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GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by chinagator » Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:04 pm

So there is evidently 3 types of waitlists:

1. Regular WL
2. Preferred WL
3. "Preferred" Preferred WL

Anyone have any idea about the odds of acceptance are off of these lists?

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by rockthelaw » Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:09 pm

chinagator wrote:So there is evidently 3 types of waitlists:

1. Regular WL
2. Preferred WL
3. "Preferred" Preferred WL

Anyone have any idea about the odds of acceptance are off of these lists?
Anyone who is on the "'preferred' preferred waitlist": What did your notification from GULC say?

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by chinagator » Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:12 pm

"The Committee on Admissions has reviewed your application and has placed your name within a special group on our Preferred Waiting List. Generally, applicants on the Preferred Waiting List are those that we would like very much to include in our first-year class. However, due to an unprecedented volume of highly qualified applicants, the Committee cannot extend as many offers as it wishes. As a result, the Committee has been forced to make some very tough decisions, and your application was especially difficult. The Committee has designated you as part of a small select group within the Preferred Waiting List that will be given priority as spaces open up in the entering class."

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by rockthelaw » Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:13 pm

chinagator wrote:"The Committee on Admissions has reviewed your application and has placed your name within a special group on our Preferred Waiting List. Generally, applicants on the Preferred Waiting List are those that we would like very much to include in our first-year class. However, due to an unprecedented volume of highly qualified applicants, the Committee cannot extend as many offers as it wishes. As a result, the Committee has been forced to make some very tough decisions, and your application was especially difficult. The Committee has designated you as part of a small select group within the Preferred Waiting List that will be given priority as spaces open up in the entering class."
Thanks. That makes sense. Makes my preferred waitlist status seem less cool, though :(

Here's hoping it works out for all of us!

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by DanInALionsDen » Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:14 pm

I just got WL'ed at GULC, on the "preferred" preferred waitlist. I have to say I'm pretty surprised. 3.77 GPA with a 171 LSAT... I don't want to play to my own ego by asking if it's a YP, but...

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by Holly Golightly » Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:49 pm

Special preferred WL here. Not YP, I'm a splitter...

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Post by doopwooper » Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:57 pm

just regular "preferred" WL here. I have no idea what that means in terms of chances though

Kind of bothers me that they say its "not ranked" but have these specific hierarchical groups they inform you of.

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by klk » Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:09 pm

Yeah, they could save everyone a lot of grief and just rank it and give you a number... since that's essentially what they're doing anyways.

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by existenz » Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:33 pm

I'm also in the super-special elite waitlist reserve backup group.

Ultimately I think schools take the people they really want to take, so I'm skeptical of YP talk. My numbers aren't stellar 171/3.6 so I figure they didn't like my softs or something. Curious to see how this plays out though.

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by Holly Golightly » Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:36 pm

I'm actually really bummed I didn't get in, and I'm going to be trying hard to get off of this WL. My GPA sucks, but I have a decent LSAT and good softs. Please love me, GULC. :(

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by beef wellington » Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:47 pm

Another splitter in the super special double secret priority preferred waitlist. Told them I'd attend if they let me in.

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by Encyclopedia Brown » Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:05 pm

I'm on the standard preferred waitlist. GULC's one of my top two choices at this point, so I'd reaaally like to get picked off the WL. Visiting next week, following up with what I hope will be a strong LOCI. I'm guessing I won't be hearing anything for a few months, though.

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by Flanker1067 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:11 pm

Holly Golightly wrote:I'm actually really bummed I didn't get in, and I'm going to be trying hard to get off of this WL. My GPA sucks, but I have a decent LSAT and good softs. Please love me, GULC. :(
Don't give up. It seems like many different kinds of people(and numbers) have been put on the WL this year. Personally, I think they may have mismanaged the increased applicant volume this year and basically cannot extend further acceptances till they recieve more responses. It is still to early to tell how many of those waitlisted will go.

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by mrm2083 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:06 pm

What do the mean by the update my march 22nd thing for the preferred preferred wait list?

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by thickfreakness » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:10 pm

mrm2083 wrote:What do the mean by the update my march 22nd thing for the preferred preferred wait list?

Probably that they'll give you an update on your application by then :wink:

My guess is that you'll get in, get put on the real waitlist, or get dinged (though I doubt they'd ding anyone, probably just WL as a soft rejection).

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by autarkh » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:36 pm

It seems like this preferred preferred waitlist is the equivalent of getting held somewhere else, except they are giving us some feedback that we are competitive. I think it bodes well.

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by mrm2083 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:40 pm

How did people on the preferred preferred do last year? It would just seem that they would let most of us in seeing as how they let in people from preferred and regular and they told us we have priority over those.

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by scribelaw » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:40 pm

DanInALionsDen wrote:I just got WL'ed at GULC, on the "preferred" preferred waitlist. I have to say I'm pretty surprised. 3.77 GPA with a 171 LSAT... I don't want to play to my own ego by asking if it's a YP, but...
Definite YP. You'll get into NYU and/or Chicago or, at least, Penn.

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by thickfreakness » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:42 pm

scribelaw wrote:
DanInALionsDen wrote:I just got WL'ed at GULC, on the "preferred" preferred waitlist. I have to say I'm pretty surprised. 3.77 GPA with a 171 LSAT... I don't want to play to my own ego by asking if it's a YP, but...
Definite YP. You'll get into NYU and/or Chicago or, at least, Penn.
Negative. Penn'll YP that lol

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by scribelaw » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:50 pm

thickfreakness wrote:
scribelaw wrote:
DanInALionsDen wrote:I just got WL'ed at GULC, on the "preferred" preferred waitlist. I have to say I'm pretty surprised. 3.77 GPA with a 171 LSAT... I don't want to play to my own ego by asking if it's a YP, but...
Definite YP. You'll get into NYU and/or Chicago or, at least, Penn.
Negative. Penn'll YP that lol
Probably credited. Sadly.

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by beef wellington » Sat Feb 20, 2010 10:35 pm

Allegedly the PPWL was pretty much just YP last cycle. Not sure what to make of all us splitters getting it alongside all you YP folks.

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by mrm2083 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:05 pm

Hopefully it was YP. I'm also a splitter with a 171/3.4 so while my numbers are not a lock they seem to definitely be in acceptance range. I think it may be a YP and a "we will take you if you really want to come list".

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by beef wellington » Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:08 pm

Seems like a ton of us have 171s.

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by ewc227 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:24 pm

im also on the "preferred preferred" waitlist. emailed the direct contact- sophia sim, heres what she wrote back

"We have only made a handful of these decisions--around 20--and we try to
be very careful about this special group. However, the committee is
still making decisions, so I imagine that number will increase as we
approach the end of our cycle.

Dean Cornblatt indicated that he hopes to have some update by late March
via e-mail. You are definitely welcome to send any additional materials
although it's not necessary."

hope that helps

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Re: GULC 2010 WL'ers

Post by beef wellington » Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:45 pm

ewc227 wrote:im also on the "preferred preferred" waitlist. emailed the direct contact- sophia sim, heres what she wrote back

"We have only made a handful of these decisions--around 20--and we try to
be very careful about this special group. However, the committee is
still making decisions, so I imagine that number will increase as we
approach the end of our cycle.

Dean Cornblatt indicated that he hopes to have some update by late March
via e-mail. You are definitely welcome to send any additional materials
although it's not necessary."

hope that helps
Thanks for sharing. Do you interpret that to mean that they've placed about 20 people within the special group, or that they've already accepted 20 people from the special group?

e: no WL/accepted apps on LSN yet...
ee: now that I read it again, it's pretty clearly the size of the group that she's talking about.

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