when the status is changed to "decision rendered," are you notified via email of the status change?

Need to hear from them before the 4/15 seat deposits!

No notification via email, but it should say at the top of the status checker if you got in once the decision has been rendered.

Also, the seat deposit due date for me was May 1st for the first deposit.

Just went from in review 10/xx/2011 to in committee 4/10/2012... Too bad I already committed somewhere else but ill take my decision since I payed the application fee.

Admitted yesterday. Packet in the mail, guys did $$ come in the initial packet?

Thanks,

T

I didn't pay my initial deposit on April 2 because I'm considering other schools but I received an email last week stating that SCU will go over my file again and offer more financial aid and has extended my deposit due date to April 27. Had anyone else received this email and have you been awarded a significant amount of $$ more? I would consider SCU if they offered a good amount more money.

I wonder when/if I'll ever hear anything from Santa Clara...I went complete 11/21, In Committee 12/20, held for second review in January, went back to In Committee 3/17. Nothing yet...

Weird stuff going on.. I have been in committee since 2/7 and then the date changed to 4/14... a Saturday. Has anyone gotten a decision after the dates have changed?

I'm seriously considering SCU now since my family lives up there. I can live with them for free. I'm studying to retake the LSAT in June and I was going to reapply to USD but I'm a bit over this applying process...

Mine changed on 4/14 then it said admitted later that day.

Same thing happened to me.

Think these new updates are a good thing. I updated on 4/3 from being in committee 11/16 and was accepted on 4/13.

So hopefully good news soon

Has anyone committed to SCU yet? Funny thing is I was born and raised in Santa Clara but have never visited the campus. Would like to hear if anyone has visited and their thoughts.

Would a Santa Clara degree be beneficial in San Diego if I wanted to work here in the future? Not talking about biglaw or anything... I want to work at a company in-house as legal counsel

You would have a better chance with biglaw than in-house counsel. In-house counsel jobs are extremely rare and usually only come to people with years of post-law school experience. And to be honest, it will be hard to land ANY legal job with a Santa Clara JD, let alone a job in SD, where there are not many legal jobs to begin with. Santa Clara Law has seriously depressing employment statistics...you should really only go if you get a substantial amount of money or plan to work in the immediate area. If you have an advanced science/technical degree, and are interested in IP, then it may also be a good school if you can pull of a good class ranking and/or network well.

In short, no, a Santa Clara JD will NOT be beneficial to you in SD at all.

If you plan on going to SCU then you should expect to be in the Bay Area for a few years (maybe your entire life?). So, I would not recommend going to SCU if you seriously plan on going to San Diego in the near future. This is the case for many law schools, not just SCU. I have a lot of friends who went down to Loyola/USD/Pepp with plans on coming back north and were not able to. Also as the above poster stated, SD is a tiny legal market, and even USD kids have a very hard time finding jobs there.

the campus: it is a nice small campus. however, the law school buildings are really outdated. I was told that there are plansfor a new law building in teh future, but i'm not sure if it'll be in the next 3 years though. The campus, as a whole, is beautiful. they have a brand new "undergrad" library which is pretty modern. The student who gave me a tour told me that most of his classmates study there instead of the law library, which i can see happening since it is a whole lot nicer and right next to the law buildings.

Hmm.. thanks for the insight. Well, I have family there and I wouldn't mind living there. I just have to convince my BF to move up north from SD where he is already established. He said he could see himself in the bay in the future so I may take the plunge. I was officially admitted via status checker yesterday.

Still debating on whether to retake in June and reapply to USD and SCU as a back-up this Oct.

Has anyone applied to SCU twice in a row and gotten admitted twice?

Anyone commit to attend for sure yet?

It's weird how around this time last cycle the Santa Clara thread had over 30 pages! Now it's deaddddd

The fact that they sent out a "Hey guys, just kidding about the deposit deadline. Oh, and if you want more money just let us know" Email pretty much says it all.

Oh I never got that email. Lame.

Don't forget that in the most recent employment stats, only 14% of Santa Clara grads were employed as full-time practicing attorneys =(

Go to lawschooltransparency.com and look at the NLP Form for Santa Clara Law. It's a scary reality for anyone considering SCU....almost 50% in part-time jobs, and another 18% unemployed.

Super long wait but I'm in FT as of 4/17 on status tracker. No package in the mail yet.

There's got to be an error in that data... 14% is practically worse than every other school in the nation. I briefly looked at most of the TTT schools for kicks to see what numbers they were putting up and they all report 40-50% FT legal. 14% makes absolutely no sense at all even for a school barely in the T2...
I'd take that data with a grain of salt.

congrats!!! are you thinking of attending?

Withdrew from school and consideration for the full-tuition scholarship. Really hoping this helps someone else out.

Withdrawing this week. Hope someone else who is awesome gets my money and spot. I hope is name is Maximilian.

lol...did you see the NALP report? The data is even consistent with what Santa Clara Law reports on their own website, so there is nothing that should lead you to believe there is a mistake. Overall, 60% of students ended up in part-time positions, only 17% employed full time (13% of which were actually attorneys) and then the remaining 20% unemployed.

Anyways, I think you basically explained to yourself why SCU is a waste of 3 years.

Admitted full-time today after being in committee 5 different times