Isn't the Advantage/Disadv of Applying Early/Late Overblown? Forum

[09042014]

I'm not convinced early helps, but it's clear late hurts.

Though never send out an app with a lower lsat score, or sloppy material to get in early. That is stupid.

[kazu]

http://lawschoolnumbers.com/highsplit12/jd

Have you seen this guy?? 177/3.7, he sent in his apps in February, and he got waitlisted/rejected everywhere including Cornell, Duke, Chicago, Michigan etc...

Perhaps the rest of his app wasn't that great, or maybe it was the result of yield protection, but I would've thought his stats made him safe at a lot of places he got waitlisted/rejected at. If you look at LSN, often the yellow/red dots in "surprising" places (all-green areas, or just on the border) are the apps which were NOT handed in early.

ftfy

Thanks... that was what I meant. Kazu non-caffeinated on Monday mornings = unable to write or speak in coherent sentences.

[Knock]

i single handedly credit my admission at UC to be the result of an early app. hth.

How early did you apply?

And for the purposes of this thread, what are we considering early?

[kazu]

i single handedly credit my admission at UC to be the result of an early app. hth.

How early did you apply?

And for the purposes of this thread, what are we considering early?

I'd think before Thanksgiving = early, January/February = late, anytime in between = "normal"?

[prezidentv8]

If you look at LSN there are many people who's numbers should make them a lock at a particular school getting waitlisted or sometimes even rejected I suspect that applying late is part of the problem

At one school that I got waitlisted at, I got a chance to talk to an adcom during the summer. There was a quote that, paraphrased, went something like "Wow, if you applied earlier --> admit+$"

There's my anecdote, I say it matters plenty.

[Knock]

If you look at LSN there are many people who's numbers should make them a lock at a particular school getting waitlisted or sometimes even rejected I suspect that applying late is part of the problem

At one school that I got waitlisted at, I got a chance to talk to an adcom during the summer. There was a quote that, paraphrased, went something like "Wow, if you applied earlier --> admit+$"

There's my anecdote, I say it matters plenty.

What school? you have pretty similar numbers to me, so i'm pretty curious.