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

Hamilton @ CLS
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21%
Ruby @ Chicago
33
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%
 
Total votes: 219
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by ramybamy » Fri Feb 19, 2016 6:41 pm

Rejected at berkeley today :( a bit surprised to be honest

ah well, hopefully good news will be coming soon
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by jnwa » Sat Feb 20, 2016 1:41 pm

fliptrip wrote:
texcellence wrote:
fliptrip wrote:Waitlisted at Michigan today. Alas...
dang, must be a YP thing with your #s, I'm surprised. sorry man. did you write a Why Mich?
Did I write a why mich?! YES! I spent hours writing about my affection for that place. I did everything but attach a recording of me singing Hail to the Victors.
thats where you fucked up..everyone does that
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by fliptrip » Sat Feb 20, 2016 2:12 pm

jnwa wrote:
fliptrip wrote:
texcellence wrote:
fliptrip wrote:Waitlisted at Michigan today. Alas...
dang, must be a YP thing with your #s, I'm surprised. sorry man. did you write a Why Mich?
Did I write a why mich?! YES! I spent hours writing about my affection for that place. I did everything but attach a recording of me singing Hail to the Victors.
thats where you fucked up..everyone does that
Duly noted. I'll send it along ASAP.
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by fliptrip » Mon Feb 22, 2016 3:27 pm

Hi ho folks,

Just got the call from Dean Deal. I'm in at Stanford. That's pretty cool. I don't know what to do now...lol
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Post by Iam3hunna » Mon Feb 22, 2016 3:50 pm

In at UPENN, via phone call just now!
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Post by Iam3hunna » Mon Feb 22, 2016 3:51 pm

fliptrip wrote:Hi ho folks,

Just got the call from Dean Deal. I'm in at Stanford. That's pretty cool. I don't know what to do now...lol

Dude, that is awesome. Congratulations man! So envious.
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Post by fliptrip » Mon Feb 22, 2016 3:53 pm

Iam3hunna wrote:
fliptrip wrote:Hi ho folks,

Just got the call from Dean Deal. I'm in at Stanford. That's pretty cool. I don't know what to do now...lol

Dude, that is awesome. Congratulations man! So envious.
Thanks, dude. Congrats to you as well on Penn!
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Post by Flokkness » Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:23 pm

uhwrestler wrote: This is probably the best post i have read on this forum. Im almost certainly going to take this exam again and reapply. It would be almost insane not to at least try to break 160 (and if im really lucky hit 165) at the cost of a one year delay till law school. Im going to start forming a study strategy and really start focusing on this exam because i know i didnt study to my potential the first time.
Yep, do it and don't look back.

Great post indeed.
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by condensation » Mon Feb 22, 2016 5:59 pm

fliptrip wrote:Hi ho folks,

Just got the call from Dean Deal. I'm in at Stanford. That's pretty cool. I don't know what to do now...lol
Yo!! That's awesome -congrats!
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Post by AfrocentricAsian » Mon Feb 22, 2016 8:30 pm

I think advice for future minority applicants should be to keep your gpa as high as possible...it seems like its valued more than the lsat once you break 160 (at least for AA applicants) <-- but doesn't hold true once you break 170
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Post by fliptrip » Mon Feb 22, 2016 8:40 pm

AfrocentricAsian wrote:I think advice for future minority applicants should be to keep your gpa as high as possible...it seems like its valued more than the lsat once you break 160 (at least for AA applicants) <-- but doesn't hold true once you break 170

+10000. There's just less boost on GPA than on LSAT.
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Post by bellanoche2019 » Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:22 am

fliptrip wrote:Hi ho folks,

Just got the call from Dean Deal. I'm in at Stanford. That's pretty cool. I don't know what to do now...lol
Congrats!
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Post by GreekOmega12 » Tue Feb 23, 2016 8:05 pm

What ASWs are everyone attending?
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Post by Iam3hunna » Tue Feb 23, 2016 8:17 pm

GreekOmega12 wrote:What ASWs are everyone attending?
I will definitely be at Berkeley's ASW. Not sure about the others.
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Post by GreekOmega12 » Tue Feb 23, 2016 8:26 pm

Iam3hunna wrote:
GreekOmega12 wrote:What ASWs are everyone attending?
I will definitely be at Berkeley's ASW. Not sure about the others.
I will be at UVA's. The only one that is definite so far.
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Post by nexttoplawyer » Tue Feb 23, 2016 8:34 pm

GreekOmega12 wrote:What ASWs are everyone attending?
UVA and Penn definitely.
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Post by lawandorder2019 » Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:14 pm

GreekOmega12 wrote:What ASWs are everyone attending?
UVA and UCLA! I'm really looking forward to both since UVA is my top choice but also super pumped for LA weather when it should still be cold here.
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Post by beckett » Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:27 pm

GreekOmega12 wrote:What ASWs are everyone attending?
Duke and NYU!
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Post by bellanoche2019 » Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:36 pm

GreekOmega12 wrote:What ASWs are everyone attending?
UVA and UCLA probably
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Post by Mrocky2 » Tue Feb 23, 2016 11:39 pm

GreekOmega12 wrote:What ASWs are everyone attending?
Columbia next week! Pumped because I've never been to NY and I might slide through NYU if time permits
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by Howard2Harvard » Tue Feb 23, 2016 11:40 pm

Berkeley and UVA so far
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Post by MarshallMarshal » Wed Feb 24, 2016 11:03 am

Howard2Harvard wrote:Berkeley and UVA so far

Ditto for me. I need to decide when I'm going to hit NYU, but the whole having a big girl job thing is throwing off my ambitions.
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Post by lawyergirl94 » Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:57 pm

Update:
- Completed interview w. Chicago (2/22)
- WL at Penn
- In Michigan ($$)
- In Fordham (no scholly info yet)
- $$$$$$ from Irvine

Hoping to hear from Cornell & Berkeley by the end of this week with good news!
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by fliptrip » Wed Feb 24, 2016 1:00 pm

lawyergirl94 wrote:Update:
- Completed interview w. Chicago (2/22)
- WL at Penn
- In Michigan ($$)
- In Fordham (no scholly info yet)
- $$$$$$ from Irvine

Hoping to hear from Cornell & Berkeley by the end of this week with good news!
Congrats! You're having a good cycle. That's a lot of dollar signs from Irvine. Did you get a stipend too? Just curious.

Did you go FR at Berkeley?
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Re: URM 2015-2016 Cycle Thread

Post by lawyergirl94 » Wed Feb 24, 2016 1:05 pm

fliptrip wrote:
lawyergirl94 wrote:Update:
- Completed interview w. Chicago (2/22)
- WL at Penn
- In Michigan ($$)
- In Fordham (no scholly info yet)
- $$$$$$ from Irvine

Hoping to hear from Cornell & Berkeley by the end of this week with good news!
Congrats! You're having a good cycle. That's a lot of dollar signs from Irvine. Did you get a stipend too? Just curious.

Did you go FR at Berkeley?
Thanks! No stipend... I may have over exaggerated a bit lol. They're giving me a little over 80% discount.
& yes. FR at Berkeley
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