XxSpyKEx wrote:If there were one word I could use to describe outline depot it would be RIPOFF. These guys do literally nothing and make $10 for an old STUDENT outline. I could understand a few bucks, but $10 is like the price of a commercial supplement, and you have to pay that just to see the outline to determine whether it is crap (the preview usually cover the first day or two worth of material, which is often just a summary of text out of the book). I submitted around 15 outlines and they rejected every single one of them, and many of them were for professors that they didn't have any (or one) outline for and classes where I got the book award. Anyway, they really have no way of accurately assessing whether an outline is good or not since a good outline is one made by a student that actually paid attention in class and incorporated their class notes into the outline, which is not something they can determine at outlinedepot.
I actually had the same experience. I submitted all of my outlines actually after the 1st semester, and all of mine were rejected with the same response. When I inquired further, I received no response. I tried again after 2nd semester and was rejected again, despite CALI awards and whatnot. Furthermore, they did not have outlines for some of the classes/professors that I submitted (because a couple of professors were new), so I could not understand why they were rejected.
Basically, there is NO exchange system. The outline bank seems great, but I doubt they are really interested in adding any more outlines. Furthermore, the $10 dollars just does not seem to be worth it. In fact, I would say that I had much better success just simply asking upper classmen. Just find out who is on law review or working at some awesome firm, and ask them for advice + their outlines if they do not mind. Furthermore, I would recommend you just pay the 20 dollar club fee to get access to their outline banks instead (which likely contains a lot more outlines).
In the end, I did not buy any outlines from them. A few of my friends did and said that it was kind of a hit and miss. You might like ONE outline out of 5, so ultimately it is just not worth it in my opinion. One last bit is that there is no indication that these were outlines from students who did well, which worried me.
On the plus side, the previews of the outlines I looked at DID look pretty good. The outlines they have accepted in the past are definitely "neat" and organized" based on the previews.
