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I remember reading some havard law admissions interviews stating that they highly recommend applicants to build work experience before applying
Changing times we live in
And I totally understand why that is usually a good idea. Usually it provides an increased opportunity to get into a law school with a much better shot of doing either legal work or BigLaw if that is what you want while also giving you time to improve your LSAT score. It also looks a little better to employers.
However, right now the choice for me is whether to get the experience now or as a lawyer. If I went and got work experience now, maybe it gets me a slightly better outcome in terms of law school admissions and a slightly better job out of law school. If I go to law school at Michigan with a big scholarship then I'll have a couple years of experience as a lawyer by the time I would be entering the legal market if I waited. That probably is the better move for my career.
If I was just looking at maximizing financial returns, it would certainly be better to go now with the big scholarship. If I wanted to do as well financially as possible I would definitely do Big Law. The sooner I wipe out what will be a relatively small debt, the sooner I could start saving some money from Big Law. The earlier I do that, the more it compounds before retirement.
I totally agree with this line of logic. It is sometimes overlooked that being a couple years ahead in your legal career than can help propel your career faster and help you reach your financial goals faster as well. Even though my own work experience isn't legal related, I do believe that it helped me mature a bit and helped me realize that the academic setting and the work place are two completely different arenas with its own quirks. To clarify, this definitely may not apply to you. Just giving my two cents.
Yeah, I did apply fairly late in the cycle (went complete mid to late January). Also, am a KJD and I don't really have a good "why law" aspect in my apps so I guess that's why I am getting waitlisted like crazy. In case anyone here's interested, here's what's happened so far:
Yale: No response
Harvard: Waitlist, no JS1
Stanford: No response
Chicago: No response
Columbia: Admitted
NYU: No response? Got the hold tight email a couple of days ago
UPenn: No response
Duke: "Priority Reserve" aka Waitlist
Michigan: Waitlist
Northwestern: Waitlist
Berkeley: No response
Georgetown: No response
So yeah, lots of waitlists... Haha.
For anyone still waiting on Berkeley, someone on reddit said they called admissions and were told that they were planning to have all their decisions out by the end of this week.
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Omg!! I didn’t apply to Berk but fingers crossed for everyone here who did!!
@LSATGarbageMan and anyone else waiting on NYU: I got the still under review email in early Feb and still no final decision. Anyone else have experience with the NYU process? Is this typical? Bad news? Are they getting approval for my full scholarship? Haha, as if.
Y'all are doing so great!
Awesome to hear back about these results from so much hard work.
Welp, not sure if all decisions are out yet, but finally got that official Berkeley ding! Narrowing down the options. hah.
Their loss!! You have so many other great options. Good luck moving forward
Sorry about that one, on my way to work today (since I pass that school) I’ll go tell them they made a stupid mistake. I didn’t apply nothing to lose. Haha
Keep your head up! Other good options out there!
I think I'm going crazy
Yep, still silence for me. No acceptances, and quite a few schools still just not sending me anything lol
How many schools did you apply to?
Lots lol like 16 or more
Ohhh me too! And I applied pretty close to most of their deadlines bcof the feb lsat. Don’t worry. I’m sure you will hear soon and will turn those waitlists to acceptances. Did you send your LOCIs?
anyone hear back from yale recently? still no response from them..
Not yet, but they usually take a long time
It's almost April, it's also Friday. Do you think these people are aware that they're already driving us insane, before we even start law school?? Passover/Easter is gonna be really hard this year got us. Can't enjoy my weekend. Thx.
I feel you. The one thing I'm sort of happy about is that Duke said they would send me scholarship info the first week of April.
Now if only I could get Yale, Stanford, Chicago, NYU, Penn, Virginia, Northwestern, and Cornell to send along decisions next week too.
I wish they would at least give us some sort of idea...I have a scholarship deposit due right after Easter and it's pretty expensive to deposit! Almost $1000
This wait is getting really old, really fast. It's almost April and there are still a decent amount of schools that haven't made a decision, or even communicated with me yet....
I'm sick of refreshing websites waiting for something to happen lol
I wish that schools gave out their decisions at the same time. I realize this may create a whole mess of other issues but right now (with this deposit deadline) I am so stressed.
Damn these schools are really on my last nerve.
My mail man hates me so much, I swear I'm out there everyday at 12:42 awaiting his arrival.
We're not even in law school yet, and they're already ripping us off.
Exactly! I mean $1000?? Like seriously. And I only got this decision from them a week ago and their deadline is Monday. It's my first acceptance so I don't know if it's typical but that's not a lot of time and that is a LOT of money.
Me: "Yes, let me just grab my wallet, good thing I have that $1000 lying around."
We're already broke, I mean what do they think we are
wow.. Theres a 4.04 gpa and 180 lsat scorer on Law School Numbers who got waitlisted to columbia..
lol
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It seems like K-JDs are getting hit particularly hard in this more competitive cycle. Schools have the option of increasing their medians, taking larger classes, and/or focusing on soft factors like work experience in composing their classes. I’m not K-JD, but I’m definitely modifying my expectations for when I apply next cycle after seeing the results of people with much better numbers than me this year.
This is how I wake up feeling
She got into harvard so lifes not over haha
Anyone else read about "Ivy Day" yesterday? I know it's for those little undergrads, but their numbers that were released were very interesting. I also read the WSJ this morning & noticed that although the % admitted was small, the generous grants/money awarded also hit some all time highs. Hmmm, I could be the only one thinking this, but maybe a lot of these Universities in general are having a harder time than we think overall?? I can post the link of the article, if anyone cares. Probably not. But I found it interesting anyway, since being analytical is what we all are masters of...
Inacurrate, I got in to UCI via email. 3 days later received a packet in the mail.
Accurate - last week a ton of rejections and wait-lists were sent via snail mail with no accompanying e-mail
I don't think it's the case that they're having a harder time. I'm quite far removed from the college admissions process, but I imagine the record highs of grants come from programs designed to benefit applicants of lower SES. For example, Harvard offers free tuition to students who come from families with income below $65,000 per year.
I’m thinking it sounds maybe like acceptances get emails and others do not? Although I swear I saw a few people say they got in and only got snail mail. Could be wrong on that point though.
Waitlisted at Virginia.
I think these waitlists are going to start rolling in.
Congrats! You're still in the running.
YP.
Only if I accept the spot on the waitlist. I probably will just in case I get some big scholarship off the waitlist.
However, since it's nearly useless for negotiation now, Virginia is basically gone from my cycle.
Probably, which means I needed to write a better Why Virginia. I didn't really have any good ties to work with though jyst their proximity to DC, public interest programs, and law and economics strength(none of which are individually exclusive to them).
So far I'm in at Columbia(with no money), in at Duke which I am tied to through one of my recommenders and priority track(with scholarship info supposedly coming this week), in at Michigan(with $150000) with strong ties to the state, and in at WUSTL(with $$$).
I'm waitlisted at Harvard. (Can't be yield protection, but might be me being KJD).
Waitlisted at Virginia(probably yield protection).
Interviewed at Chicago
Held tight at NYU
Ghosted by Stanford(GPA and KJD), by Penn (Yield Protection), by Northwestern (KJD), and by Cornell(?)
I think that if you want big scholarships in the Top 14, ties to a school or it's area are important just because its hard to convince them you will go with high enough stats for their big scholarships otherwise. Thankfully, I had just enough of those to get a few good results and you can only go to one school.
@"Leah M B", I think you're right that the schools use different means of communication; it may also vary by admissions year and such.
did you apply to Yale?
so from all those letters that were sent out... do we know whether people have gotten those yet? I've been checking my mailbox like crazy
No news from uci?
@"Radhika." Yeah everyone got them last week, since then it has been silence on the forums. So if you didn't get one yet - I'd ASSUME you missed that wave (so did I)
@westcoastbestcoast Nope, no word from anyone for like the past two weeks. Just dead silence. I'm starting to just not care, I think I'll just apply for a job at McDonalds. I hear their managers can make like $17 an hour...
oh thank god. although I live in Ohio......... would that mean I might get it today? Please say no