URM 2014-2015 Cycle Thread Forum

Dream_weaver32 · Post by **Dream_weaver32** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:53 pm

ChiefMango wrote:Got the call from Stanford this morning... Still in massive shock. Was also awarded the Mordecai and a penn admission earlier this week. Friday the 13th has nothing on the cycle we've all been having!

Shoutout to all the acceptances I've missed out on in the last few weeks! Looking at the spreadsheet, we could all be held liable for the aggravated assault of this cycle.

Congrats! I didn't even realize it was Friday the 13th.

DiniMae · Post by **DiniMae** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:55 pm

ChiefMango wrote:Got the call from Stanford this morning... Still in massive shock. Was also awarded the Mordecai and a penn admission earlier this week. Friday the 13th has nothing on the cycle we've all been having!

Shoutout to all the acceptances I've missed out on in the last few weeks! Looking at the spreadsheet, we could all be held liable for the aggravated assault of this cycle.

Woooowww!!!! What a week! Congrats!

DiniMae · Post by **DiniMae** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:56 pm

cc78 wrote:
wsag826 wrote:In at Columbia the other day! Tough decisions ahead.
You slipped this in, boss. Congrats!

congrats!

Does this change your decision process?

cc78 · Post by **cc78** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:57 pm

ChiefMango wrote:Got the call from Stanford this morning... Still in massive shock. Was also awarded the Mordecai and a penn admission earlier this week. Friday the 13th has nothing on the cycle we've all been having!

Shoutout to all the acceptances I've missed out on in the last few weeks! Looking at the spreadsheet, we could all be held liable for the aggravated assault of this cycle.

Well my my congrats!

wsag826 · Post by **wsag826** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:29 pm

DiniMae wrote:
cc78 wrote:
wsag826 wrote:In at Columbia the other day! Tough decisions ahead.
You slipped this in, boss. Congrats!
congrats!

Does this change your decision process?

Thanks to both of you! Yeah....I definitely think it does. I don't even know what I'm thinking right now other than trying to figure out if DC placement is a realistic thing coming out of Columbia or Chicago/NU.

ChiefMango wrote:Got the call from Stanford this morning... Still in massive shock. Was also awarded the Mordecai and a penn admission earlier this week. Friday the 13th has nothing on the cycle we've all been having!

Shoutout to all the acceptances I've missed out on in the last few weeks! Looking at the spreadsheet, we could all be held liable for the aggravated assault of this cycle.

I echo everyone's congrats! Great job cleaning up this week

jemthey17 · Post by **jemthey17** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:51 pm

ChiefMango wrote:Got the call from Stanford this morning... Still in massive shock. Was also awarded the Mordecai and a penn admission earlier this week. Friday the 13th has nothing on the cycle we've all been having!

Shoutout to all the acceptances I've missed out on in the last few weeks! Looking at the spreadsheet, we could all be held liable for the aggravated assault of this cycle.

Whoa, major congrats, dude!

jw316 · Post by **jw316** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:53 pm

Congrats!!

ChiefMango · Post by **ChiefMango** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:07 pm

Thanks all! I'm still reeling from listening to the voicemail. At a time when freezing weather has been a constant, dreaming of California couldn't be more enjoyable.

Dream_weaver32 · Post by **Dream_weaver32** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:13 pm

Reserve at Columbia. Really excited about still having a glimmer of hope.

DiniMae · Post by **DiniMae** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:32 pm

Dream_weaver32 wrote:Reserve at Columbia. Really excited about still having a glimmer of hope.

Reserve is a good sign. It's a big entering class and I suspect some movement in a few months.

Atmosphere · Post by **Atmosphere** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:23 pm

Dream_weaver32 wrote:Reserve at Columbia. Really excited about still having a glimmer of hope.

Awesome to hear man

Flokkness · Post by **Flokkness** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:37 pm

Grats Mango and Dream! Some good energy to power through another week right there.

isaiah1992 · Post by **isaiah1992** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 11:23 pm

wsag826 wrote:In at Columbia the other day! Tough decisions ahead.

isaiah1992 wrote:Stanford URM 1L here. If you guys have any questions hit me up. Always down to pay it forward. I used TLS a lot during my cycle.
Thanks so much for offering! If you don't mind me asking, were you considering any other schools next to Stanford? What ultimately was your "deciding factor"? And, to be a little bit more specific, were you considering schools with larger class sizes? If so, what ultimately led you to a school with a very small class size & how do you feel about that decision ~6 months in?

So I was a Stanford Waitlist admit, my cycle came down to Harvard, Michigan, and Berkeley. between those 3 money and location were the two big factors. I am from California and wanted to stay in California. I chose berkeley because I really liked the people and the professors. However, Stanford was always my dream school, I stayed on the waitlist until I got the call from Dean Deal in late June.

I am definitely paying more money for Stanford than I would be at Cal, and I have substantial undergrad debt. Debt sucks, but its an investment in your future. I am going to hate paying that money back, but at the end of the day it was worth it.

AOT · Post by **AOT** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:25 pm

Surprise admit from Duke just now!

cc78 · Post by **cc78** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:42 pm

alloverthat wrote:Surprise admit from Duke just now!

Congrats!

jw316 · Post by **jw316** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:36 pm

Congrats!

03282016 · Post by **03282016** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:48 pm

cc78 · Post by **cc78** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:51 pm

Well since I am obsessed with this law school stuff and dying a little from a lack of news, I did some LSN research on AA applicants to 10 schools. Here's what I was able to come up with going back 5 cycles in terms of GPA/LSAT 25/50/75ths:

Of course a few caveats:

1. Because it's LSN data, who knows what's true or not.
2. We have a sample size issue of course (we can't know what % of applicants we are talking about here because schools do not release applicant data by race/ethnicity), but just intuitively what happens to around 149 people (the number of people accounted for from Harvard) feels significant. At the same time, the Yale number is suspect because only 7 AAs report a Yale acceptance on LSN in the past five years

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I don't know what else this means or what use it could be, but I am intrigued by the fact it reinforces our conventional wisdom that 165 is an important benchmark in terms of assessing AA/URM chances. I'm curious to see if anyone else out there has any insight.

davek · Post by **davek** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:52 pm

Is anyone counting down till House of Cards comes back to distract from waiting?

ballcaps · Post by **ballcaps** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:53 pm

cc78 wrote:At the same time, the Yale number is suspect because only 7 AAs report a Yale acceptance on LSN in the past five years

that is truly fucking unbelievable.

cc78 · Post by **cc78** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:02 pm

ballcaps wrote:
cc78 wrote:At the same time, the Yale number is suspect because only 7 AAs report a Yale acceptance on LSN in the past five years
that is truly fucking unbelievable.

Well...it's entirely possible LSN just doesn't attract the fanciest of the fanciest AA applicants to share. There are 42 AAs at Yale right now, so 14 in each class. If we work back from Yale's 80% yield (which I bet is lower for AAs, because AAs prefer HLS to YLS moreso than the general population), we get that those 42 folks came from 52 acceptances across 3 years, so I guess 17-18 AAs get into Yale each year?

03282016 · Post by **03282016** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:24 pm

DiniMae · Post by **DiniMae** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:22 pm

CC, that's great research. What I wish I knew the floors. I'm truly curious on whether this will drop with the decrease in applicants. Most of these schools cant really make their schools any smaller. Except Harvard I guess. Any insight as to why HLS continues to keep such a large class?

Dream_weaver32 · Post by **Dream_weaver32** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:12 pm

Wahrheit wrote:Can you do that for NAs, CC?

It will be almost impossible based on what's on LSN. data is almost non-existent.

03282016 · Post by **03282016** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:32 pm

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