Harvard, C/O 2017, Applicants Thread (2013-2014)

[sandclock]

Does anybody know how many people or what percentage of the total have been accepted until now?

We are extremely uninformed, but we've speculated that about 300 people have been accepted out of a total of 800 that will be accepted. That means about 38% of the class has been filled up.

Closer to 860ish will be accepted. Not that it matters all that much, I just want to send out as much hope as possible lol .

Thanks. I'm a late applier so now knowing the numbers seems way more hopeful. Hope there's good news for everyone

[Mort_the_Tort]

¿ tomorrow ?

[IrishJew]

¿ tomorrow ?

I certainly hope so. Mort, what's your status anyway, did you have a JS1 and are awaiting JS2?

[chneyo]

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[pseu]

¿ tomorrow ?

Definitely.

Source: blind speculation and excessive optimism

[esrom55]

LSAC down for anyone else? I try to log in and get "Server is too busy". It's been that way for about an hour.

[nothingtosee]

Have any complete 12/18 or later gotten js1?

[malleus discentium]

Have any complete 12/18 or later gotten js1?

Complete 12/18, no JS1

[koalacity]

Have any complete 12/18 or later gotten js1?

Complete 12/18, no JS1

12/16 here. I'm pretty sure there was one person complete around 12/18 who reported getting a JS1, but I haven't seen any others.

[malleus discentium]

Have any complete 12/18 or later gotten js1?

Complete 12/18, no JS1

12/16 here. I'm pretty sure there was one person complete around 12/18 who reported getting a JS1, but I haven't seen any others.

You haven't gotten a JS1 yet with your numbers? That makes me much less anxious.

[koalacity]

You haven't gotten a JS1 yet with your numbers? That makes me much less anxious.

I mean, I think you should be feeling pretty anxious with your 175/3.9. Looks like Harvard hardly ever accepts applicants with those numbers

[drawstring]

So, acceptances and/or dings tomorrow?

[malleus discentium]

So, acceptances and/or dings tomorrow?

The official name of a ding is "JSNo", just in case that's what we see tomorrow

[drawstring]

Now people can say "oh JsNo! when they get dat email

[lawschool22]

So, acceptances and/or dings tomorrow?

The official name of a ding is "JSNo", just in case that's what we see tomorrow

Glad to see it is catching on haha...hopefully there will be little need to use this new term.

[Chooch51]

Some folks mentioned earlier that JS2 calls often start around 3pm. Is that a hard and fast rule or just a general trend?

[FuriousDuck]

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[hwannabe1234]

Third time taker.

Do you know Harvard really evaluates based on the highest???..

[IrishJew]

Third time taker.

Do you know Harvard really evaluates based on the highest???..

There was some discussion about this the other day. The official TLS page on retaking (found here: http://www.top-law-schools.com/retaking-the-lsat.html) has a table which claims Harvard takes the average of LSATs. I presume the source of this is a survey of the law schools. However someone (lawschool22?) mentioned that the anecdotal evidence seems to suggest that many of these schools actually take the highest. I don't have any statistics on that, but that's the word on the street.

FWIW, IIR, the schools are only required to consider highest LSATs on their disclosures, which in turn influence the USNWR rankings etc. So if schools are interested in gaming the rankings, the top LSAT is the only one they need to consider.

[lawschool22]

Third time taker.

Do you know Harvard really evaluates based on the highest???..

By all anecdotal evidence we have, they only take the highest. As Irish points out, that is all that is reported to USNews.

[IrishJew]

Third time taker.

Do you know Harvard really evaluates based on the highest???..

What kind of numbers are you looking at? Are we talking about huge jumps or just a steady climb up?

[hwannabe1234]

Third time taker.

Do you know Harvard really evaluates based on the highest???..

What kind of numbers are you looking at? Are we talking about huge jumps or just a steady climb up?

I have one high 150s (1st time) and high 160s (2nd), and 174(third take)

I have around 75% gpa and K-JD

[lawschool22]

Third time taker.

Do you know Harvard really evaluates based on the highest???..

What kind of numbers are you looking at? Are we talking about huge jumps or just a steady climb up?

I have one high 150s (1st time) and high 160s (2nd), and 174(third take)

I have around 75% gpa and K-JD

You'll be fine. There are plenty of examples of TLS'ers with similar trajectories whose cycles indicate that HLS only ultimately cares about the top score.

[barrelofmonkeys]

I have one high 150s (1st time) and high 160s (2nd), and 174(third take)

I have around 75% gpa and K-JD

You managed to take the LSAT three times while in college?
I'm impressed by that.

[hwannabe1234]

I have one high 150s (1st time) and high 160s (2nd), and 174(third take)

I have around 75% gpa and K-JD

You managed to take the LSAT three times while in college?
I'm impressed by that.

Yes. it was tough times.