Chicago c/o 2015 Applicants (2011-2012 cycle) Forum

[ScoutFinch]

Just went under review. Hooray! Now to wait for two more under reviews...

Submitted 1/5, complete 1/27 UR 2/15.

Good luck! I got my second UR today, first was yesterday. Hoping they don't ding me tomorrow

[steelers2012]

Hey guys, I'm sure this has been posted earlier in the thread but I was just curious how those of you who have gotten accepted heard back (email/status checker/snail mail). I just went under second review today after first UR on 2/9 so hopefully I hear back soon

Best of luck to the rest of the applicant pool!

[brettashley]

Hey guys, I'm sure this has been posted earlier in the thread but I was just curious how those of you who have gotten accepted heard back (email/status checker/snail mail). I just went under second review today after first UR on 2/9 so hopefully I hear back soon

Best of luck to the rest of the applicant pool!

I realized after seeing this post that I never put my dates up for data, so I hope this helps.

Submit: 12/20
App Complete: 1/11
UR: Late Jan (forgot the actual date), 2/7, and then 2/9
Decision: 2/10

It definitely does feel like 3 URs yields a decision, but I don't think that's by any means a hard and fast rule.

[moxy]

Went UR today (2/17). I will update tomorrow as soon as I am dinged.

[mr_unemployed]

Went UR today (2/17). I will update tomorrow as soon as I am dinged.

you're funny, moxy

[moxy]

Went UR today (2/17). I will update tomorrow as soon as I am dinged.

you're funny, moxy

With numbers like mine, being funny is my only chance at a successful application. I hope you were not being sarcastic

[mr_unemployed]

Went UR today (2/17). I will update tomorrow as soon as I am dinged.

you're funny, moxy

With numbers like mine, being funny is my only chance at a successful application. I hope you were not being sarcastic

no, not sarcastic. your gloomy outlook - "they are going to spend one day reviewing my application and then ding me the next day without a second review or any other due diligence" - was funny the same way that eeyore is funny. i think that they will give you a fair shot. good luck, and i'm rooting for you!

[moxy]

Went UR today (2/17). I will update tomorrow as soon as I am dinged.

you're funny, moxy

With numbers like mine, being funny is my only chance at a successful application. I hope you were not being sarcastic

no, not sarcastic. your gloomy outlook - "they are going to spend one day reviewing my application and then ding me the next day without a second review or any other due diligence" - was funny the same way that eeyore is funny. i think that they will give you a fair shot. good luck, and i'm rooting for you!

If your LSN page, and the numbers are your reals numbers .. I am rooting for you bro .. otherwise .... fu lol .. I'm just kidding .. good luck!!

[mr_unemployed]

you're funny, moxy

With numbers like mine, being funny is my only chance at a successful application. I hope you were not being sarcastic

no, not sarcastic. your gloomy outlook - "they are going to spend one day reviewing my application and then ding me the next day without a second review or any other due diligence" - was funny the same way that eeyore is funny. i think that they will give you a fair shot. good luck, and i'm rooting for you!

If your LSN page, and the numbers are your reals numbers .. I am rooting for you bro .. otherwise .... fu lol .. I'm just kidding .. good luck!!

already waitlisted. but i'll take the luck anyway. i'm planning to submit a LOCI.

[2014]

I posted this in the admissions forum but curious what you guys think. Do you think it would be to my advantage to visit in hopes of showing interest and getting off the WL? And for those who have visited do you schedule your visit and talk to anyone in admissions or just show up?

[180asBreath]

ttt

[AntipodeanPhil]

Any bets on when they will send the (non-Ruby) financial aid emails this year? They mentioned in an email that it would be sometime this week. I just checked, and last year the emails went out on a Friday (02/18).

[brogoc]

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[PopTorts13]

Received the admitted student package today and it is incredibly impressive. VERY excited about the prospect of attending!

[ru1ess]

UR 2: 2/22/2012..... Chicago is moving today, keeping the faith

[boosk]

I havent been following this thread at all, but can anyone tell me if there is a waitlist thread? or if this has already been discussed, how are LOCI's/Updated Resumes handled? email? snail mail?

Thanks

[LawGuy321]

173 / 4.0 / great softs and...waitlisted.

In at Harvard, Held at Columbia, and WL'd at Chicago. Just more proof that these schools are subjective.

[boosk]

173 / 4.0 / great softs and...waitlisted.

In at Harvard, Held at Columbia, and WL'd at Chicago. Just more proof that these schools are subjective.

lol what are these "great softs" I've seen you post about like 3 times now?

[PopTorts13]

173 / 4.0 / great softs and...waitlisted.

In at Harvard, Held at Columbia, and WL'd at Chicago. Just more proof that these schools are subjective.

lol what are these "great softs" I've seen you post about like 3 times now?

+1 Just out of curiosity, not out of cruelty.

My guess is that the prestige of one's undergrad as well as what they studied and have accomplished in a working environment plays an influential role. Top schools genuinely want a diverse student body that will challenge one another and cultivate an environment conducive for growth... makes them look better as well.

I'm fairly certain my waitlists were a product of not writing an essay that said this is why I want to attend X school, rather I chose to write about what I would bring to a program... some schools are more akin to wanting to know why them. As for being rejected from Michigan, I applied deferred and was told that they must be absolutely positive that I would get in the following year and that wasn't the case, nonetheless they gave me an application fee waver for next cycle. In all honesty I won't be needing that, as I've been admitted to Chicago and it is my top place due to growing up not too far from there.

Your reward for bearing with my long post... good luck and I'm glad life isn't always as predictable as a numbers game. I'm confident most of the TLSers will make-due with where they go and be successful.

*Group Hug*

[anewaphorist]

This cycle has been weird for me as well. 4.0/170: WL'd at Harvard, In at Columbia and Chicago (attending, of course), big $ at UVA and UMich, sticker at Duke/Georgetown, absolute silence from UPenn...weirdness.

[Bronck]

My guess is that the prestige of one's undergrad as well as what they studied and have accomplished in a working environment plays an influential role. Top schools genuinely want a diverse student body that will challenge one another and cultivate an environment conducive for growth... makes them look better as well.

Not really

[PopTorts13]

My guess is that the prestige of one's undergrad as well as what they studied and have accomplished in a working environment plays an influential role. Top schools genuinely want a diverse student body that will challenge one another and cultivate an environment conducive for growth... makes them look better as well.

Not really

Yeah. you're right. Admissions probably doesn't care about where you went and what you've done with your life professionally and academically. What was I thinking? They certainly don't take the indiviual into consideration when admitting students. Shoot, take a look at these admissions officers of top schools, none of them say anything about the importance of the individual and their academic/life experiences

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http://www.top-law-schools.com/asha-ran ... rview.html

http://www.top-law-schools.com/ann-perry-interview.html

Edit: Then again, we are all entitled to our own opinions, now aren't we?

[Bronck]

Because the adcomms have no incentive to create a facade of holism, right? Yale and Stanford, sure. But no need to drink the kool aid wrt other schools.

[Nelson]

My guess is that the prestige of one's undergrad as well as what they studied and have accomplished in a working environment plays an influential role. Top schools genuinely want a diverse student body that will challenge one another and cultivate an environment conducive for growth... makes them look better as well.

Not really

It plays some role. At this level of school there are more candidates with the numbers than slots. Work experience, your undergrad major/institution, and other softs must be a factor for differentiating applicants with roughly the same numbers profile. I think that's what Torts was getting at.

[Tiago Splitter]

Poptorts take a look at the NYU graph on LSN. Numbers make up about 95% of the "holistic" equation there. Other selective schools might be more like 85%, but it's still pretty much only about TEH NUMBERS.