flgator10 wrote:ChattTNdt wrote:I caution anyone considering a late application with borderline numbers to reconsider applying in January. I applied to UF last year on January 8 with a 3.2 and a 165, and was waitlisted. I am certain if I had applied in October, I would have been admitted. But my only LSAT score at that time was 158. I had to wait for the December LSAT and by then it was really too late
If you are a high GPA splitter I would do what the other poster suggested; apply with your September LSAT score, and if you are unsatisfied with your score go ahead and retake in December. It is highly unlikely that the adcomms will have made a decision on your file at the time of the December score release, and they can be updated with your new score while already having the rest of your complete application. I did not have this option because applying with both GPA and LSAT <25% I would have been rejected quickly. Based on what I saw last application cycle, UF prefers high GPA to high LSAT.
Thanks for the great advice. So if I apply with my earlier LSAT score and then decide to retake it in December, they will still look at my application before the December score is released?
No guarantees about when they will look at your application. However, here is how it worked last cycle. You will get a status checker link once you apply, and you will frantically check it 100x per day

This status checker will first tell you that your file is complete... usually 2 weeks after they have received it from LSAC.
The next message the status checker will give is after your file has gotten its first review.
Last cycle, people either got "Decision in Transit" or "Application Reviewed; decision pending", anywhere from 3-6 weeks after going complete.
If you got decision in transit without ever going decision pending, you were either an "auto-admit" or an "auto-reject", and the corresponding admission/rejection letter was mailed
The vast majority of people I talked to got the decision pending message instead. Especially anyone with numbers near median, and any splitters. This basically means they reviewed your file the first time but aren't sure how much space they will have, and can't commit to admitting you yet until they have reviewed all other applications.
As the spring wore on, more and more of the decision pending people finally got their second review and subsequent final decisions.
So to put it simply, your application may or may not be reviewed before the December score release. However, if it is, the chances of you being an auto-reject with a GPA >75% is extremely slim (unless you completely blow the September LSAT, say <154). Then, after you've retaken in December, the adcomms will be updated with your new score and will refer to the new score when they review your application the second time.