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I'm pretty sure there was no mistake the first time. My GPA sucks badly, so I wasn't expecting to be admitted originally. The LSAT increase made the difference.amputatedbrain wrote:Wow! I knew it was theoretically possible, but I'd never actually heard of it happening before, unless the school had made a mistake on your application or something like that. Big congrats . . . I'm sure this is going to be TLS legend . . .
I don't understand what you mean by this.Cale39 wrote:While you definitely kicked some ass on the LSAT (congrats!), the method by which you appealed is not simply sending in a few letters after being rejected. What you did was incredible but totally out of the norm. Just wanted to put it into perspective.
So yeah, you can definitely appeal a rejection, but you've got to (at least in this case) bauss the LSAT
Thanks. I think it proves that it is largely a numbers game, which pretty much everyone knows. My softs didn't change at all, no new LORs, no more work experience, etc., just a new LSAT. I don't know if you were implying something worse about the admissions process, though...Kakarot wrote:I am really happy for you, and this is an awesome story. But, what does this really say about the admissions process?!?
Ahh, just didn't want people to use your unique situation as fodder for "hey, if you're rejected, it's not a problem, tons of people get in on appeal"Andrew the Wolverine wrote:I don't understand what you mean by this.Cale39 wrote:While you definitely kicked some ass on the LSAT (congrats!), the method by which you appealed is not simply sending in a few letters after being rejected. What you did was incredible but totally out of the norm. Just wanted to put it into perspective.
So yeah, you can definitely appeal a rejection, but you've got to (at least in this case) bauss the LSAT
Actually, I have no idea what my chances are of going there because I have applied to 22 schools and I was rejected from 11 of them, and I appealed all of them. I figured that an appeal is free, except for the few minutes spent sending the email, so appealing all of them was worth a shot. I don't know if that goes against some sort of protocol, but that's what I did.adameus wrote:You can call it a numbers game, which may be true, but the fact that they like good numbers is probably largely due to the fact that a large # means you are a smart person and that is what they are looking for. They saw your new LSAT and said, "Shit this guy is smarter than we thought, lets let him in". Congratulations by the way! I assume since you went through the effort of appealing their decision that it is likely you will go there?
Andrew the Wolverine wrote:Actually, I have no idea what my chances are of going there because I have applied to 22 schools and I was rejected from 11 of them, and I appealed all of them. I figured that an appeal is free, except for the few minutes spent sending the email, so appealing all of them was worth a shot. I don't know if that goes against some sort of protocol, but that's what I did.adameus wrote:You can call it a numbers game, which may be true, but the fact that they like good numbers is probably largely due to the fact that a large # means you are a smart person and that is what they are looking for. They saw your new LSAT and said, "Shit this guy is smarter than we thought, lets let him in". Congratulations by the way! I assume since you went through the effort of appealing their decision that it is likely you will go there?
To be honest, you are now my TLS hero.. This is amazing and you need to keep us updated.Andrew the Wolverine wrote:Actually, I have no idea what my chances are of going there because I have applied to 22 schools and I was rejected from 11 of them, and I appealed all of them. I figured that an appeal is free, except for the few minutes spent sending the email, so appealing all of them was worth a shot. I don't know if that goes against some sort of protocol, but that's what I did.adameus wrote:You can call it a numbers game, which may be true, but the fact that they like good numbers is probably largely due to the fact that a large # means you are a smart person and that is what they are looking for. They saw your new LSAT and said, "Shit this guy is smarter than we thought, lets let him in". Congratulations by the way! I assume since you went through the effort of appealing their decision that it is likely you will go there?
Lol thanks, I'll keep posting whatever decisions I get. Now if I can turn my UVa rejection into an admission (i'd guess less than 1% chance of that happening), that would be a turnaround of biblical proportionsKakarot wrote:To be honest, you are now my TLS hero.. This is amazing and you need to keep us updated.Andrew the Wolverine wrote:Actually, I have no idea what my chances are of going there because I have applied to 22 schools and I was rejected from 11 of them, and I appealed all of them. I figured that an appeal is free, except for the few minutes spent sending the email, so appealing all of them was worth a shot. I don't know if that goes against some sort of protocol, but that's what I did.adameus wrote:You can call it a numbers game, which may be true, but the fact that they like good numbers is probably largely due to the fact that a large # means you are a smart person and that is what they are looking for. They saw your new LSAT and said, "Shit this guy is smarter than we thought, lets let him in". Congratulations by the way! I assume since you went through the effort of appealing their decision that it is likely you will go there?
chutzpah wrote:Congrats!! Great story and amazing LSAT improvement. I admire your tenacity.
I appealed my rejections at NYU and HLS because I got a 174 on my February LSAT after applying with an earlier 165. NYU is reconsidering but won't let me know until all other decisions are made, which they estimate as late May, and HLS has not responded and I don't expect them to. Its true that the actual appeal takes a few minutes and some guts and might seriously change your options.
Well I have George Mason ranked above Wisconsin in my own personal rankings, but I still have 15 schools left to hear from, so I'm just going to wait it out. I'm just glad to have options, because with my last LSAT i would likely only have had 1 option (Iowa). Iowa is great, but I didn't want to only have 1 school to pick from.kurla88 wrote:Hah. That is an amazing score increase, congratulations! Are you going to stick with Wisconsin or try for something even better?
big ups for the Halo reference.bigchris1313 wrote:Congratulations, Wolverine. Rising from the dead is quite the party trick. Extremely impressive. Turning two rejects to admits is the stuff that dreams--nay, legends!--are made of.
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I played Halo once in college, and I died a lot...acdisagod wrote:big ups for the Halo reference.bigchris1313 wrote:Congratulations, Wolverine. Rising from the dead is quite the party trick. Extremely impressive. Turning two rejects to admits is the stuff that dreams--nay, legends!--are made of.
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