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Yea... with my 153 and 3.2 - I was pretty much just throwing out feelers with the expectation to have to take more time off to just focus on LSAT. I had decent softs and pretty good reasons for why my numbers were subpar and I felt that my recommendations and several years of work experience might give me a bump but didn't expect anything. I have received tons of personal handwritten notes on my acceptance letters about my PS in particular so I'm guessing that helped . And yes...it is a random mix of schools. I applied everywhere that I got a fee waiver lol.

Female URM

LSP has me at DENY at the following and I'm in at all:

Washington & Lee (13k/year)
Tulane (20k/year)
Penn State (9k/year)
U Richmond (in but don't know $$)
U Kentucky (fellowship to reduce tuition to in-state rate and still eligible for scholly $$)

Still waiting on these - probably denies...
Cardozo (deny)
Georgia State (deny)
Indy Bloomington (weak consider)

So many people tried to talk me out of applying and I almost let them but obviously I'm glad I didn't!

atlsntellect wrote:
So many people tried to talk me out of applying and I almost let them but obviously I'm glad I didn't!

You can see what an average LSAT and low GPA got you, people probably told you to retake and imagine what other kinds of offers you would have.

Emory(30k)

3.12/166

Not sure if this counts.

atlsntellect wrote:Yea... with my 153 and 3.2 - I was pretty much just throwing out feelers with the expectation to have to take more time off to just focus on LSAT. I had decent softs and pretty good reasons for why my numbers were subpar and I felt that my recommendations and several years of work experience might give me a bump but didn't expect anything. I have received tons of personal handwritten notes on my acceptance letters about my PS in particular so I'm guessing that helped . And yes...it is a random mix of schools. I applied everywhere that I got a fee waiver lol.

Female URM

LSP has me at DENY at the following and I'm in at all:

Washington & Lee (13k/year)
Tulane (20k/year)
Penn State (9k/year)
U Richmond (in but don't know $$)
U Kentucky (fellowship to reduce tuition to in-state rate and still eligible for scholly $$)

Still waiting on these - probably denies...
Cardozo (deny)
Georgia State (deny)
Indy Bloomington (weak consider)

So many people tried to talk me out of applying and I almost let them but obviously I'm glad I didn't!

congrats on w&L @ 13k a year- that's pretty damn good!

bport hopeful wrote:Emory(30k)

3.12/166

Not sure if this counts.

It does! That's a lot of money. Congrats!

Nicholasnickynic wrote:

atlsntellect wrote:Yea... with my 153 and 3.2 - I was pretty much just throwing out feelers with the expectation to have to take more time off to just focus on LSAT. I had decent softs and pretty good reasons for why my numbers were subpar and I felt that my recommendations and several years of work experience might give me a bump but didn't expect anything. I have received tons of personal handwritten notes on my acceptance letters about my PS in particular so I'm guessing that helped . And yes...it is a random mix of schools. I applied everywhere that I got a fee waiver lol.

Female URM

LSP has me at DENY at the following and I'm in at all:

Washington & Lee (13k/year)
Tulane (20k/year)
Penn State (9k/year)
U Richmond (in but don't know $$)
U Kentucky (fellowship to reduce tuition to in-state rate and still eligible for scholly $$)

Still waiting on these - probably denies...
Cardozo (deny)
Georgia State (deny)
Indy Bloomington (weak consider)

So many people tried to talk me out of applying and I almost let them but obviously I'm glad I didn't!

congrats on w&L @ 13k a year- that's pretty damn good!

it is! they gave me zip, haha. congrats!

ktg808 wrote:

bport hopeful wrote:Emory(30k)

3.12/166

Not sure if this counts.

It does! That's a lot of money. Congrats!

You are far too nice to be operating on this web site.

Sandro wrote:

atlsntellect wrote:
So many people tried to talk me out of applying and I almost let them but obviously I'm glad I didn't!

You can see what an average LSAT and low GPA got you, people probably told you to retake and imagine what other kinds of offers you would have.

Believe me, I was very unhappy with my score. I took the stupid thing twice - the first time I studied on my own for several months and the second time I did back-to-back Kaplan courses. I just feel like it was the best I could do. Not everyone can get 170's and, as much as I hate to say this, I'm one of those people.

**Edit** Thanks for all the congrats! I was pretty shocked myself as it was my first acceptance!

Wow this thread is awesome.

I had posted on the reach thread, but unfortunately I haven't made it into any "Deny" schools yet.

So what's the lowest percent "LSP Deny" so far? Was it 6%?

Congrats all that have been able to post in here.

Makes me wonder if it's too late to thrown some additional apps out there (SRS)...

I was a 9% Deny at Columbia and I got in ED

Then again, I was international so all of the GPAs I plugged in were estimates (but they were extremely generous according to the "grade equation" chart helpfully provided by my stupid school).

Thought it was <5% but I just re-did the numbers...

DENY at Berkeley.
3.66/163, non-URM
5 years WE abroad with a community development non-profit
still in shock that I got in!

TOMaHULK wrote: Wow this thread is awesome.

I had posted on the reach thread, but unfortunately I haven't made it into any "Deny" schools yet.

So what's the lowest percent "LSP Deny" so far? Was it 6%?

Congrats all that have been able to post in here.

Makes me wonder if it's too late to thrown some additional apps out there (SRS)...

My getting into NYU was <5%

subtle wrote:

TOMaHULK wrote: Wow this thread is awesome.

I had posted on the reach thread, but unfortunately I haven't made it into any "Deny" schools yet.

So what's the lowest percent "LSP Deny" so far? Was it 6%?

Congrats all that have been able to post in here.

Makes me wonder if it's too late to thrown some additional apps out there (SRS)...

My getting into NYU was <5%

Gettttttt it.

neonx wrote:

subtle wrote:

TOMaHULK wrote: Wow this thread is awesome.

I had posted on the reach thread, but unfortunately I haven't made it into any "Deny" schools yet.

So what's the lowest percent "LSP Deny" so far? Was it 6%?

Congrats all that have been able to post in here.

Makes me wonder if it's too late to thrown some additional apps out there (SRS)...

My getting into NYU was <5%

Gettttttt it.

<3

santisuk wrote:DENY at Berkeley.
3.66/163, non-URM
5 years WE abroad with a community development non-profit
still in shock that I got in!

You give me such amazing hope! We have the same numbers, and I'm under faculty review now. Come on work experience - do the trick for me too! Did you get in after admin review or faculty review?

lfp wrote:

santisuk wrote:DENY at Berkeley.
3.66/163, non-URM
5 years WE abroad with a community development non-profit
still in shock that I got in!

You give me such amazing hope! We have the same numbers, and I'm under faculty review now. Come on work experience - do the trick for me too! Did you get in after admin review or faculty review?

I got in through CR1. Berkeley really does live up to their reputation for giving a holistic review of applications-- that's the only reason I was accepted. I doubt I would have gotten into any of its peer schools.

Good luck to you!

3.58/168 URM female
LSP said Deny at Harvard and Stanford and I'm in at both. Also weak consider at Columbia, and UChicago and I'm in at both.

TOMaHULK wrote: Wow this thread is awesome.

I had posted on the reach thread, but unfortunately I haven't made it into any "Deny" schools yet.

So what's the lowest percent "LSP Deny" so far? Was it 6%?

Congrats all that have been able to post in here.

Makes me wonder if it's too late to thrown some additional apps out there (SRS)...

GWU had me at <5%

subtle wrote:

TOMaHULK wrote: Wow this thread is awesome.

I had posted on the reach thread, but unfortunately I haven't made it into any "Deny" schools yet.

So what's the lowest percent "LSP Deny" so far? Was it 6%?

Congrats all that have been able to post in here.

Makes me wonder if it's too late to thrown some additional apps out there (SRS)...

My getting into NYU was <5%

First of all congrats!

That's truly awesome. What inspired you to apply anyways? Just figured you'd rather at least try?

cowgirl_bebop wrote:

TOMaHULK wrote: Wow this thread is awesome.

I had posted on the reach thread, but unfortunately I haven't made it into any "Deny" schools yet.

So what's the lowest percent "LSP Deny" so far? Was it 6%?

Congrats all that have been able to post in here.

Makes me wonder if it's too late to thrown some additional apps out there (SRS)...

GWU had me at <5%

Congrats! Same question for you as above...You just felt like you were applying no matter what, and wouldn't be swayed?

172/173

below 3.0 GPA when applied

Michigan, Chicago!

TOMaHULK wrote:

subtle wrote:

TOMaHULK wrote: Wow this thread is awesome.

I had posted on the reach thread, but unfortunately I haven't made it into any "Deny" schools yet.

So what's the lowest percent "LSP Deny" so far? Was it 6%?

Congrats all that have been able to post in here.

Makes me wonder if it's too late to thrown some additional apps out there (SRS)...

My getting into NYU was <5%

First of all congrats!

That's truly awesome. What inspired you to apply anyways? Just figured you'd rather at least try?

Well, first of all, thanks!

It probably helped that I had no idea about LSP or TLS or LSN before I submitted all of my aps. I didn't realize that fee waivers weren't an indication of whether or not you were going to get in.

I wasn't going to apply, but around Thanksgiving, NYU sent me a fee waiver. So I filled out the ap over Christmas break and submitted it around New Year's. It wasn't until mid-January that I found TLS and started to realize just how slim my chances of getting into some of the schools I applied were/are (statistically speaking).

That said, a couple of things:

I am URM and a reverse splitter, two things that LSP doesn't account well for. Also, I think that, even being a URM, I've had maybe a slightly more successful cycle than can reasonably be expected (and certainly more so than I expected) because I think I did a really good job putting together my application (although, somewhat unknowingly). I think that one of my softs is possibly stronger than I figured and I forgot that I'm an Americorp alum (which is on my résumé) because I hated my experience. Stuff like that.

Anywayyyy, I'd say do it. Why the hell not? If you can afford it/get a fee waiver, why the hell not? The worst they can do is say no, at which point you weren't going to X law school anyway.

atlsntellect wrote:Yea... with my 153 and 3.2 - I was pretty much just throwing out feelers with the expectation to have to take more time off to just focus on LSAT. I had decent softs and pretty good reasons for why my numbers were subpar and I felt that my recommendations and several years of work experience might give me a bump but didn't expect anything. I have received tons of personal handwritten notes on my acceptance letters about my PS in particular so I'm guessing that helped . And yes...it is a random mix of schools. I applied everywhere that I got a fee waiver lol.

Female URM

LSP has me at DENY at the following and I'm in at all:

Washington & Lee (13k/year)
Tulane (20k/year)
Penn State (9k/year)
U Richmond (in but don't know $$)
U Kentucky (fellowship to reduce tuition to in-state rate and still eligible for scholly $$)

Still waiting on these - probably denies...
Cardozo (deny)
Georgia State (deny)
Indy Bloomington (weak consider)

So many people tried to talk me out of applying and I almost let them but obviously I'm glad I didn't!

Going to Dartmouth and working for three years in the legal industry probably didn't hurt.

A big congrats!

TOMaHULK wrote:

cowgirl_bebop wrote:

TOMaHULK wrote: Wow this thread is awesome.

I had posted on the reach thread, but unfortunately I haven't made it into any "Deny" schools yet.

So what's the lowest percent "LSP Deny" so far? Was it 6%?

Congrats all that have been able to post in here.

Makes me wonder if it's too late to thrown some additional apps out there (SRS)...

GWU had me at <5%

Congrats! Same question for you as above...You just felt like you were applying no matter what, and wouldn't be swayed?

I applied before I took the October LSAT hoping to get a 170+, but I got a 167. Then I retook in December, totally blacked out during the test, and got a 166

I thought that without that 170+ GW was totally off of the table, but I didnt withdraw. I was shocked when I got the email telling me I had been admitted! I think it was a combo of my URM status and my personal statement that helped. I wrote about growing up poor and having a mother diagnosed with brain cancer, and you know how adcomms feel about a good sob story

Some of URMs on here are claiming they got into schools they should not have. What BS. Everyone knows LSP is worthless for URMs. As a general rule, URMs are good to go with LSATs over 160 and GPAs over 3.0