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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:35 pm
by cl25
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Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:50 pm
by beidoun
who cares, you got accepted to harvard.

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:59 pm
by bk1
cl25 wrote:yield protection
Looks like you answered your own question.

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:09 pm
by Non-Chalant1
People like these are why I am sometimes weary of whether or not I will fit in at law school.

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:11 pm
by bk1
Non-Chalant1 wrote:People like these are why I am sometimes weary of whether or not I will fit in at law school.
People like this are why I am not sure whether I belong on this planet.

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:12 pm
by bostlaw
beidoun wrote:who cares, you got accepted to harvard.
wait a fellow TLS lions fan?

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:27 pm
by beidoun
bostlaw wrote:
beidoun wrote:who cares, you got accepted to harvard.
wait a fellow TLS lions fan?
I love the Lions. I am a season ticket holder and a lions slappy.

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:28 pm
by bostlaw
beidoun wrote:
bostlaw wrote:
beidoun wrote:who cares, you got accepted to harvard.
wait a fellow TLS lions fan?
I love the Lions. I am a season ticket holder and a lions slappy.
haha awesome. I still cant believe that horrible call week 1 with calvins td, whatever

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:31 pm
by beidoun
bostlaw wrote:
beidoun wrote:
bostlaw wrote:
beidoun wrote:who cares, you got accepted to harvard.
wait a fellow TLS lions fan?
I love the Lions. I am a season ticket holder and a lions slappy.
haha awesome. I still cant believe that horrible call week 1 with calvins td, whatever
That was probably the most disappointing lions game in the last ten years and then the Jets game happened.

The bears were horrible, the lions should of won both games if it was not for the refs.

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:33 pm
by DoubleChecks
cl25 wrote:I got into Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Georgetown, Duke, Berkeley, etc, but i just got waitlisted by Penn... my GPA and LSAT are both at the higher end of Penn's numbers. it was never one of my top choices, but i'm just curious why. yield protection? does Penn care about some soft factors i wasn't aware of like Northwestern & work experience or is Penn like Yale and somewhat of a black box?
if you know what YP is, why are you asking this question? it'd be like me saying, "i just visited china, and almost all the families i saw had one child (one son or one daughter). i dont really care, but im just curious why. is it the one child policy that they have there?"

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:35 pm
by theLSATnemesis
DoubleChecks wrote:
cl25 wrote:I got into Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Georgetown, Duke, Berkeley, etc, but i just got waitlisted by Penn... my GPA and LSAT are both at the higher end of Penn's numbers. it was never one of my top choices, but i'm just curious why. yield protection? does Penn care about some soft factors i wasn't aware of like Northwestern & work experience or is Penn like Yale and somewhat of a black box?
if you know what YP is, why are you asking this question? it'd be like me saying, "i just visited china, and almost all the families i saw had one child (one son or one daughter). i dont really care, but im just curious why. is it the one child policy that they have there?"
What is yield protection?

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:38 pm
by bostlaw
what is yield protection?

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:54 pm
by glitched
beidoun wrote:
bostlaw wrote:
beidoun wrote:who cares, you got accepted to harvard.
wait a fellow TLS lions fan?
I love the Lions. I am a season ticket holder and a lions slappy.

Ewwww lions. Lol jahvid best was on my fantasy team and i also went to the same ug as him and saw him play so I sorta rooted for the lions this year. Sadly LA doesn't have a team, so I generally just pick one for the season and just hope next year la gets one. With that being said, ewwww lions...


The percent yield of accepted students are factored into a law schools ranking. So schools created a very clever system of holds and waitlists to fudge those numbers. When an exceptional student comes along that the school believes will not attend their school, they will simply waitlist them without worrying that their yield goes down. If the student writes a good letter saying he will go there, then they will probably take the risk of accepting him from the waitlist. Almost every school YPs a little bit except maybe Princeton.

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:54 pm
by bk1
what is the search function?

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:55 pm
by Grizz
go to Harvard dumbass.

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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:55 pm
by $1.99
one more book smart TLSer that lacks social intelligence

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:55 pm
by $1.99
rad law wrote:go to Harvard dumbass.
lol

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:00 pm
by Non-Chalant1
bk187 wrote:
Non-Chalant1 wrote:People like these are why I am sometimes weary of whether or not I will fit in at law school.
People like this are why I am not sure whether I belong on this planet.
Moi?

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:15 pm
by bk1
Non-Chalant1 wrote:
bk187 wrote:
Non-Chalant1 wrote:People like these are why I am sometimes weary of whether or not I will fit in at law school.
People like this are why I am not sure whether I belong on this planet.
Moi?
I was echoing your statement and referring to OP.

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:17 pm
by Kabuo
bk187 wrote:
Non-Chalant1 wrote:
bk187 wrote:
Non-Chalant1 wrote:People like these are why I am sometimes weary of whether or not I will fit in at law school.
People like this are why I am not sure whether I belong on this planet.
Moi?
I was echoing your statement and referring to OP.
I thought you were calling someone out on the pervasive misuse of "weary" in place of "wary." It's like they've combined wary and leery.

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:40 pm
by NorCalBruin
DoubleChecks wrote:
cl25 wrote:I got into Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Georgetown, Duke, Berkeley, etc, but i just got waitlisted by Penn... my GPA and LSAT are both at the higher end of Penn's numbers. it was never one of my top choices, but i'm just curious why. yield protection? does Penn care about some soft factors i wasn't aware of like Northwestern & work experience or is Penn like Yale and somewhat of a black box?
if you know what YP is, why are you asking this question? it'd be like me saying, "i just visited china, and almost all the families i saw had one child (one son or one daughter). i dont really care, but im just curious why. is it the one child policy that they have there?"
Edit: I was just being a dick.

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:43 pm
by fastforward
We wrote one of our first blog posts about yield protection.
--LinkRemoved--
Hope this clears up a few things

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:03 pm
by Non-Chalant1
Kabuo wrote: I thought you were calling someone out on the pervasive misuse of "weary" in place of "wary." It's like they've combined wary and leery.
That is what I did. I guess I should stop using my work slang online.

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:34 pm
by Kabuo
Non-Chalant1 wrote:
Kabuo wrote: I thought you were calling someone out on the pervasive misuse of "weary" in place of "wary." It's like they've combined wary and leery.
That is what I did. I guess I should stop using my work slang online.
If your job is anything like mine, I don't think "weary" could ever be misused in describing it. Cannot WAIT to go to law school.

Re: in at HLS, CLS, & others... waitlist at Penn? why??

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 2:29 pm
by cl25
fastforward wrote:We wrote one of our first blog posts about yield protection.
--LinkRemoved--
Hope this clears up a few things
thanks fastforward. this was really helpful. For some of the other response, i honestly was not trying to be douchy or petty. i genuinely am wondering about what happened and whether there are other considerations, since i've only heard rumors of yield protection. if you think it's a stupid question, please don't respond at all, especially if you have poor grammar.