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Withdraw or Ride the Waitlist?
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:37 am
by descartesb4thehorse
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Re: Withdraw or Ride the Waitlist?
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:40 am
by bk1
I don't think it matters for next cycle what you do with wl's.
As for withdrawing, you might as well stay on since it doesn't cost you any effort.
Re: Withdraw or Ride the Waitlist?
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:52 am
by JamMasterJ
No one seems to care about previous cycle dings, especially if you do something to improve your candidacy next cycle, i.e. WE, LSAT retake or simply applying earlier.
Re: Withdraw or Ride the Waitlist?
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:54 am
by bhan87
Ride the waitlist assuming you won't get in and prepare accordingly (retake if appropriate, find a cool job to do for a year, etc). If you get in, then that's awesome. If not, you don't really lose anything and you'll be ready to try again next year
Re: Withdraw or Ride the Waitlist?
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:02 am
by descartesb4thehorse
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Re: Withdraw or Ride the Waitlist?
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:07 am
by bk1
Last cycle I applied to Penn but not Michigan/Virginia (I didn't have numbers for Penn, LSAT and GPA below median). Got dinged at Penn.
This cycle I applied to all three (supersplitter) and got waitlisted at Penn but rejected at Michigan/Virginia (I have a sub 3.0 GPA so I expected dings at all of them). I used the same LORs as last cycle and Penn sent me an email at the beginning saying "hey we'd prefer new LORs" and I told them "I don't have any, just use those" so they did. I feel like Penn waitlisted (instead of rejecting) me because I reapplied but who really knows.
Most schools will keep your app on file but I don't think it makes a large difference whether you applied before or not.