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Long acceptance wait, scholarship pending?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:34 pm
by lepradillo
I'm above the top 75% applicants and will be accepted without question...
Is there a chance the longer they take, they're debating a scholarship offer?

Re: Long acceptance wait, scholarship pending?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:35 pm
by Nom Sawyer
lepradillo wrote:I'm above the top 75% applicants
and will be accepted without question...
Is there a chance the longer they take, they're debating a scholarship offer?

I dunno about this, sounds more like a YP waitlist is coming up
Re: Long acceptance wait, scholarship pending?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:37 pm
by lepradillo
YP?
Re: Long acceptance wait, scholarship pending?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:38 pm
by amolson04
yield protect.
Re: Long acceptance wait, scholarship pending?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:40 pm
by Drake014
lepradillo wrote:I'm above the top 75% applicants and will be accepted without question...
Is there a chance the longer they take, they're debating a scholarship offer?

You need to send a LOCI. There is no "accepted without question."
Re: Long acceptance wait, scholarship pending?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:45 pm
by lepradillo
Re: Long acceptance wait, scholarship pending?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:54 pm
by Nom Sawyer
May be true for Michigan... but they do state this:
A decision not to admit a well-qualified candidate for no reason other than a belief that he or she won’t enroll is “yield protecting” and inappropriate—but it’s pretty rare in making an admissions decision that there is just one isolated motivation. There’s a lot of gray. All that gray is why some schools choose to adopt holistic admissions policies in the first place, and to employ humans to implement them in a very time-consuming process, rather than just constructing algorithms and going about the process blind to any factor that doesn’t fit in a database.
So, maybe not directly WLing just because people might not attend, but still being a factor that makes up part of the "grey" area.
UVA, on the other hand, seems quite blatant:
http://uva.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/?whichCycle=0910
Re: Long acceptance wait, scholarship pending?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:00 pm
by lepradillo
I've decided it's pointless to stress about this at the moment, they were on Spring Break last week.