What Constitutes an Early App Forum

[Fred_McGriff]

In you opinion, or in a law school's opinion.

Is it by early Sept, Oct, or before Thanksgiving? Anything before Christmas?

Thoughts?

[St.Remy]

In you opinion, or in a law school's opinion.

Is it by early Sept, Oct, or before Thanksgiving? Anything before Christmas?

Thoughts?

Before Thanksgiving is considered early in the world at large, but I think that on TLS early is really before October scores come out. That's when you know you're ahead of the glut of applications. After October scores you might still be before the majority of applicants, but I would personally not consider it very early.

[Fred_McGriff]

Nice. When do October scores come out?

Besides being a law school applicant, I'm also a nice guy, so I'm updating my LSN account to help out other people (also to have a consolidated record of where I applied when). Should I change those statuses to an early app if I submitted them before today?

[LSATEr1]

applying after fordhams oct 15th early action deadline still considered "EARLY"?
is there a difference between oct 15 and 16th regarding admissions??
is it worth rushing my application to meet the deadline or better to not to rush it..?

tnx

[ahduth]

Nice. When do October scores come out?

Besides being a law school applicant, I'm also a nice guy...

Score by E-mail (For online account holders only. No additional charge.) November 1, 2010

Are you really Fred McGriff?

[Sandro]

Oct29th scores come online

[sgtgrumbles]

Nice. When do October scores come out?

Besides being a law school applicant, I'm also a nice guy...

Score by E-mail (For online account holders only. No additional charge.) November 1, 2010

Are you really Fred McGriff?

Being the crime dog is a pretty sick soft for law school.

[bk1]

Being the crime dog is a pretty sick soft for law school.

So is two decades in the major leagues.

[existenz]

By 11/15 is ideal.

[Fred_McGriff]

Being the crime dog is a pretty sick soft for law school.

So is two decades in the major leagues.

Winning a world series with the Braves, making it to the All Star Game 5 times, and being All Star MVP in 1994 isn't a soft, it's a hard.

[Birdlaw]

Crime Dog, why couldn't you stay in the majors to get to 500 homers. You were so close!

[Ship87]

I still haven't submitted my apps because I just cannot finish my PS . Is after Thanksgiving a killer? I have a 3.75 and a 177 Oct and 171 June LSAT, looking somewhere in CCN.

[northwood]

a lot of applications go out after thanksgiving. There are still some schools who will accept applications, but wont start looking at them until mid december, and some schools will make a decision, and wont tell you until january.

I would guess that a lot of students will finish their essays over thanksgiving break and apply. More will wait until the end of finals and submit everything before the New Year.

[ahduth]

I still haven't submitted my apps because I just cannot finish my PS . Is after Thanksgiving a killer? I have a 3.75 and a 177 Oct and 171 June LSAT, looking somewhere in CCN.

I was able to network my way around, and found someone who was formerly employed as an admissions officer at law school, not CCN or T14 or anything, but his comment was he probably read about 15,000 applications during his time there. His estimate of the number of personal statements he actually found memorable?

Five.

His estimate of how significant a contribution your personal statement makes to your overall application?

One percent.

I wish I'd not dicked around with mine for an extra two weeks.

[wiseguy33]

I was able to network my way around, and found someone who was formerly employed as an admissions officer at law school, not CCN or T14 or anything, but his comment was he probably read about 15,000 applications during his time there. His estimate of the number of personal statements he actually found memorable?

Five.

His estimate of how significant a contribution your personal statement makes to your overall application?

One percent.

I wish I'd not dicked around with mine for an extra two weeks.

This is pretty much what I expected going in, but I still waited till late Oct, finalizing my PS, because you never know...

Also, I'm a splitter and apparently everything counts 100x in that case.

[Balliol2012]

"Early" is a vague predicate. It is clear that applying right at the deadline is not early, and definitely late, it is not so clear whether applications in October are early. In fact, if epistemicism about vagueness - a theory in philosophical logic espoused by Timothy Williamson and others - then there is a fact of the matter about when an application is, in fact, late. But we cannot ever know where this borderline lies exactly. We know, most likely, that it lies somewhere in between October and Christmas, but not exactly where. That brings us to the issue of higher order vagueness. We do not know where the borderline exactly lies, but we claim to know some borderlines of a rough range of where the actual borderline could fall. The borderlines are fuzzy as well, though. We cannot know where they lie either.

Does this answer your question?

[JJDancer]

I still haven't submitted my apps because I just cannot finish my PS . Is after Thanksgiving a killer? I have a 3.75 and a 177 Oct and 171 June LSAT, looking somewhere in CCN.

Sigh yeah my PS is killing me. I really hope I can stick to my Thanksgiving deadline!!!!!!!! But I sort of doubt it