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WUSTL full-ride or wait and reapply

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:36 pm
by landshoes
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Re: WUSTL full-ride or wait and reapply

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:39 pm
by sublime
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Re: WUSTL full-ride or wait and reapply

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:47 pm
by landshoes
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Re: WUSTL full-ride or wait and reapply

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:49 pm
by BrazilBandit
landshoes wrote:I applied to every T-14 except NYU, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Berkeley.

I got terrible money and/or waitlisted from all of them. I am not even considering taking out 200k in loans so those are completely out for me. I have friends in biglaw and a lot of it seems decent and interesting, but it's not something I'd pay 200k just to get the chance to do.

I'm a URM so I feel like I underperformed my numbers, possibly because I applied after the deadlines for almost all of these schools.
URM with those numbers? Reapply and enjoy Cornell on a Full ride...

Re: WUSTL full-ride or wait and reapply

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:53 pm
by Atmosphere
BrazilBandit wrote:
landshoes wrote:I applied to every T-14 except NYU, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Berkeley.

I got terrible money and/or waitlisted from all of them. I am not even considering taking out 200k in loans so those are completely out for me. I have friends in biglaw and a lot of it seems decent and interesting, but it's not something I'd pay 200k just to get the chance to do.

I'm a URM so I feel like I underperformed my numbers, possibly because I applied after the deadlines for almost all of these schools.
URM with those numbers? Reapply and enjoy Cornell on a Full ride...
+1

Re: WUSTL full-ride or wait and reapply

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:11 pm
by Hikikomorist
BrazilBandit wrote:
landshoes wrote:I applied to every T-14 except NYU, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Berkeley.

I got terrible money and/or waitlisted from all of them. I am not even considering taking out 200k in loans so those are completely out for me. I have friends in biglaw and a lot of it seems decent and interesting, but it's not something I'd pay 200k just to get the chance to do.

I'm a URM so I feel like I underperformed my numbers, possibly because I applied after the deadlines for almost all of these schools.
URM with those numbers? Reapply and enjoy Cornell on a Full ride...
I'd imagine OP could do significantly better than that.

Re: WUSTL full-ride or wait and reapply

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:25 pm
by Mullens
How hard have you tried to negotiate scholarships? Schools should want you to attend with your numbers and URM-status; there might still be hope this cycle.

Re: WUSTL full-ride or wait and reapply

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:29 pm
by Tiago Splitter
What kind of URM and what are the other offers?

Re: WUSTL full-ride or wait and reapply

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:50 pm
by boomlawyered
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Re: WUSTL full-ride or wait and reapply

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:18 pm
by landshoes
boomlawyered wrote:I have similar numbers (even a lower GPA) and have gotten substantial offers from lower T-14, as well as the WUSTL full ride-- and I'm not a URM. Definitely negotiate and/or reapply next cycle if you can sit this one out.
If you don't mind, what general range of offers are you getting?

Re: WUSTL full-ride or wait and reapply

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:50 pm
by boomlawyered
Pm'd.

Re: WUSTL full-ride or wait and reapply

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 6:17 pm
by ticklemesilly
I also have similar numbers and got the full ride at WUSTL, plus offers at other T14 with decent $ (60K Cornell, Duke 75K, Michigan 75K, to name the few I was considering).

I'm not URM. If you are a URM you can do so much better. Wait it out 100%