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lrg · Post by **lrg** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:53 am

Got a phone call with a PIPS offer via a phone call last saturday. Numbers: 3.6/165. No formal email yet.

laurencita7 · Post by **laurencita7** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:44 am

lrg wrote:Got a phone call with a PIPS offer via a phone call last saturday. Numbers: 3.6/165. No formal email yet.

Same here, 165, 3.77. Said they hope to have 10 PIPSers.

ash8309 · Post by **ash8309** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:36 am

laurencita7 wrote:
lrg wrote:Got a phone call with a PIPS offer via a phone call last saturday. Numbers: 3.6/165. No formal email yet.
Same here, 165, 3.77. Said they hope to have 10 PIPSers.

Congrats to both of you! Did you guys accept? What type of public service/public interest law do you want to do?

philswfc2008 · Post by **philswfc2008** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:19 am

lsatextreme wrote:received my ding email today. Broke my heart.

I'm sorry to hear that!

Has anyone else heard back from American lately? I've seen very little feedback on admission decisions in this thread, at least compared to other schools' threads/postings. I went complete on 1/14 (after submitting everything in mid-November...had to wait for December LSAT score to roll in). I sort of expected to hear back by now, but who knows how long others have been waiting. Stats are 167/3.33 (non-URM)

laurencita7 · Post by **laurencita7** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:44 am

ash8309 wrote:
laurencita7 wrote:
lrg wrote:Got a phone call with a PIPS offer via a phone call last saturday. Numbers: 3.6/165. No formal email yet.
Same here, 165, 3.77. Said they hope to have 10 PIPSers.
Congrats to both of you! Did you guys accept? What type of public service/public interest law do you want to do?

I'm almost positive I'll be accepting (I have until 4/3 to decide). Want to do some combination of gender/reproductive rights/health law/international law.

ash8309 · Post by **ash8309** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:50 am

laurencita7 wrote:
ash8309 wrote:
laurencita7 wrote:
lrg wrote:Got a phone call with a PIPS offer via a phone call last saturday. Numbers: 3.6/165. No formal email yet.
Same here, 165, 3.77. Said they hope to have 10 PIPSers.
Congrats to both of you! Did you guys accept? What type of public service/public interest law do you want to do?
I'm almost positive I'll be accepting (I have until 4/3 to decide). Want to do some combination of gender/reproductive rights/health law/international law.

Cool. I hope I can join you! I have not heard anything yet. I wonder how many have gone out already. I know there was one person on this forum who was offered PIPS and turned it down.

abonda01 · Post by **abonda01** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:17 pm

philswfc2008 wrote:
lsatextreme wrote:received my ding email today. Broke my heart.

I'm sorry to hear that!

Has anyone else heard back from American lately? I've seen very little feedback on admission decisions in this thread, at least compared to other schools' threads/postings. I went complete on 1/14 (after submitting everything in mid-November...had to wait for December LSAT score to roll in). I sort of expected to hear back by now, but who knows how long others have been waiting. Stats are 167/3.33 (non-URM)

Weird. They probably just haven't gotten back to your app yet.

cowgirl_bebop · Post by **cowgirl_bebop** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:20 pm

abonda01 wrote:
philswfc2008 wrote:
lsatextreme wrote:received my ding email today. Broke my heart.

I'm sorry to hear that!

Has anyone else heard back from American lately? I've seen very little feedback on admission decisions in this thread, at least compared to other schools' threads/postings. I went complete on 1/14 (after submitting everything in mid-November...had to wait for December LSAT score to roll in). I sort of expected to hear back by now, but who knows how long others have been waiting. Stats are 167/3.33 (non-URM)
Weird. They probably just haven't gotten back to your app yet.

I went complete on 1/17, then on 1/14, then crickets.

Im thinking about just withdrawing my application. I'm not going to American anyway. If they let me in they wont give me much of any money and if I were in the mood to pay sticker in DC I'd do it for GW.

oreo3405 · Post by **oreo3405** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:03 pm

Got my PIPS Rejection Letter just now in email. Boo.

ash8309 · Post by **ash8309** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:04 pm

Just got the email that I am denied for the PIPS scholarship. Crushed. American is no longer an option for me.

girlonfire · Post by **girlonfire** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:43 pm

ash8309 wrote:Just got the email that I am denied for the PIPS scholarship. Crushed. American is no longer an option for me.

+1
not crushed... but AU is def not a viable option anymore at +48K/yr, not including COL

Jeffro · Post by **Jeffro** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:52 pm

girlonfire wrote:
ash8309 wrote:Just got the email that I am denied for the PIPS scholarship. Crushed. American is no longer an option for me.
+1
not crushed... but AU is def not a viable option anymore at +48K/yr, not including COL

+1
I figured this would be coming for me, but it was really the only reason I would have gone to American. Looks like DC is out.

ash8309 · Post by **ash8309** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:01 pm

Jeffro wrote:
girlonfire wrote:
ash8309 wrote:Just got the email that I am denied for the PIPS scholarship. Crushed. American is no longer an option for me.
+1
not crushed... but AU is def not a viable option anymore at +48K/yr, not including COL
+1
I figured this would be coming for me, but it was really the only reason I would have gone to American. Looks like DC is out.

Meet you at the virtual bar tonight for a drink? That's what I need now.

lottero89 · Post by **lottero89** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:58 pm

Yeah, I got the PIPS ding today too, which was kind of depressing.

Has anyone tried to leverage more money from American yet? I am above their 75% percentiles and got that 10K one-time scholarship (the most they gave to people aside from full-rides), but I don't see how that amount of money would convince anyone to go there who has gotten into better schools. I read on this forum somewhere that they start throwing more money at people when they don't receive their deposits later on in April - has anyone from earlier cycles (such as last year) had direct experience with this?

I guess I will write them an email asking them to consider increasing the scholarship...

nightman09 · Post by **nightman09** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:01 pm

Has anyone looks into American's PILRAP? For those interested in public interest, this seems a bit too good to be true or, maybe I'm just reading it wrong...

oreo3405 · Post by **oreo3405** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:03 pm

nightman09 wrote:Has anyone looks into American's PILRAP? For those interested in public interest, this seems a bit too good to be true or, maybe I'm just reading it wrong...

A lot of schools offer a program like this, which im quite interested in. My luck, it'll lose its funding by the time i finish LS.

nightman09 · Post by **nightman09** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:05 pm

oreo3405 wrote:
nightman09 wrote:Has anyone looks into American's PILRAP? For those interested in public interest, this seems a bit too good to be true or, maybe I'm just reading it wrong...
A lot of schools offer a program like this, which im quite interested in. My luck, it'll lose its funding by the time i finish LS.

AU's seems a bit more generous then most though...

DeeCee · Post by **DeeCee** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:09 am

ash8309 wrote:
Jeffro wrote:
girlonfire wrote:
ash8309 wrote:Just got the email that I am denied for the PIPS scholarship. Crushed. American is no longer an option for me.
+1
not crushed... but AU is def not a viable option anymore at +48K/yr, not including COL
+1
I figured this would be coming for me, but it was really the only reason I would have gone to American. Looks like DC is out.
Meet you at the virtual bar tonight for a drink? That's what I need now.

::Hanging out at the virtual bar, anxiously awaiting other ex-PIPS applicants::

Anyway, now my decision is made for me. I'll be going to UNC this fall and spending 17k a year, because sticker at American is too costly. Guess I'll wait out my feelings for a couple days, and then withdraw Monday.

lrg · Post by **lrg** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:12 am

ash8309 wrote:
laurencita7 wrote:
lrg wrote:Got a phone call with a PIPS offer via a phone call last saturday. Numbers: 3.6/165. No formal email yet.
Same here, 165, 3.77. Said they hope to have 10 PIPSers.
Congrats to both of you! Did you guys accept? What type of public service/public interest law do you want to do?

Thanks! I haven't accepted yet but will most likely put down the deposit, since I am abroad until late April and would like to visit first. No family in DC, so the location is the only drawback. I would like to focus on environmental law, both domestic and international, as well as youth rights.

For those of you who didn't get the scholarship, I think the loan repayment program is a lot better than peer schools, and for those on waitlist, don't lose hope yet!

pcvmeli · Post by **pcvmeli** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:03 am

I applied to for the PIPS and haven't gotten the ding email yet, of course the telephone number I submitted is my Mom's in the states and she doesn't often answer it. Hmm, hopefully I will hear something via email soon! Congrats to all those recipients out there!

pcvmeli · Post by **pcvmeli** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:55 am

pcvmeli wrote:I applied to for the PIPS and haven't gotten the ding email yet, of course the telephone number I submitted is my Mom's in the states and she doesn't often answer it. Hmm, hopefully I will hear something via email soon! Congrats to all those recipients out there!

update: got rejection

limelightwave · Post by **limelightwave** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:38 pm

Accepted today via email, 165/3.57

philswfc2008 · Post by **philswfc2008** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:43 pm

limelightwave wrote:Accepted today via email, 165/3.57

Congrats! When did you apply/go complete?

limelightwave · Post by **limelightwave** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:48 pm

philswfc2008 wrote:
limelightwave wrote:Accepted today via email, 165/3.57
Congrats! When did you apply/go complete?

Thanks! EDIT: Applied 2/24, Complete 3/2.

red_alertz · Post by **red_alertz** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:14 pm

accepted! first acceptance of the cycle, after dings and dings, can finally breath now

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