Good luck to you! Don't be to disappointed keep it up you'll get there.

If you read into the why a law professor would call you, I think a logical conclusion you could draw is they (admissions committee and faculty) see a worthwhile investment for their program. That would support why it was done on such a personal level. As for the question of it being a common practice? I do think that its not uncommon, especially if you take into consideration the tier level of the school.

I agree with @, I think its reasonable to expect admissions officers to have a certain degree of bias regarding applications especially factoring in early and late admissions.

I can see the point that admissions truly does try their best at putting an equal amount of effort into judging applications. I guess the question would be "What do you consider an equal amount of judgement when looking at an application?"

That being said, I answered your question "No, how could they?" purely based on the quantity of applicants; if Joe admissions officer has to read 50 admissions a day I would say some applications don't get as much attention as others especially if they are not hitting the criteria for that particular school.

Looks like the LSAT gods are not in your favor, however, I honestly believe its completely random. I had 2 LG's and 3 LR's on my last two exams. Hopefully you wont get 2 RC's again but if you do don't let it throw you!

Look up the best places to volunteer in your state. If I wasn't working that's what I would do, as well as hit the gym for 3hrs a day.