Have you received a fee waiver from nyu, Columbia, or upenn? Upenn's applications seems tedious and hard to be accepted for. And nyu and Columbia don't send out need based fee waivers
Glad to see everyone again! How r y'all doing? @NotMyName that's weird your LSAT is higher than mine but you didn't get a waiver from Columbia? I thought they gave waivers based on that.
For NYU and Columbia Why X's, what I hear is that they kinda already know why people want them so it might be redundant to add an additional document on this, but if you have a really compelling reason to write one, don't hold back.
As far as Columbia goes, I believe they specifically asked for you to explain “why Columbia” in the personal statement. Not sure if that’s helpful or not, but that’s what I did for my application to them.
Anedoctal of course, but went complete for Columbia early Feb/late Jan and got in recently. This is a slow cycle so late apps really aren't as punishing as they have been for previous cycles.