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Checking in as well. Congrats everyone!

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Tekrul wrote:

Robert_Bert wrote:Question for current CLS students: what percentage of 1Ls live close/on campus? Would you say living nearby is "important"? Trying to decide whether to move to Morningside or stay in my current apt in manhattan with about a 40 min commute to campus. Pretty torn. Thanks!

Hey Robert_Bert. I commuted to class from Jersey City - it was about 40 minutes on the train, 1xfer, 1 hour door to door each way. I'd say over half the student body lives close to campus. A good amount live a short commute (10-15 minutes, no xfers), and a few of us live very far away. (I guess in answering your question, I'm going to assume 'important' = academic success and social stuff)

I can justify Jersey City to NYU. That's a very manageable commute. But Jersey City to Columbia... is a bit much. My current commute takes me from south BK to Columbus Circle. 45 mins (not counting delays and stops), and that has been wearing on me. The same issues: standing for long periods in crowded subway trains). I feel like parts of the Bronx would be more justifiable.

I have not been admitted yet (hoping for that blue letter), but here is some data from the 2012 EIP that was in PDF which I converted to Excel. I added some useful calcs as well. The 2013 data should be out soon, and I will report back with it once available:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1AHcF ... sp=sharing

lawschool22 wrote:I have not been admitted yet (hoping for that blue letter), but here is some data from the 2012 EIP that was in PDF which I converted to Excel. I added some useful calcs as well. The 2013 data should be out soon, and I will report back with it once available:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1AHcF ... sp=sharing

Thanks for this! I wish there was GPA data as well though...

t14splitter wrote:

lawschool22 wrote:I have not been admitted yet (hoping for that blue letter), but here is some data from the 2012 EIP that was in PDF which I converted to Excel. I added some useful calcs as well. The 2013 data should be out soon, and I will report back with it once available:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1AHcF ... sp=sharing

Thanks for this! I wish there was GPA data as well though...

Yeah...at least it gives somewhat of an idea of the relative competitiveness of the firms within a given school. But what I want to start to look at is this data compared to other schools. For instance if you're like me and you want to work in DC, it would be nice to be able to look at this percentages for the top 10 DC firms and compare to CLS, NYU, Duke, UVA, etc.

Any ED admits still waiting for their letters?

hyp7 wrote:Any ED admits still waiting for their letters?

just got mine last night

BrianG wrote:

hyp7 wrote:Any ED admits still waiting for their letters?

just got mine last night

I'm still waiting! I didn't even know this was happening.

Yay got in today. Guess it's between here and NYU most likely for me.

lawschool22 wrote:

t14splitter wrote:

lawschool22 wrote:I have not been admitted yet (hoping for that blue letter), but here is some data from the 2012 EIP that was in PDF which I converted to Excel. I added some useful calcs as well. The 2013 data should be out soon, and I will report back with it once available:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1AHcF ... sp=sharing

Thanks for this! I wish there was GPA data as well though...

Yeah...at least it gives somewhat of an idea of the relative competitiveness of the firms within a given school. But what I want to start to look at is this data compared to other schools. For instance if you're like me and you want to work in DC, it would be nice to be able to look at this percentages for the top 10 DC firms and compare to CLS, NYU, Duke, UVA, etc.

I agree. Hopefully more data like this starts floating around other school forums. I am interested in a non-NY major market, and it is really difficult to gauge the success of CLS students in that market without GPA data. For all I know, only top 10% students are getting offers, while the rest of the group is below median. It's impossible to tell.

Edit: To be clear, this is significantly more illuminating than what we had before. Thanks ls22!

Very happy to be checking in here. Congrats everyone!

lawschool22 wrote:I have not been admitted yet (hoping for that blue letter), but here is some data from the 2012 EIP that was in PDF which I converted to Excel. I added some useful calcs as well. The 2013 data should be out soon, and I will report back with it once available:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1AHcF ... sp=sharing

You are a god, ls22.

Checking in! Not committed, but very excited about Columbia.

iamgeorgebush wrote:

lawschool22 wrote:I have not been admitted yet (hoping for that blue letter), but here is some data from the 2012 EIP that was in PDF which I converted to Excel. I added some useful calcs as well. The 2013 data should be out soon, and I will report back with it once available:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1AHcF ... sp=sharing

You are a god, ls22.

Just trying to be helpful! Although it's looking increasingly likely I won't need to make the NYU/Columbia decision haha. No blue envelope...

Hey, don't give up hope! Who knows what will come.

Also, you're pretty good at Excel. Are you a ibankerbro?

iamgeorgebush wrote:Hey, don't give up hope! Who knows what will come.

Also, you're pretty good at Excel. Are you a ibankerbro?

No, but I am in finance-related industry. And thanks! Just trying to make it so I'll be pleasantly surprised if I get in to CLS lol

Checking in!! Not committed yet, but I'm VERY excited about Columbia and likely to attend. Nice to meet you all

Has anyone received a non Butler/Hamilton scholarship so far?

selden wrote:Has anyone received a non Butler/Hamilton scholarship so far?

i think that stuff doesn't come until later like most of the rest of the t14

barrelofmonkeys wrote:

selden wrote:Has anyone received a non Butler/Hamilton scholarship so far?

i think that stuff doesn't come until later like most of the rest of the t14

Cool, thanks a lot. That's what I had assumed, but I hadn't seen anything specific about timelines on the Columbia website like at the other T14 so I thought it was worth an ask.

Checking in! Very excited about potentially going to CLS weeee

Has anyone applied for the ASW travel stipend yet? PM me if you wouldn't mind talking about it a bit

Checking in! Wut up?!

I finally got The Envelope and now I see why nobody was commenting on it.