U Iowa 2010 App Cycle Forum

[Slimpee]

I received an e-mail from Iowa this morning saying that my app was being held for a second review.

Does anyone have any info about holds at Iowa? Do people normally get rejected or accepted with a held app?

I'd draft a LOCI and send it off quickly. Remember to add to your app, not just re-state it. Schools aren't interested in re-reading the same stuff.

Also, what are your numbers and when did you go complete?

[mshflyer]

yeah, i'm planning on sending an loci. iowa's definately very, very high on my list. My numbers are 161 and 3.4. Went complete on 12/15. have some good softs and strong lor's.

[Prairie]

I received an e-mail from Iowa this morning saying that my app was being held for a second review.

Does anyone have any info about holds at Iowa? Do people normally get rejected or accepted with a held app?

when did your application go complete?

[Slimpee]

yeah, i'm planning on sending an loci. iowa's definately very, very high on my list. My numbers are 161 and 3.4. Went complete on 12/15. have some good softs and strong lor's.

Well, a hold is better than a deny, anyway...I went complete around the same time so I think i'm coming up. I have to stop watching my email like a hawk(eye)...

Good luck w/ your LOCI

[Slimpee]

IN today via email!

My first T30 acceptance! Yay!

[JOThompson]

IN today via email!

My first T30 acceptance! Yay!

Congrats, Slimpee. After seeing you wait patiently for the last few weeks, I imagine this is a huge relief for you.

[Slimpee]

IN today via email!

My first T30 acceptance! Yay!

Congrats, Slimpee. After seeing you wait patiently for the last few weeks, I imagine this is a huge relief for you.

I wouldn't say patiently but waiting, yes...

and thanks!

[tamlyric]

IN today via email!

My first T30 acceptance! Yay!

Word!

[tamlyric]

I should have posted this sooner, but forgot to. A few days ago I call the U of I to see if they would be willing to forgo the placement requirement (Top 1/3) on my full ride. Long story short:


No.


Goodbye Iowa, and good luck to everyone.

Damn.

[CyLaw]

I should have posted this sooner, but forgot to. A few days ago I call the U of I to see if they would be willing to forgo the placement requirement (Top 1/3) on my full ride. Long story short:


No.


Goodbye Iowa, and good luck to everyone.

And Iowa just dropped about 33% in my preference list.

[secant]

I should have posted this sooner, but forgot to. A few days ago I call the U of I to see if they would be willing to forgo the placement requirement (Top 1/3) on my full ride. Long story short:


No.


Goodbye Iowa, and good luck to everyone.

[Snwboarder78]

Received notification via email that I was accepted today. Totally psyched. I really was not expecting it.

[ApexChaser]

Got the email today. It was surprisingly fast turn-around as I submitted less than 4 weeks ago. First decision of 16.

[JOThompson]

To encourage competition and/or wiggle out of scholarship commitments. I would really like to think it's the former for Iowa though.

[tamlyric]

To encourage competition and/or wiggle out of scholarship commitments. I would really like to think it's the former for Iowa though.

I would rather hope it's not the former. Do law students really need encouragement to compete? I would assume that the requirement is there to make sure that putatively top students don't take their scholarship for granted as if they are somehow entitled to it. But maybe that's what you meant by "compete," JO?

Sorry if I misunderstood.

[traehekat]

Congrats to all who were accepted today! Anyone care to share their numbers?

[JOThompson]

To encourage competition and/or wiggle out of scholarship commitments. I would really like to think it's the former for Iowa though.

I would rather hope it's not the former. Do law students really need encouragement to compete? I would assume that the requirement is there to make sure that putatively top students don't take their scholarship for granted as if they are somehow entitled to it. But maybe that's what you meant by "compete," JO?

Sorry if I misunderstood.

You are correct that law students are, by their very nature, competitive people. However, I know a couple scholarship recipients who have grown complacent in law school, possibly because there's no GPA requirement on their merit awards. From the school's perspective, it makes sense to put conditions on money, to encourage students to perform to the fullest of their mental faculties. That's what I meant by extra competition.

Some schools are notorious for putting strict requirements on their scholarships and then stacking scholarship recipients in the same sections. With the curve, some of those students are guaranteed to lose their awards.

Those are the two main motivations to put stipulations on scholarship IMO. The first seems more humane, and that was my only point

[ApexChaser]

Congrats to all who were accepted today! Anyone care to share their numbers?

3.18/167

[tamlyric]

To encourage competition and/or wiggle out of scholarship commitments. I would really like to think it's the former for Iowa though.

I would rather hope it's not the former. Do law students really need encouragement to compete? I would assume that the requirement is there to make sure that putatively top students don't take their scholarship for granted as if they are somehow entitled to it. But maybe that's what you meant by "compete," JO?

Sorry if I misunderstood.

You are correct that law students are, by their very nature, competitive people. However, I know a couple scholarship recipients who have grown complacent in law school, possibly because there's no GPA requirement on their merit awards. From the school's perspective, it makes sense to put conditions on money, to encourage students to perform to the fullest of their mental faculties. That's what I meant by extra competition.

Some schools are notorious for putting strict requirements on their scholarships and then stacking scholarship recipients in the same sections. With the curve, some of those students are guaranteed to lose their awards.

Those are the two main motivations to put stipulations on scholarship IMO. The first seems more humane, and that was my only point

Ha! So we are in complete agreement. My bad.

[JOThompson]

To encourage competition and/or wiggle out of scholarship commitments. I would really like to think it's the former for Iowa though.

I would rather hope it's not the former. Do law students really need encouragement to compete? I would assume that the requirement is there to make sure that putatively top students don't take their scholarship for granted as if they are somehow entitled to it. But maybe that's what you meant by "compete," JO?

Sorry if I misunderstood.

You are correct that law students are, by their very nature, competitive people. However, I know a couple scholarship recipients who have grown complacent in law school, possibly because there's no GPA requirement on their merit awards. From the school's perspective, it makes sense to put conditions on money, to encourage students to perform to the fullest of their mental faculties. That's what I meant by extra competition.

Some schools are notorious for putting strict requirements on their scholarships and then stacking scholarship recipients in the same sections. With the curve, some of those students are guaranteed to lose their awards.

Those are the two main motivations to put stipulations on scholarship IMO. The first seems more humane, and that was my only point

Ha! So we are in complete agreement. My bad.

My fault for being vague
So does it look like you'll be attending Iowa?

[Snwboarder78]

Congrats to all who were accepted today! Anyone care to share their numbers?

3.18/167

3.9/159

[Slimpee]

So in my excitement I replied to the email from Dean Jones...and included a typo ("be" instead of "being").

Way to start off strong, Slimpee!

[webbylu87]

Anyone promised partial scholarship info get anything this week?I was in the 12/8 batch so I'm hoping next week is lucky.

[gatorlion]

I was informed of an initial review on 12/4 and have yet to hear back regarding a second review. Anyone else in this boat?

[robin600]

Called the admissions office, no more schollys are being handed out. FML. now I really don't know what I'm going to do next year...