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Because a large portion of the people with the stats for it are likely to get big money from other T-14s and have a decent shot at HYS.Humbert Humbert wrote:Any thoughts on why applying ED to Northwestern is not a more popular option, given the whole full ride thing? A t14 with solid biglaw stats w/ full tuition scholarship? Am I missing something?
It's also a fairly new program, so maybe the word isn't really out there yet.Regulus wrote:+1Tiago Splitter wrote:Because a large portion of the people with the stats for it are likely to get big money from other T-14s and have a decent shot at HYS.Humbert Humbert wrote:Any thoughts on why applying ED to Northwestern is not a more popular option, given the whole full ride thing? A t14 with solid biglaw stats w/ full tuition scholarship? Am I missing something?
Because they would be bound to go to Northwestern with presumably stellar numbers...
Is this actually true, though? Another poster described the situation as a market inefficiency, and I tend to agree with that.Tiago Splitter wrote:Because a large portion of the people with the stats for it are likely to get big money from other T-14s and have a decent shot at HYS.Humbert Humbert wrote:Any thoughts on why applying ED to Northwestern is not a more popular option, given the whole full ride thing? A t14 with solid biglaw stats w/ full tuition scholarship? Am I missing something?
Can you elaborate on this?Fitz51 wrote:Is this actually true, though? Another poster described the situation as a market inefficiency, and I tend to agree with that.Tiago Splitter wrote:Because a large portion of the people with the stats for it are likely to get big money from other T-14s and have a decent shot at HYS.Humbert Humbert wrote:Any thoughts on why applying ED to Northwestern is not a more popular option, given the whole full ride thing? A t14 with solid biglaw stats w/ full tuition scholarship? Am I missing something?
My 3.5x/172 had no shot at HYS and would have yielded no money at CCN.
That was me who said that. I think they are actually targeting CCN people, not HYS.Fitz51 wrote:Is this actually true, though? Another poster described the situation as a market inefficiency, and I tend to agree with that.Tiago Splitter wrote:Because a large portion of the people with the stats for it are likely to get big money from other T-14s and have a decent shot at HYS.Humbert Humbert wrote:Any thoughts on why applying ED to Northwestern is not a more popular option, given the whole full ride thing? A t14 with solid biglaw stats w/ full tuition scholarship? Am I missing something?
My 3.5x/172 had no shot at HYS and would have yielded no money at CCN.
I don't know who they are targeting exactly, but I think the people who have most to gain from it are CCN sticker/decent ($60K?) MVPDCG money kids.ChampagnePapi wrote:That was me who said that. I think they are actually targeting CCN people, not HYS.Fitz51 wrote:Is this actually true, though? Another poster described the situation as a market inefficiency, and I tend to agree with that.Tiago Splitter wrote:Because a large portion of the people with the stats for it are likely to get big money from other T-14s and have a decent shot at HYS.Humbert Humbert wrote:Any thoughts on why applying ED to Northwestern is not a more popular option, given the whole full ride thing? A t14 with solid biglaw stats w/ full tuition scholarship? Am I missing something?
My 3.5x/172 had no shot at HYS and would have yielded no money at CCN.
If I remember correctly (I will confirm once LSN is back up) a good chunk getting it are not above both medians and split or reverse split, including myself.Crowing wrote:The only people I see getting the full ride without being above both medians are people who self-report some type of impressive or meaningful WE. For splitters it's still very difficult to snag and can be a waste of an ED when you don't know if you'll even get CCN sticker with RD.
Graduated UG last spring, working currently, applying to schools in the fall. Check post history to verify. Good call though buddy.fatduck wrote:nice try, northwestern admissions intern
Yeah but they're people who at least claim to have really good WE. I researched this back in the fall when I was applying and concluded that with my numbers (3.4X/173) and lack of meaningful WE I had 0 shot at the full ride.Fitz51 wrote:If I remember correctly (I will confirm once LSN is back up) a good chunk getting it are not above both medians and split or reverse split, including myself.Crowing wrote:The only people I see getting the full ride without being above both medians are people who self-report some type of impressive or meaningful WE. For splitters it's still very difficult to snag and can be a waste of an ED when you don't know if you'll even get CCN sticker with RD.
Did you ED elsewhere?Crowing wrote:Yeah but they're people who at least claim to have really good WE. I researched this back in the fall when I was applying and concluded that with my numbers (3.4X/173) and lack of meaningful WE I had 0 shot at the full ride.Fitz51 wrote:If I remember correctly (I will confirm once LSN is back up) a good chunk getting it are not above both medians and split or reverse split, including myself.Crowing wrote:The only people I see getting the full ride without being above both medians are people who self-report some type of impressive or meaningful WE. For splitters it's still very difficult to snag and can be a waste of an ED when you don't know if you'll even get CCN sticker with RD.
I agree that ED NU can be a good option for a certain subset of people, but that's also why it's not "popular."
Humbert Humbert wrote:Graduated UG [Northwestern University] last spring, working currently [at the admissions office], applying to schools in the fall. Check post history to verify. Good call though buddy.fatduck wrote:nice try, northwestern admissions intern
Live and work in New York City. Went to school in upstate NY. Try again?fatduck wrote:Humbert Humbert wrote:Graduated UG [Northwestern University] last spring, working currently [at the admissions office], applying to schools in the fall. Check post history to verify. Good call though buddy.fatduck wrote:nice try, northwestern admissions intern
it's 2013, people work remotely.Humbert Humbert wrote:Live and work in New York City. Went to school in upstate NY. Try again?fatduck wrote:Humbert Humbert wrote:Graduated UG [Northwestern University] last spring, working currently [at the admissions office], applying to schools in the fall. Check post history to verify. Good call though buddy.fatduck wrote:nice try, northwestern admissions intern
Not much reason for them to give it to a 169 or below. If you are a 3.8/170 then yes it makes a lot of sense, but that's a fairly small group of people.Humbert Humbert wrote:This is really my question - if you are someone with solid, but not quite HYS-level stats (say, 3.8/168-170), then a full-ride to a t14 school with 50-60% chance at biglaw seems like a no-brainer. Is that just me?
Except that YHS gives tons of need-based aid and you won't know what that is until after you're already locked into Northwestern's ED.Desert Fox wrote:People on TLS only value debt because of the risk of not getting big law. They don't consider what it's like to get big law with crazy debt. So to the majority here, YHS is less risky than NU at sticker. But they aren't considering a ton of facts. Like what happens if you get no offered, or laid off after 2 years in big law. Or you really fucking hate big law. Or the stress of working 80 hours a week, only to pay most of your discretionary money to a DirectLoans.gov.
Fullride at a T13 >> YHS at sticker.
I doubt that group is as small as you are making it out to be.Tiago Splitter wrote:Except that YHS gives tons of need-based aid and you won't know what that is until after you're already locked into Northwestern's ED.Desert Fox wrote:People on TLS only value debt because of the risk of not getting big law. They don't consider what it's like to get big law with crazy debt. So to the majority here, YHS is less risky than NU at sticker. But they aren't considering a ton of facts. Like what happens if you get no offered, or laid off after 2 years in big law. Or you really fucking hate big law. Or the stress of working 80 hours a week, only to pay most of your discretionary money to a DirectLoans.gov.
Fullride at a T13 >> YHS at sticker.
If you are in a situation where your parents make too much money for you to get any aid from YSH but your family isn't helping you pay for law school at all and you'll have sticker debt then I agree with you. But again, small group of people.
Not trying to be a jackass but the people who have parents who make that much money (WELL into the six figures) are probably getting financial assistance from their parents anyway.Desert Fox wrote: I doubt that group is as small as you are making it out to be.
not quite HYS? that's not quite CCNHumbert Humbert wrote:This is really my question - if you are someone with solid, but not quite HYS-level stats (say, 3.8/168-170), then a full-ride to a t14 school with 50-60% chance at biglaw seems like a no-brainer. Is that just me?