Top Law Schools

bryntax wrote:i think my DS has more weight in places like iowa and virginia... im guessing being LGBT in NYC isnt shocking or diverse

bryntax wrote:i think my DS has more weight in places like iowa and virginia... im guessing being LGBT in NYC isnt shocking or diverse

fitzgerald86 wrote:So many LGTB Fordham hopefuls posting in recent days

I hope I'll be seeing you at OUTLaw meetings . . .

Although you're right . . . probably should have written my diversity statement on being a Red Sox fan.

fitzgerald86 wrote:Although you're right . . . probably should have written my diversity statement on being a Red Sox fan.

even2flow wrote:

fitzgerald86 wrote:Although you're right . . . probably should have written my diversity statement on being a Red Sox fan.

That may just send you right to the reject pile for that. Then they'd justify it by saying you sound like you're "entitled"

chutzpah wrote:So I just got into Northwestern (yay!). I was mentally prepared to have to choose between DC and NY, and now Chicago is in the running. Any current or former Chicago-ers care to comment about the city?

chutzpah wrote:So I just got into Northwestern (yay!). I was mentally prepared to have to choose between DC and NY, and now Chicago is in the running. Any current or former Chicago-ers care to comment about the city?

sibley wrote:

bryntax wrote:i had a dream just now that i was telling someone about how my dreams sometimes come true.

and then i was waitlisted at fordham.

... but i woke up and i wasnt. yet.

=) props to hanging on! always a success this cycle, it seems.

I'm thinking about what OS said. I don't think my PS seemed entitled. I think I did come across that I'm confident in my ability to succeed, so hopefully they didn't see that as entitled... but the majority of the piece just talked about how this international student inspired me by overcoming a huge obstacle of law, family safety, and immigration in a very smart and legal-esque way. I'm not sure how anyone could think that I could think I'm entitled, though, with my 3.34.... maybe when I submit my LOCI I'll add a diversity statement, if I didn't originally.

It's going to say I'm broken. I'm falling apart! I was so happy because I went to the doc yesterday and she prescribed me new meds to try to get rid of this chronic and backwards psychosomatic pain, one of those with a 'controlled substance' label, but there's a warning about drowsiness... I don't feel drowsy, but I feel dizzy, and the way that you feel after you've been reading a novel for a long time, you know that feeling? Kind of oblivious to the world... Meh.

H. E. Pennypacker wrote:Hey Fitzy, this was from my Futures at Fenway game back in 08. Jealous?


--ImageRemoved--

chutzpah wrote:So I just got into Northwestern (yay!). I was mentally prepared to have to choose between DC and NY, and now Chicago is in the running. Any current or former Chicago-ers care to comment about the city?

Kilpatrick wrote:Is Fordham known as being unfriendly to splitters? A 3.34 is over their 25th%. Is it really an automatic waitlist?

OperaSoprano wrote:

sibley wrote:

bryntax wrote:i had a dream just now that i was telling someone about how my dreams sometimes come true.

and then i was waitlisted at fordham.

... but i woke up and i wasnt. yet.

=) props to hanging on! always a success this cycle, it seems.

I'm thinking about what OS said. I don't think my PS seemed entitled. I think I did come across that I'm confident in my ability to succeed, so hopefully they didn't see that as entitled... but the majority of the piece just talked about how this international student inspired me by overcoming a huge obstacle of law, family safety, and immigration in a very smart and legal-esque way. I'm not sure how anyone could think that I could think I'm entitled, though, with my 3.34.... maybe when I submit my LOCI I'll add a diversity statement, if I didn't originally.

It's going to say I'm broken. I'm falling apart! I was so happy because I went to the doc yesterday and she prescribed me new meds to try to get rid of this chronic and backwards psychosomatic pain, one of those with a 'controlled substance' label, but there's a warning about drowsiness... I don't feel drowsy, but I feel dizzy, and the way that you feel after you've been reading a novel for a long time, you know that feeling? Kind of oblivious to the world... Meh.

Numbers, in your case. A 3.34 is almost a guaranteed WL, absent URM status, even with a 168+.

To address the LGBT comments: Fordham is a very gay friendly school. There are at least six people in my section who are out (who have specifically told me), and everyone is close to everyone else. I don't really think about which of my friends are gay, because they are my friends, and I adore them. My first UG was in a conservative city in the south, and things were very different there.

labourer wrote:reading that Fordham makes admissions decisions based on soft factors makes me wonder - is it the same for merti aid? or does the money generally go to people with high numbers?

labourer wrote:reading that Fordham makes admissions decisions based on soft factors makes me wonder - is it the same for merti aid? or does the money generally go to people with high numbers?

OperaSoprano wrote:

labourer wrote:reading that Fordham makes admissions decisions based on soft factors makes me wonder - is it the same for merti aid? or does the money generally go to people with high numbers?

Merit aid is normally about numbers, though admissions decisions, thank goodness, are slightly more holistic.

fitzgerald86 wrote:

OperaSoprano wrote:

sibley wrote:

bryntax wrote:i had a dream just now that i was telling someone about how my dreams sometimes come true.

and then i was waitlisted at fordham.

... but i woke up and i wasnt. yet.

=) props to hanging on! always a success this cycle, it seems.

I'm thinking about what OS said. I don't think my PS seemed entitled. I think I did come across that I'm confident in my ability to succeed, so hopefully they didn't see that as entitled... but the majority of the piece just talked about how this international student inspired me by overcoming a huge obstacle of law, family safety, and immigration in a very smart and legal-esque way. I'm not sure how anyone could think that I could think I'm entitled, though, with my 3.34.... maybe when I submit my LOCI I'll add a diversity statement, if I didn't originally.

It's going to say I'm broken. I'm falling apart! I was so happy because I went to the doc yesterday and she prescribed me new meds to try to get rid of this chronic and backwards psychosomatic pain, one of those with a 'controlled substance' label, but there's a warning about drowsiness... I don't feel drowsy, but I feel dizzy, and the way that you feel after you've been reading a novel for a long time, you know that feeling? Kind of oblivious to the world... Meh.

Numbers, in your case. A 3.34 is almost a guaranteed WL, absent URM status, even with a 168+.

To address the LGBT comments: Fordham is a very gay friendly school. There are at least six people in my section who are out (who have specifically told me), and everyone is close to everyone else. I don't really think about which of my friends are gay, because they are my friends, and I adore them. My first UG was in a conservative city in the south, and things were very different there.

I've always had the impression that Fordham is a gay-friendly school. I attended Jesuit schools for high school and college, and I often had people ask me if the schools' Catholic backgrounds made their environments unwelcoming for LGTB students. Quite the opposite! The Jesuits are such a wonderful order; they've always been very open-minded and forward-thinking, as well as inclusive.

Truth be told, the religious background isn't often noticeable (for better or worse, depending on your viewpoint) at these Jesuit schools, unless you purposefully seek it out. But, after eight years of Jesuit education, I am still drawn by the notion of being "Men and Women for Others," which I think is still emphasized at these schools, in both a religious and nonreligious context.

hannah87 wrote:

phonepro wrote:somone please help!!

Fordham no money vs. Brooklyn full ride.

I havent even heard from Fordham re: scholarship, but I assume I wont get one.

don't assume! i haven't heard about a scholarship yet, either, but the admissions officer i spoke to told me they've "hardly made any scholarship offers yet."

labourer wrote:

OperaSoprano wrote:

labourer wrote:reading that Fordham makes admissions decisions based on soft factors makes me wonder - is it the same for merti aid? or does the money generally go to people with high numbers?

Merit aid is normally about numbers, though admissions decisions, thank goodness, are slightly more holistic.

thanks - that's kind of what i was afraid of. i've been admitted with, what i'm coming to learn on this site, pretty low numbers for a non-urm. but now i'm not sure i could afford it (and i'm debt averse as i want a career in public interest).