirmation letter in this case?
And how long will it take to show up on the website?
I called them twice but they only answered it may take up to 10 days...is it really that long?
I thought faxing and emailing are kind of the same, they can just proceed right away...