URM 2014-2015 Cycle Thread Forum

[FairchildFLT]

I got my LSAT score today. AA male, veteran, with a LSAT of 155 and a 3.41 GPA. This will be a nerve-wracking cycle.

Retake. If you could manage to score 7+ points higher, you're looking at at least a few T-14s and probably scholly. Law School is always going to be there, however, the school you attend has major implications as to how much you make and where you end up working. I suppose the question you should be asking yourself is - is waiting another cycle to retake and reapply worth foregoing attending this year and the probability of schools you will be accepted into this cycle?

Yeah if I do decide to retake I'll be retaking in February or June. I'm going to apply this cycle anyway (fee waiver so all my applications are free) and I don't really care about scholarships because I'm going to school for free anyway (thanks G.I. Bill.) According to LSN there was a AA Male who got into UT with a 2.6 155 last cycle. I've got better stats then that in addition to being a vet and applications being even further down this year. If I get in somewhere I want, then I'll go. If not I'll just hang out and retake. Thanks for the advice!

[LoganCouture]

In at Duke!!!!

[AOT]

In at Duke!!!!

Congrats lc!

[DiniMae]

In at Duke!!!!

Congrats! Is the first one of the thread?

[Dream_weaver32]

Just submitted this morning! 10 schools, still waiting to submit Yale.

[LSATneurotic]

Ic39, Congratulations on getting into Duke later this week.

[LoganCouture]

Congrats lc!

Congrats! Is the first one of the thread?

Thanks guys! And no, LSATneurotic already got in earlier this month.

Ic39, Congratulations on getting into Duke later this week.

A little later than you predicted

[90convoy]

All you peeps gettin into Duke and I'm just sittin here with a held app

Hopefully the rest of the t-14 loves me
Congrats however!

[LoganCouture]

All you peeps gettin into Duke and I'm just sittin here with a held app

Hopefully the rest of the t-14 loves me
Congrats however!

I'm sorry 90 I hope you get a quick acceptance once you send those grades in.

[FairchildFLT]

Looks like according to LSAC, test takers were down 8.1% for the September test. Good luck everyone!

[WeeBey]

^ woohoo

lets hope the medians keep on dropping and they get even extra generous with schollys for a urm who can raise a median

[LoganCouture]

^ woohoo

lets hope the medians keep on dropping and they get even extra generous with schollys for a urm who can raise a median

Unfortunately the median drop seems to be largely over at T14 schools. GULC LSAT dropped a point, but Columbia and Stanford gained 1 and everybody else held. For GPA, Harvard dropped .01 and UVA dropped .02 but everyone else held last year's median (UChi, Penn, Duke, Northwestern) or raised it (Yale, Stanford, Columbia, NYU, Cal, Mich, Cornell, GULC).

I do hope they get more generous though to maintain/raise those medians

[WeeBey]

^ Well less people people took the lsat year as well, so theyre definitely was a smaller number of high lsat scorers. And remember, schools can manipulate how they get to their medians, for instance, taking a splitter and a reverse splitter doesn't hurt their medians and i feel like theyve had to resort to that. From what i've seen, splitters have been doing better in recent cycles.

[LSATneurotic]

I only just realized your username is a reference to cat's cradle...

[WeeBey]

^Mine?

[LoganCouture]

Haha I think he is talking about mine.

But it's LC39. Not ic39. Although I am a big fan of cat's cradle.

[jw316]

Congrats to you guys who've already heard back!

I'll be submitting after the December LSAT (will be my first score). Praying for YHS but going to blanket the T14 and see what happens, sending good vibes out to you all.

[LSATneurotic]

Haha I think he is talking about mine.

But it's LC39. Not ic39. Although I am a big fan of cat's cradle.

ohhhh...oops. Yeah, Vonnegut has a unique sense of humor, that's for sure.

[zim5354]

In at Berkeley. Good luck everyone.

[Dream_weaver32]

In at Berkeley. Good luck everyone.

PM'd

[LoganCouture]

In at Berkeley. Good luck everyone.

Congratulations!! First Cal acceptance of the thread!

[jlwx]

In at Berkeley. Good luck everyone.

Congratulations!! First Cal acceptance of the thread!

Congrats man!! Got the call too

[jw316]

Congrats! Dang that's fast on Duke and Cal. Hoping I'm not too late the party.

[alpha kenny body]

Hoping I'm not too late the party.

Calm down. URM cycles are generally known to take a long time. Just sit back and chill brah. Get into some new hobbies, have more sex, do something to calm the neuroticism.

[rwe13]

Checking in !

All apps completed and submitted, all set for the waiting game