Yes. And I would say yes.applemaroon wrote:So Harvard sends a confirmation email the day before your JS1? Should we call/email to confirm if we don't get such reminder?
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I had two interviews (eye roll) set up, this is how the email structure worked for meapplemaroon wrote:So Harvard sends a confirmation email the day before your JS1? Should we call/email to confirm if we don't get such reminder?
Schedule 1/31 (got immediate email)
Confirmed by HLS 2/5
Reminder 2/13
Interview fake out 2/14
Re-Schedule 2/14 (no immediate email)
Confirmed by HLS 2/15
Reminder 2/15
Interview 2/19
If you haven't received confirmation by the day before, I'd call
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I just spent some time in Chicago c/o 2016 Applicants....
Sort of alarming - much less humor, much more......I'm not even sure what to call it.
Yikes.
Sort of alarming - much less humor, much more......I'm not even sure what to call it.
Yikes.
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Lar-ties wrote:I just spent some time in Chicago c/o 2016 Applicants....
Sort of alarming - much less humor, much more......I'm not even sure what to call it.
Yikes.
Ouch. Too harsh.
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Stereotyping is bad, mmkay?Lar-ties wrote:I just spent some time in Chicago c/o 2016 Applicants....
Sort of alarming - much less humor, much more......I'm not even sure what to call it.
Yikes.
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I don't get it. Is there a stereotype about UChicago that aligns with my comment?MacB wrote:Stereotyping is bad, mmkay?Lar-ties wrote:I just spent some time in Chicago c/o 2016 Applicants....
Sort of alarming - much less humor, much more......I'm not even sure what to call it.
Yikes.
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Chicago Law- "Where the fun comes to die."Lar-ties wrote:I don't get it. Is there a stereotype about UChicago that aligns with my comment?MacB wrote:Stereotyping is bad, mmkay?Lar-ties wrote:I just spent some time in Chicago c/o 2016 Applicants....
Sort of alarming - much less humor, much more......I'm not even sure what to call it.
Yikes.
I have heard that more than once on these forums from others.
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After talking to Cornell, I have some new conventional wisdom for TLS: never, EVER let on that you were homeschooled.
Evidently 175/4.0 is overshadowed by the negative stereotype of homeschooling.
Evidently 175/4.0 is overshadowed by the negative stereotype of homeschooling.
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whoooaaaa....didn't see that coming. Seems pretty narrow-minded.TripTrip wrote:After talking to Cornell, I have some new conventional wisdom for TLS: never, EVER let on that you were homeschooled.
Evidently 175/4.0 is overshadowed by the negative stereotype of homeschooling.
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I thought it applied to the whole university. My undergrad adviser, who received a doctorate from Chicago, said it was "a soulless institution."
Disclaimer: Not my personal opinion. It seems like a cool school.
Disclaimer: Not my personal opinion. It seems like a cool school.
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Wow, that is stunning Trip
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Not to go on a rant....but if HS is supposed to prepare you for college, and you got a 4.0 then a) your home schooling was obviously up to snuff and b) your HS should be moot given that your performance at the undergraduate level, which is what actually matters. That annoys me.
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So someone just posted an accept to LSN like 10 minutes ago....didn't include the date....
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1. Mega props on the stats.TripTrip wrote:After talking to Cornell, I have some new conventional wisdom for TLS: never, EVER let on that you were homeschooled.
Evidently 175/4.0 is overshadowed by the negative stereotype of homeschooling.
2. Not sure if this is entirely true, though. First, because it's impossible to avoid letting on since some applications want specifics about your high school that I found impossible to provide without spilling the beans. Second, because I actually mentioned this in my PS and have had a reasonably successful cycle. Now, my background, including the homeschooling stereotype, became a central feature of my JS1, so it may end up being a problem as far as HLS is concerned. It doesn't seem to be an all-out negative across the board.
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This. And that 175? smhph5354a wrote:Not to go on a rant....but if HS is supposed to prepare you for college, and you got a 4.0 then a) your home schooling was obviously up to snuff and b) your HS should be moot given that your performance at the undergraduate level, which is what actually matters. That annoys me.
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Oh, give us folks in the Chicago thread a break. We don't have the luxury of constant JS2 speculation since decisions come in batches, nor the total resigned hopelessness that leads to humor in the SLS thread. We're just doing the best we can over there!applemaroon wrote:Lar-ties wrote:I just spent some time in Chicago c/o 2016 Applicants....
Sort of alarming - much less humor, much more......I'm not even sure what to call it.
Yikes.
Ouch. Too harsh.
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I totally agree.ph5354a wrote:Not to go on a rant....but if HS is supposed to prepare you for college, and you got a 4.0 then a) your home schooling was obviously up to snuff and b) your HS should be moot given that your performance at the undergraduate level, which is what actually matters. That annoys me.
Sorry bluecouch!bluecouch wrote:Oh, give us folks in the Chicago thread a break. We don't have the luxury of constant JS2 speculation since decisions come in batches, nor the total resigned hopelessness that leads to humor in the SLS thread. We're just doing the best we can over there!
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No, it's not universal. I have had mixed success, a la full rides at UMN and UCLA.siredwrdross wrote:2. Not sure if this is entirely true, though. First, because it's impossible to avoid letting on since some applications want specifics about your high school that I found impossible to provide without spilling the beans. Second, because I actually mentioned this in my PS and have had a reasonably successful cycle. Now, my background, including the homeschooling stereotype, became a central feature of my JS1, so it may end up being a problem as far as HLS is concerned. It doesn't seem to be an all-out negative across the board.
But that's the point; it's mixed, which makes it risky. Obviously it hasn't worked out for me everywhere (2Q of the WL at Berk, held at H, etc.). I talked about it briefly in my PS, but perhaps I should have talked more about how it helped me become independent in my educational experience.
I think, for my personal application, this may have been the other side of the issue. I was asked why, if I was so academically inclined, I was a Criminal Justice major at a lowly state university. I had a good answer for the interview, but that obviously was not clear in my application.ph5354a wrote:Not to go on a rant....but if HS is supposed to prepare you for college, and you got a 4.0 then a) your home schooling was obviously up to snuff and b) your HS should be moot given that your performance at the undergraduate level, which is what actually matters. That annoys me.
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If you want to see a Chicago thread that had some fun, check out the Chicago admitted students thread from c/o 2014.bluecouch wrote:Oh, give us folks in the Chicago thread a break. We don't have the luxury of constant JS2 speculation since decisions come in batches, nor the total resigned hopelessness that leads to humor in the SLS thread. We're just doing the best we can over there!applemaroon wrote:Lar-ties wrote:I just spent some time in Chicago c/o 2016 Applicants....
Sort of alarming - much less humor, much more......I'm not even sure what to call it.
Yikes.
Ouch. Too harsh.
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Trip, I would kill for a look at the PDF of your app. Yours is such an interesting case.
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That's fair. I chose to go ahead and highlight it because I felt like I couldn't complete many of my applications without tacitly admitting it. It is a conundrum, though. As others have noted, it's especially irritating that it should serve as an impediment to people, like yourself, who are obviously very intelligent and successful in "traditional" classroom settings.TripTrip wrote: No, it's not universal. I have had mixed success, a la full rides at UMN and UCLA.
But that's the point; it's mixed, which makes it risky. Obviously it hasn't worked out for me everywhere (2Q of the WL at Berk, held at H, etc.). I talked about it briefly in my PS, but perhaps I should have talked more about how it helped me become independent in my educational experience.
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Team, would I be accurate in saying: at least as reflected on Law School Numbers graphs, Harvard, Stanford and Yale have not sent out many decisions at all?
Harvard - http://harvard.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213
Stanford - http://stanford.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213
Yale - http://yale.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213
Compare especially to Columbia (http://columbia.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213) and NYU (http://nyu.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213). Part of this is attributable to YHS lower number of applications, but would I be totally off-base to conclude that YHS still has a good number of decisions to make? FWIW I'm a NYU/Columbia/UVa/Penn hopeful, perhaps overly optimistically thinking that as YHS gives out more acceptances, spots will open up lower in the T14.
Harvard - http://harvard.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213
Stanford - http://stanford.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213
Yale - http://yale.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213
Compare especially to Columbia (http://columbia.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213) and NYU (http://nyu.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213). Part of this is attributable to YHS lower number of applications, but would I be totally off-base to conclude that YHS still has a good number of decisions to make? FWIW I'm a NYU/Columbia/UVa/Penn hopeful, perhaps overly optimistically thinking that as YHS gives out more acceptances, spots will open up lower in the T14.
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Not really... look at Regulus' spreadsheet about how many usually go out on LSN, the %s, and how many have gone out this year.sc-123 wrote:Team, would I be accurate in saying: at least as reflected on Law School Numbers graphs, Harvard, Stanford and Yale have not sent out many decisions at all?
Harvard - http://harvard.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213
Stanford - http://stanford.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213
Yale - http://yale.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213
Compare especially to Columbia (http://columbia.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213) and NYU (http://nyu.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213). Part of this is attributable to YHS lower number of applications, but would I be totally off-base to conclude that YHS still has a good number of decisions to make? FWIW I'm a NYU/Columbia/UVa/Penn hopeful, perhaps overly optimistically thinking that as YHS gives out more acceptances, spots will open up lower in the T14.
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Regulus is a boss.ManOfTheMinute wrote:Not really... look at Regulus' spreadsheet about how many usually go out on LSN, the %s, and how many have gone out this year.sc-123 wrote:Team, would I be accurate in saying: at least as reflected on Law School Numbers graphs, Harvard, Stanford and Yale have not sent out many decisions at all?
Harvard - http://harvard.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213
Stanford - http://stanford.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213
Yale - http://yale.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213
Compare especially to Columbia (http://columbia.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213) and NYU (http://nyu.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1213). Part of this is attributable to YHS lower number of applications, but would I be totally off-base to conclude that YHS still has a good number of decisions to make? FWIW I'm a NYU/Columbia/UVa/Penn hopeful, perhaps overly optimistically thinking that as YHS gives out more acceptances, spots will open up lower in the T14.
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