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sabanist wrote:Got the job offer I've been holding my breath for this morning, and I'm going to see my favorite movie ever, Jurassic Park, in imax tonight.
Come on Yale, bring on the Triple Crown and give me the best day ever

(receives ding 5 minutes after posting this)

polareagle wrote: Congrats! Let's hope it's a positive day for all of us waiters!

titansfan wrote: +1, you have now diverted me from working to looking up jurassic park imax showings. best movie ever.

az21833 wrote:crickets today but they said weds thurs and fri all right

Eli wrote:Surprised they haven't tweeted at least to say they're back online.

@YaleLawSch wrote: Power restored to the Law School; building has reopened.

eph wrote:

wert3813 wrote:

edamame wrote:Omg, just got in!

174 / 4.13. Submitted on 2/5, complete on 2/15.


Lol. Well played. Edamame are you a URM?

Yale is least diverse of the T3 and that's ok, each school has a different focus. But are you suggesting that you have to be above the medians to get in as a urm. Maybe that's how they do it.

siredwrdross wrote: He was definitely not suggesting that. Sometimes, clusters of admits tend to have a greater or lesser number of URMs or non-URMs. In those cases, you can compare the two to get a very vague idea of where the bar is for each group.

eph wrote:Not sure what the ? means. Your comment made me think. If you go on LSN and check the urm admits at Stanford and Harvard you get what you would expect, better than average outcomes. If you check Yale it is 1 accept and 21 rejects. Sorry, I thought you were making a point that on a situation that seems odd. My bad.

eph wrote:Not sure what the ? means. Your comment made me think. If you go on LSN and check the urm admits at Stanford and Harvard you get what you would expect, better than average outcomes. If you check Yale it is 1 accept and 21 rejects. Sorry, I thought you were making a point that on a situation that seems odd. My bad.

Yukos wrote:

az21833 wrote:crickets today but they said weds thurs and fri all right

First TLS acceptance was 2:45 yesterday, so we have plenty of time to freak out.

Wormfather wrote:I think that URMs often think that they get accepted to non HYS schools because of their softs or their "perfect" applications when in fact its mostly a numbers game. Maybe adcoms will take that stuff into effect but if you get into Columbia as a URM with a 160/3.8 it isnt probably because they loved your application. Rather they needed someone with your demographics and you were the best still available. You may be below their 25% but what are they going to do, take the 152/3.6 applicant?

Why do I say this? Because it is really hard to put together a perfect application. One that really turns heads, shows academic prowess but doenst come off as a cocky know it all. Or to tell a touching story without looking like you're hamming it up.

Yet at Yale, this is the floor.

For me, with my numbers, as a AA you would think I would be a lock. Also my application was really good, except I had a C&F issue from when I was younger. That I had to email YLS after I submitted my application to amend something about the incident probably made me look more than forthcoming (it was an honest mistake though). Still Yale has no need to extend anyone the benefit of the doubt, be it a C&F issue, a recommendation where the professor miss-worded something, a misplaced comma, or even a B- in a class that they think is critical for a budding young lawyer.

There's just so many of us and so few spots, one misstep is all it really takes. I'm sure Asha is a nice enough person, but the process probably demands a sense of ruthlessness that's hard for us to stomach. In the end, I'm sure that every applicant admitted and waitlisted is a candidate that they are absolutely sure about.

/talkingoutofmyass

az21833 wrote:well put by Worm. as usual.

az21833 wrote:well put by Worm. as usual.

HopefulBulldog wrote:

Yukos wrote:

az21833 wrote:crickets today but they said weds thurs and fri all right

First TLS acceptance was 2:45 yesterday, so we have plenty of time to freak out.

Anyone else obsessively refreshing gmail today? It'll be a relief when this three-day period is over.

bluecouch wrote:I guess no news from TLS folk? No emails? Just deafening silence?

bluecouch wrote:I guess no news from TLS folk? No emails? Just deafening silence?

HopefulBulldog wrote:

bluecouch wrote:I guess no news from TLS folk? No emails? Just deafening silence?

Cue the Simon and Garfunkel

callmemaybe84 wrote:

HopefulBulldog wrote:

bluecouch wrote:I guess no news from TLS folk? No emails? Just deafening silence?

Cue the Simon and Garfunkel

Literally was finding this as you posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q

callmemaybe84 wrote:

HopefulBulldog wrote:

bluecouch wrote:I guess no news from TLS folk? No emails? Just deafening silence?

Cue the Simon and Garfunkel

Literally was finding this as you posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q

Yukos wrote:New email. Could it be? Don't get your hopes up.

I open Gmail and scan the email address. First I see "lawinfo." Heart rate increases rapidly. Not only that, "lawinfo@yu.edu." Well people don't really abbreviate Yale as "YU" but that WOULD stand for Yale University.

I freak out for a second before I read the subject: "Cardozo Law - There's Still Time to Apply."