URM 2013-2014 Cycle Thread Forum

[nabadgelyo]

Congrats to everyone who has deposited! I'm sure you will all succeed at whatever school you decide to attend.

[Cocoblues]

Congrats to everyone who has deposited! I'm sure you will all succeed at whatever school you decide to attend.

[Kool-Aid]

Congrats to everyone who has deposited! I'm sure you will all succeed at whatever school you decide to attend.

[mandyjay11]

Thanks friends!!!!

[applelover]

Congrats to everyone who has deposited! I'm sure you will all succeed at whatever school you decide to attend.

[jrd93]

If you haven't already, can you please post/update stats in this thread( http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 9&start=25 ) to help future applicants pleeeaasssseeee!!!!!!! Thank you guys!

[wlee1220]

Hey guys anyone planning to attend Vandy's ASW? I decided just to wait out these last few weeks before depositing but barring something drastic I think I'm going to deposit at Candy. Congrats to everyone on such great cycles!!!!

[runinthefront]

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[wlee1220]

Hey guys anyone planning to attend Vandy's ASW? I decided just to wait out these last few weeks before depositing but barring something drastic I think I'm going to deposit at Candy. Congrats to everyone on such great cycles!!!!

I went to the previous one and it was beyond awesome

I'm hoping this one is too. I'm really excited about Vandy so we'll see

[applelover]

If anyone is attending Stanford's ASW, please PM me.

[BankruptMe]

URM cycles are truly unpredictable.

Rejected to almost every school I applied to, yet waitlisted at a T30. Wut

[ThePiedPiper]

Congrats friends to everyone who has deposited !!!

[twenty]

URM cycles are truly unpredictable.

Rejected to almost every school I applied to, yet waitlisted at a T30. Wut

You're quite a bit below everyone's 25ths though, aren't you? It might be worth your time to sit out the cycle (ideally by choice, if you're fortunate enough to have the opportunity) and retake the LSAT in October.

Good luck man.

[MoMettaMonk]

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[mt2165]

[ It might be worth your time to sit out the cycle (ideally by choice, if you're fortunate enough to have the opportunity) and Good luck! Follow your dreams! the LSAT in October.

Good luck man.

R-etake is still getting turned into Good luck! Follow your dreams!? I thought that would've ended after April Fool's Day.

Yeah it's old by now...but good lord is this turning into a nail biter for ole mt

[toshiroh]

I went to UCLA's BLSA solidarity dinner last night. I must say, I was quite impressed about how candid they were about discussing the racial issues on campus. I'll go into more detail about my time here when I return Sunday.

[El Principe]

I went to UCLA's BLSA solidarity dinner last night. I must say, I was quite impressed about how candid they were about discussing the racial issues on campus. I'll go into more detail about my time here when I return Sunday.

Do tell

[Moltenmama]

I went to UCLA's BLSA solidarity dinner last night. I must say, I was quite impressed about how candid they were about discussing the racial issues on campus. I'll go into more detail about my time here when I return Sunday.

Do tell

Please do!

[Futuregohan14]

I went to UCLA's BLSA solidarity dinner last night. I must say, I was quite impressed about how candid they were about discussing the racial issues on campus. I'll go into more detail about my time here when I return Sunday.

Do tell

Please do!

[MoMettaMonk]

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[runinthefront]

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[teampeeta]

Have any of you guys visited Cornell/Ithaca?

I was accepted there with a hefty scholarship, which almost definitely ended my cycle since the COA will end up being less than any other T20 I've been accepted to. However, due to financial reasons, I will probably be unable to travel to Ithaca until early summer. They've rejected my request for a travel stipend outside of an official ASW, and I unfortunately have to miss the ASW...

Also, are any of you planning on depositing at a place you haven't visited yet? Please tell me I'm not crazy...

You aren't crazy. My friend deposited at HLS without ever having visited before. Do you have any other contenders that might make you decline your Cornell acceptance? I wouldn't want them to win by default but if it's Cornell w/ scholarship v. Univ of Kentucky Law at sticker, does it really matter how much you like Ithaca?

[runinthefront]

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[teampeeta]

Cornell's scholarship beats out every other scholarship by at least $30,000. Even with the cost of living in Ithaca and the absurd cost of tuition, this still amounts to a nearly identical COA between Cornell and the school I loved my second choice (Vanderbilt). With the biglaw+ fed clerkship scores differing significantly between the two schools, I don't think my fear of the cold/snow can trump choosing the school with the best outcomes for employment. Would you agree that there is enough of a difference in employment outcome between the two that other factors (quality of life/market destination) should hold less weight?

In an ideal world, I would like to end up working in the South, but I'm more interested on securing employment in general.

Ironically, this would've been a perfect question for AAJD2B to answer since she was strongly in favor of both schools/ probably was going to attend one of them. I'd defer to someone with more experience with both schools (I didn't apply to or do much research on either). However, my layman's intuition is that Cornell's slightly better ranking (it's inside the T14 whereas Vandy is not) and smaller class sizes would make securing employment from there easier. Plus, if you have more scholarship money, that lessens your debt load and gives you a broader variety of employment prospects more quickly (you might be able to consider non-firm work sooner if you have fewer loans to pay off). I don't think a fear of snow would cause me to choose Vandy over Cornell, but I don't know. Maybe Ithaca is a hellish place in the middle of nowhere and full of trolls and crazies?


On another note, is anyone at Stanford's ASW? Any sense of whether they're done admitting people yet?

[El Principe]

Cornell at the same COA of Vanderbilt is a no-brainer decision for Vanderbilt. I can't see the upside of Vanderbilt in this info because they're not really peer schools in terms of employment prospects.

EDIT: I don't really see how Vanderbilt has an advantage unless you want to crack secondary/tertiary "big"-law that Vandy feeds into, such as TN or Kentucky, but other than that, Cornell will give you a greater advantage for the rest of the markets. Ithaca may be in the middle of nowhere, but it's much closer to NYC and the rest of the major markets on the East Coast, which is an important consideration considering

Unless you have a wife & kids, or a dying family member from TN who's leaving a will containing a hefty sum of money contingent on graduation from Vanderbilt law, Cornell is the obvious choice with the same COA.