Fee waivers from top schools

Overcomer

I received multiple fee waivers from schools in the T-14. However, my lsat score is a 161. Should I get excited by these waiver, or do they send them to everyone with scores similar to mine. I'm also a urm so I was wondering if this is why I'm being sent them.

_oshun1_

Doesn’t mean anything about your likelihood of being accepted. Maybe they like your gpa. App waivers are the equivalent of advertising.

Ohnoeshalpme

It's always good to get a waiver but at a 161 it's ambiguous why they would do that. Do you have a strong GPA?

DawnHenry

Same here (but not URM). I also have a 161. I find it encouraging but don’t put a lot of hopes on it the highest ranked waiver so far is Penn. It’s nice to save some $$ when applying, though.

Edit: I do have a high GPA, over 75th percentile at almost every school. But it wasn’t until I broke 160 on the Nov exam that I started to get waivers for the top 20.

SLP_futureJD

I'm in the exact same situation @DawnHenry and @Overcomer Studying for the Jan test, but I keep getting app waivers for schools that I'd really like to go to. I already told a few schools that are T20 to please hold my app until my January score but now I'm wondering if I should have just let them process my application to be earlier in the cycle. I have a few apps yet to submit that I was going to wait on until closer to the Jan test. It's so hard figuring out what to do! I've also seen from the forum that people often advise people in my situation to wait a cycle, but that's not an option for me at this point.

Overcomer

@Ohnoeshalpme I don't have a strong gpa. Its in the low 3's, so thats why I'm so surprised.