FAIL: URM paying sticker at a T14, taking questions! Forum

[MC Southstar]

I don't think I'm entitled to not be paying sticker. It's just that I don't know one, personally, that is.

Found one:

I'd make some comment like "you should be able to do better than that!" but as a minority paying sticker for MVP, I guess we're equalized now.

I'm ORM dude, big difference.

[romothesavior]

Ah true... I forgot. (You're Asian, right?)

The way you said it in your previous post just now made it sound like you are a URM paying sticker at MVP.

[09042014]

You should have taken GULC, but whatever, I'm paying stick at NU, what can I say?

[hiromoto45]

D Broski, you're going to do fine man. You're going to a great school, and being a URM will give you a pretty sizeable grade cushion. It really is staggering how few AAs there are in biglaw, and with decent grades from a great school, I'm sure you will find your way into a top firm. You are a commodity in this industry, so long as you can pull grades

If anything, just use that debt as a motivator in law school. I plan to keep a framed copy of my loan report on my desk.

Where's the evidence for this? I'm not believing the hype...

[Aberzombie1892]

D Broski, you're going to do fine man. You're going to a great school, and being a URM will give you a pretty sizeable grade cushion. It really is staggering how few AAs there are in biglaw, and with decent grades from a great school, I'm sure you will find your way into a top firm. You are a commodity in this industry, so long as you can pull grades

If anything, just use that debt as a motivator in law school. I plan to keep a framed copy of my loan report on my desk.

Where's the evidence for this? I'm not believing the hype...

If there was quantifiable evidence of this, there would be a big pile of lawsuits. You should know this.

[Cupidity]

Remember you can only be a URM admit for so many years... until you become a diversity hire.

[D Brooks]

Remember you can only be a URM admit for so many years... until you become a diversity hire.

Late to the party and also not funny.

[YCrevolution]

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[D Brooks]

So you'll be wearing your UChicago t-shirt to orientation, right?

Whoa, I just remembered I'm still on their waitlist.

[09042014]

So you'll be wearing your UChicago t-shirt to orientation, right?

Whoa, I just remembered I'm still on their waitlist.

Waitlists are a myth this year.

[APimpNamedSlickback]

x

[najumobi]

So you'll be wearing your UChicago t-shirt to orientation, right?

Whoa, I just remembered I'm still on their waitlist.

Waitlists are a myth this year.

explain?

[miamiman]

So you'll be wearing your UChicago t-shirt to orientation, right?

Whoa, I just remembered I'm still on their waitlist.

Waitlists are a myth this year.

good morning, DF. that is all.

[09042014]

So you'll be wearing your UChicago t-shirt to orientation, right?

Whoa, I just remembered I'm still on their waitlist.

Waitlists are a myth this year.

explain?

Waitlist movement has been very slow. Some schools like UVA and Duke are over enrolled. Chances of getting off a waitlist are lower than they were in the past (which even then was low).

[hiromoto45]

Well Columbia's waitlist letter seemed rather optimistic. Harvard pulled quite a few from the waitlist, URM and Non-URM this cycle. But there has been no movement on the UChicago waitlist. I guess it depends on the school.

[najumobi]

Whoa, I just remembered I'm still on their waitlist.

Waitlists are a myth this year.

explain?

Waitlist movement has been very slow. Some schools like UVA and Duke are over enrolled. Chances of getting off a waitlist are lower than they were in the past (which even then was low).

oh damn. this is very different from what many TLSers projected would happen--that b/c applicants applied to a lot more schools than normal schools would have a harder time figuring out the number of those who would enroll and thus use their waitlists more.

[vanwinkle]

Can't your parents pay your tuition? Or are they still mad at you for that trip to the Rose Bowl you charged on their card?

[D Brooks]

Can't your parents pay your tuition? Or are they still mad at you for that trip to the Rose Bowl you charged on their card?

It was the Sugar Bowl.

My parents have always made it clear to my sisters and I that they'd cover our UG tabs but would be done after that. They were nice enough to agree to buy me a new laptop and cover all moving expenses though.

[stratocophic]

So you'll be wearing your UChicago t-shirt to orientation, right?

Whoa, I just remembered I'm still on their waitlist.

Waitlists are a myth this year.

This. Wrong year to be a splitter.

[Grizz]

I'm ORM dude, big difference.

I feel your pain, MC.

[hiromoto45]

I'm ORM dude, big difference.

I feel your pain, MC.

When it comes to employment, Asians qualify as diversity.

[miamiman]

I'm ORM dude, big difference.

I feel your pain, MC.

When it comes to employment, Asians qualify as diversity.

nothing I've read suggests this

[Cosmo Kramer]

Remember you can only be a URM admit for so many years... until you become a diversity hire.

Late to the party and also not funny.

Cmon man. If you get a URM bump, at least have a sense of humor about it!

[09042014]

Remember you can only be a URM admit for so many years... until you become a diversity hire.

Late to the party and also not funny.

Cmon man. If you get a URM bump, at least have a sense of humor about it!

40 Acres and 10 pts on the LSAT.

[SwollenMonkey]

I got approved for my GradPlus loan from the govt the other day and my stomach turned looking at the 5 figure loan I'll be taking out yearly to go to law school. I'm not going to be sticker exactly, but my paltry scholarship still makes it seem that way.

Additionally, I'm having second thoughts about not taking the half-tuition scholarship I got at a lower T14.

How is this fail? You are now, I'm sure, in the same boat as other applicants and students. Were you knocked down to the Land of Humility?

Which URM are you?