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dscgrant wrote:It's been a very weird cycle for me. Was wondering if anyone has experienced the same thing.

3.55 GPA
169 Oct
174 Dec

Submitted all apps except Yale around Jan 9th. Results so far:

Yale - ? (though you can guess how it will turn out)
Harvard - Deny 3rd week March
Stanford - Deny 3rd week March
Columbia - Held 1st week March, still waiting
Chicago - Currently UR 3/27
NYU - UR 1/14 (you're killing me)
Berkeley - Deny late 1st week March
Penn - Currently UR 3/23
Virginia - Waitlisted 3rd week March
Michigan - Waitlisted 4th week March
Duke - Waitlisted 4th week March
Northwestern - Accepted April, $90k Scholarship
Georgetown - Interviewed two days ago
Cornell - Interview requested
UCLA - silence
UT - Accepted 2nd week March, no news on $$$
Vanderbilt - Accepted late April, $25k a year
USC - Accepted 3rd week March, NO $$$
Minnesota - Accepted late April early march, full ride

I know this is an extraordinary cycle, but I feel like I'm getting a colder shoulder from everyone than I should. Except Northwestern, which is really confusing me! They were the first school to accept me, and except for Minnesota, they have given me more money than anyone else.

The only difference I can think of is that they only took one letter of recommendation. Is it possible that I was screwed by my second recommender, or did I just apply to late?

Thanks in advance for the feedback.

TripTrip wrote:That's not a weird cycle for your numbers, OP.

beepboopbeep wrote:

TripTrip wrote:That's not a weird cycle for your numbers, OP.

Isn't it? 173/3.61 late applicant here, and in at CLS/NYU($$), held at H and still under review at a lot of these other places. But OP's undergrad institution may come into play; mine was known for fighting grade inflation and being generally pretty tough.

TripTrip wrote:That's not a weird cycle for your numbers, OP.

Regulus wrote:You didn't get in because of any combination of the following reasons:

-Submitted application later in the cycle
-Very low GPA (<3.6) but not extremely high LSAT (>177)
-Issues with application (shitty PS, unimpressive resume, bad LoRs, typos, etc.)

dscgrant wrote:I think I'm mostly surprised over NYU. I thought I had a much better chance after looking at LSN.

TripTrip wrote:

dscgrant wrote:I think I'm mostly surprised over NYU. I thought I had a much better chance after looking at LSN.

I know it's not really talked about much over in the NYU thread, but anecdotally there are still some traditionally solid candidates that haven't heard back from NYU yet. I'm a 175/4.0/public service record with no word. My cycle has been strange too, but NYU must be doing something other than looking at the numbers.

Though, do you happen to have a minor C&F violation? I've got a random traffic ticket, and from what I've seen NYU takes a long time to evaluate anyone who checks a C&F box.

TripTrip wrote:

dscgrant wrote:I think I'm mostly surprised over NYU. I thought I had a much better chance after looking at LSN.

I know it's not really talked about much over in the NYU thread, but anecdotally there are still some traditionally solid candidates that haven't heard back from NYU yet. I'm a 175/4.0/public service record with no word. My cycle has been strange too, but NYU must be doing something other than looking at the numbers.

Though, do you happen to have a minor C&F violation? I've got a random traffic ticket, and from what I've seen NYU takes a long time to evaluate anyone who checks a C&F box.

Crowing wrote:It's a weird cycle because OP has apparently already been to April 2013 before the rest of us.

RodneyRuxin wrote:

Crowing wrote:It's a weird cycle because OP has apparently already been to April 2013 before the rest of us.

chadbrochill wrote:

Ti Malice wrote:OP, you're almost certainly waitlisted at Michigan and UVA for yield-protection purposes; they're skeptical that you'll attend with those numbers. The same thing will probably happen with Penn. Did you write "Why X?" essays for these schools? Have you sent LOCIs? You really need to make them believe you have a strong interest in attending. You might even get significant money off the WL. You probably wouldn't get enough to give up NU, but you might get enough to do some scholarship negotiation between schools.

Isn't yield protection usually for 75+/75+ percentile GPA/LSAT applicants? I feel like its abit faux pas to think we're getting yield protected with a ~25th percentile GPA. Although if it were true it could probably explain a lot of my cycle and I wouldn't be so worried about red flags in my app.

Tiago Splitter wrote:These schools YP splitters all the time because they don't plan to give those splitters enough money to convince them to attend over higher ranked schools.