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You would turn down YSH for...(choose up to 4)

Hamilton @ CLS
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21%
Ruby @ Chicago
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15%
AnBryce/RTK @ NYU
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13%
Levy @ Penn (LOL, no URM in history has ever gotten one)
14
6%
Dillard/Darrow/Full Scholarship @ UVA/Mich/Berk
26
12%
Mordecai/Full Scholly/Hughes/Full Scholly @ Duke/NW/Cornell/GULC
23
11%
Full @ Texas/UCLA/Vandy
10
5%
F* that dude...literally nothing could keep me from YSH. Debt be damned!
38
17%
 
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by PoopNpants » Sat Dec 12, 2015 9:07 pm

BillClinton Jr wrote:IN AT DUKE VIA EMAIL!!!!! JD/LLM in Int'l/Comparative. First news of the cycle! GoDuke!
congrats bro. sure you got more acceptances on the way
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by Oskosh » Sat Dec 12, 2015 9:56 pm

Here's my cycle so far:

In at:

Berkeley
NYU

Interviewed with:
-Chicago (radio silence)

Upcoming interview with:

Harvard (hoping very good things!)
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by GreekOmega12 » Sat Dec 12, 2015 9:59 pm

Oskosh wrote:Here's my cycle so far:

In at:

Berkeley
NYU

Interviewed with:
-Chicago (radio silence)

Upcoming interview with:

Harvard (hoping very good things!)
You only applied to those 4? But good cycle so far!
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by AshburtonGrove » Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:48 am

BillClinton Jr wrote:IN AT DUKE VIA EMAIL!!!!! JD/LLM in Int'l/Comparative. First news of the cycle! GoDuke!
Congrats!! That's an awesome start to what I"m sure will be a great cycle!
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by omd3117 » Mon Dec 14, 2015 1:37 pm

BillClinton Jr wrote:IN AT DUKE VIA EMAIL!!!!! JD/LLM in Int'l/Comparative. First news of the cycle! GoDuke!

wahooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! congrats!
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by cc1012 » Mon Dec 14, 2015 1:41 pm

Oskosh wrote:Here's my cycle so far:

In at:

Berkeley
NYU

Interviewed with:
-Chicago (radio silence)

Upcoming interview with:

Harvard (hoping very good things!)
Good luck on your upcoming interview with Harvard! Mine is on Wednesday.
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by wunderwoman » Mon Dec 14, 2015 9:01 pm

In at Duke by email! First admit of the season for me.
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by jnwa » Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:35 pm

wunderwoman wrote:In at Duke by email! First admit of the season for me.
Congrats, is it me or is Duke showing the most urm love in the t14 so far this year?
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by BillClinton Jr » Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:56 pm

jnwa wrote:
wunderwoman wrote:In at Duke by email! First admit of the season for me.
Congrats, is it me or is Duke showing the most urm love in the t14 so far this year?
They have a goal of 20% AA students by 2020 from what I was told by a current URM student so I think we are seeing them make a genuine effort to get to that number
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by Cochran » Tue Dec 15, 2015 9:11 am

In at Duke this weekend by email too! 1st T-14 acceptance, crazy hyped!
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by BillClinton Jr » Tue Dec 15, 2015 4:00 pm

Cochran wrote:In at Duke this weekend by email too! 1st T-14 acceptance, crazy hyped!
CONGRATS!!! WELCOME TO THE CLUB!!!!
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by BillClinton Jr » Tue Dec 15, 2015 4:02 pm

In at Vandy today :D :shock: this week has been great and it's only Tuesday! Hopefully some good news is coming to anyone who applied there
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by texcellence » Tue Dec 15, 2015 5:53 pm

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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by woc » Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:07 pm

Removed.
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by wunderwoman » Tue Dec 15, 2015 9:00 pm

woc wrote:congratulations Duke admits! did all of you submit "why duke" essays?
I did! I wasn't planning on it but then I was like "Eh, why not."
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Post by jmj2254 » Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:26 pm

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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by woc » Wed Dec 16, 2015 12:38 pm

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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by ltowns1 » Wed Dec 16, 2015 12:56 pm

Cochran wrote:In at Duke this weekend by email too! 1st T-14 acceptance, crazy hyped!

Congrats
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by StringerSoprano_6062 » Wed Dec 16, 2015 7:15 pm

Does anyone have any idea how much of an indication one school's admittance is of your chances of admittance at similar T-14s? For example if one were to have been accepted at NYU and Duke and has an interview at Chicago but hasn't heard anything at all from schools like UVA and Penn is it plausible that they were an auto-reject at the latter schools? Essentially is there some form of similarity between the T-14s acceptance formulas?
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by jnwa » Wed Dec 16, 2015 7:47 pm

StringerSoprano_6062 wrote:Does anyone have any idea how much of an indication one school's admittance is of your chances of admittance at similar T-14s? For example if one were to have been accepted at NYU and Duke and has an interview at Chicago but hasn't heard anything at all from schools like UVA and Penn is it plausible that they were an auto-reject at the latter schools? Essentially is there some form of similarity between the T-14s acceptance formulas?
If you're talking about yourself then I'm in the same spot and all I know is Penn yeild protects like crazy. Plus I think they're still going through their EDs right now. As far as UVA idk I'm in at NYU and interviewed at CC but still under review at UVA.
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by condensation » Wed Dec 16, 2015 10:36 pm

Congrats on Duke everyone! That's awesome.

I had my JS1 this week (still processing that one) and I felt really good about it. Fingers crossed.

Hope to see more movement in this thread before the holidays! Let's get it!
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JS1 questions?

Post by Oskosh » Wed Dec 16, 2015 11:23 pm

meant to send this as a private message :p
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by hindo » Thu Dec 17, 2015 7:29 am

Hi all. I finally got my letters of recommendations from professors this week (I've been badgering them for ages but there was little I could do). Should I be worried about my admissions chances? It's pretty late in the cycle... I'm really scared now. I wasn't aware we were supposed to get it in so early before I checked this site today.
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Re: JS1 questions?

Post by condensation » Thu Dec 17, 2015 8:48 am

Oskosh wrote:
condensation wrote:Congrats on Duke everyone! That's awesome.

I had my JS1 this week (still processing that one) and I felt really good about it. Fingers crossed.

Hope to see more movement in this thread before the holidays! Let's get it!
Hey, I read that you had your JS1 a few days ago. Would you mind telling me whether the questions aligned to what you saw on the board? I have my JS1 soon, and I am incredibly nervous to be in it. I was hoping you would be able to allay some of my fears haha.
The questions definitely aligned with whats posted (talk about job, why (x) major, why law school, etc. Also, maybe a couple more unique and focused questions drawn from items in your personal statement, resume, etc.). No surprises or curveballs. I think just focusing on building the rapport was most helpful (and was easier to do on Skype than over the phone).
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by mindatwork » Thu Dec 17, 2015 8:20 pm

IN at Duke! Exactly on my 10th PT day.

#babysfirstT14
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