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Does anyone else ever have incredibly false hope that something miraculous will happen and completely change how your cycle will go?

I.E. - The admissions dean of X school, your dream school, will suddenly decide that they MUST no longer have their GPA floor and that admitting splitters is clearly the only way to preserve their medians.

I daydream about this and check LSN furiously hoping some evidence of this will appear.

In other words, I'm a little like this guy, Elder Price from the Book of Mormon (the musical, not the actual thing):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHEqCXY2B-w

This thread is going places on TLS....

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Don't get your hopes up.. but good luck

Wait and see until we have a clearer picture of many people will apply this year. We can infer that from Jun and Oct LSAT data.
2011 applicants were down 10% v. 2010, and schools had to either lower their standards or decrease class sizes. Another 10% drop this cycle and your wishes could turn into reality.
From a financial stand, schools can only decrease their class sizes so much; after that, standards will have to drop.

scammedhard wrote:Wait and see until we have a clearer picture of many people will apply this year. We can infer that from Jun and Oct LSAT data.
2011 applicants were down 10% v. 2010, and schools had to either lower their standards or decrease class sizes. Another 10% drop this year and your miracle could turn into reality.
From a financial stand, schools can only decrease their class sizes so much; after that, standards will have to drop.

You, sir, are adding fuel to my fire. Thanks. : )

scammedhard wrote:Wait and see until we have a clearer picture of many people will apply this year. We can infer that from Jun and Oct LSAT data.
2011 applicants were down 10% v. 2010, and schools had to either lower their standards or decrease class sizes. Another 10% drop this cycle and your wishes could turn into reality.
From a financial stand, schools can only decrease their class sizes so much; after that, standards will have to drop.

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scammedhard wrote:Wait and see until we have a clearer picture of many people will apply this year. We can infer that from Jun and Oct LSAT data.
2011 applicants were down 10% v. 2010, and schools had to either lower their standards or decrease class sizes. Another 10% drop this cycle and your wishes could turn into reality.
From a financial stand, schools can only decrease their class sizes so much; after that, standards will have to drop.

This is what I'm praying for too..

I sometimes dream that my score comes in and it is far better than expected, solving all of my problems.

I have honestly had dreams of being at Yale the more than one in the last week.

Edit: Sleeping dreams, not daydreams, but I have those too.

I'm hoping some of the T30s I'm targetting will start handing out more $$ to people above the LSAT median so they can stay competitive. Hopefully the lower T14 will take some more splitters to keep their medians up but I think that's a bit of a pipedream.

I had very similar dreams as you all and last cycle they actually came true. Don't give up and APPLY EVERYWHERE.

shoeshine wrote:I had very similar dreams as you all and last cycle they actually came true. Don't give up and APPLY EVERYWHERE.

What happened that was out of the ordinary?

minnbills wrote:

shoeshine wrote:I had very similar dreams as you all and last cycle they actually came true. Don't give up and APPLY EVERYWHERE.

What happened that was out of the ordinary?

T-14 with money at a school that LSP had me as a weak consider at.

shoeshine wrote:

minnbills wrote:

shoeshine wrote:I had very similar dreams as you all and last cycle they actually came true. Don't give up and APPLY EVERYWHERE.

What happened that was out of the ordinary?

T-14 with money at a school that LSP had me as a weak consider at.

Stats?

scammedhard wrote:Wait and see until we have a clearer picture of many people will apply this year. We can infer that from Jun and Oct LSAT data.
2011 applicants were down 10% v. 2010, and schools had to either lower their standards or decrease class sizes. Another 10% drop this cycle and your wishes could turn into reality.
From a financial stand, schools can only decrease their class sizes so much; after that, standards will have to drop.

Would schools not cut back on scholarships and financial aid first?

slacker wrote:

scammedhard wrote:Wait and see until we have a clearer picture of many people will apply this year. We can infer that from Jun and Oct LSAT data.
2011 applicants were down 10% v. 2010, and schools had to either lower their standards or decrease class sizes. Another 10% drop this cycle and your wishes could turn into reality.
From a financial stand, schools can only decrease their class sizes so much; after that, standards will have to drop.

Would schools not cut back on scholarships and financial aid first?

Scholarships and financial aid directly affect decisions to attend; therefore, if scholarships and financial aid are cut, we'd get the same result: smaller class sizes or lower medians.