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Thank You Emails

Post by kwabbs » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:18 am

Random question.. Attended a law school panel this evening with representatives of a few different west coast schools. Each representative gave out their personal business cards. Would it be wise to send thank you e-mails to these reps? I did speak to a few of them post panel.

I've been taught to always send thank you's to guest speakers etc. and am curious as to what the guidelines/ regulations are for sending thank you's to the directors of admissions that attended.

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Post by sesto elemento » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:29 am

I wouldn't bother. All they care about is LSAT and GPA.

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by kwabbs » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:31 am

sesto elemento wrote:I wouldn't bother. All they care about is LSAT and GPA.

Boalt Rep said 1/3 LSAT 1/3 GPA and 1/3 LOR/P.S.

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Post by Emma. » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:32 am

I'm not usually a big thank you person, but in this situation I'd say that, if you actually had a substantial conversation with any of these folks after the panel, it couldn't hurt to shoot off an email to thank that person or persons for their time.

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Post by Emma. » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:35 am

kwabbs wrote:
sesto elemento wrote:I wouldn't bother. All they care about is LSAT and GPA.

Boalt Rep said 1/3 LSAT 1/3 GPA and 1/3 LOR/P.S.
Ha. I know a Boalt adcomm. This is sort of true, but only in this way. Maybe 1/3 of applicants (probably much more) are auto-dinged because of their LSAT and GPA. Maybe another third (but probably much less) are auto-accept based on their numbers. Then for the middle third maybe the LOR/PS have some bearing on their application.

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by BigZuck » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:36 am

It won't make any difference but do it if you feel like it

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by gatesome » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:45 am

people are rarely pissed off when they receive a thank you note

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by kwabbs » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:50 am

gatesome wrote:people are rarely pissed off when they receive a thank you note

lol very true.. I was more so worried if there were any regulations about emailing them.. Like if it was something that wasn't allowed type of thing.

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Post by BigZuck » Wed Oct 15, 2014 1:07 am

gatesome wrote:people are rarely pissed off when they receive a thank you note
Some TLSers/people who make hiring decisions are though

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by smile0751 » Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:08 am

After I went to a Law Forum, I sent a thank you email to every person I spoke with. They all responded back very nicely, and I do think keeping those lines of communication open are important. I know for some businesses, they keep the thank you letters and any other correspondence you send in your "potential employee" file and the people making decisions can view them / know that you sent one.

My advice in this situation would be to send an email to anyone you had meaningful conversation with and reference what you spoke about in the email.

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by ChemEng1642 » Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:22 am

smile0751 wrote: My advice in this situation would be to send an email to anyone you had meaningful conversation with.

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Post by tortsandtiaras » Wed Oct 15, 2014 4:10 pm

If it is any consolation, I was planning on sending out thank you notes by mail this weekend to those schools I feel I had an exceptionally great convo with the deans. Good luck!

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Post by 03152016 » Wed Oct 15, 2014 4:41 pm

kwabbs wrote:
sesto elemento wrote:I wouldn't bother. All they care about is LSAT and GPA.

Boalt Rep said 1/3 LSAT 1/3 GPA and 1/3 LOR/P.S.
this is adcomm bullshit meant to increase app $ and decrease offer rate

it's the law school equivalent of those late night infomercials with evangelical faith healers
"we will heal you through the power of the almighty, just send us $100..."
so you send your $100 and when you don't get better you tell yourself you must have not prayed hard enough
of course, some people are cured, which allows the racket to continue

i've never heard of an adcomm telling an applicant not to apply to their school
"oh we're looking at the whole package, we want people with interesting backgrounds, a unique perspective, just send us $100..."

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by JamMasterJ » Wed Oct 15, 2014 4:57 pm

kwabbs wrote:
sesto elemento wrote:I wouldn't bother. All they care about is LSAT and GPA.

Boalt Rep said 1/3 LSAT 1/3 GPA and 1/3 LOR/P.S.
the only reason they say that is to drive up apps and "prove" that URM boosts are part of the total mix of factors (Lie) rather than the only soft factor that matters (Truth).

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by DiniMae » Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:09 pm

Not to hijack, but I received emails from some of the people that I interviewed with (alums, adcomms, etc). Is that standard? Do schools usually extend a thank you first? If so, which?

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by JamMasterJ » Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:23 pm

Brut wrote:
kwabbs wrote:
sesto elemento wrote:I wouldn't bother. All they care about is LSAT and GPA.

Boalt Rep said 1/3 LSAT 1/3 GPA and 1/3 LOR/P.S.
this is adcomm bullshit meant to increase app $ and decrease offer rate

it's the law school equivalent of those late night infomercials with evangelical faith healers
"we will heal you through the power of the almighty, just send us $100..."
so you send your $100 and when you don't get better you tell yourself you must have not prayed hard enough
of course, some people are cured, which allows the racket to continue

i've never heard of an adcomm telling an applicant not to apply to their school
"oh we're looking at the whole package, we want people with interesting backgrounds, a unique perspective, just send us $100..."
I dunno, WUSTL told me I had no shot because of my 3.5 GPA

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by 03152016 » Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:38 pm

you must have spoken to someone truly incompetent
WUSTL's median is only a 3.62 with a 25th percentile at 3.19
3.5 doesn't even hit splitter territory

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by BigZuck » Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:17 pm

Brut wrote:
kwabbs wrote:
sesto elemento wrote:I wouldn't bother. All they care about is LSAT and GPA.

Boalt Rep said 1/3 LSAT 1/3 GPA and 1/3 LOR/P.S.
this is adcomm bullshit meant to increase app $ and decrease offer rate

it's the law school equivalent of those late night infomercials with evangelical faith healers
"we will heal you through the power of the almighty, just send us $100..."
so you send your $100 and when you don't get better you tell yourself you must have not prayed hard enough
of course, some people are cured, which allows the racket to continue

i've never heard of an adcomm telling an applicant not to apply to their school
"oh we're looking at the whole package, we want people with interesting backgrounds, a unique perspective, just send us $100..."
Apparently the OP in this thread was told not to apply: http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 4&t=237874

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by 03152016 » Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:22 pm

they also said he would be a "very strong transfer applicant"

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by BigZuck » Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:24 pm

Brut wrote:they also said he would be a "very strong transfer applicant"
Yeah. Lulz. Weird.

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by 03152016 » Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:24 pm

also, worth noting vandy is on the more transparent end of the law school spectrum, to their credit

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by kwabbs » Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:56 pm

BigZuck wrote:
Brut wrote:
kwabbs wrote:
sesto elemento wrote:I wouldn't bother. All they care about is LSAT and GPA.

Boalt Rep said 1/3 LSAT 1/3 GPA and 1/3 LOR/P.S.
this is adcomm bullshit meant to increase app $ and decrease offer rate

it's the law school equivalent of those late night infomercials with evangelical faith healers
"we will heal you through the power of the almighty, just send us $100..."
so you send your $100 and when you don't get better you tell yourself you must have not prayed hard enough
of course, some people are cured, which allows the racket to continue

i've never heard of an adcomm telling an applicant not to apply to their school
"oh we're looking at the whole package, we want people with interesting backgrounds, a unique perspective, just send us $100..."
Apparently the OP in this thread was told not to apply: http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 4&t=237874

Wait what's the link for? Wasn't told not to apply.. Didn't give them my stats. This was just a response to the question "which do you weigh most heavily" that someone in the group asked.

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by BigZuck » Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:00 pm

Click the link dawg

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Re: Thank You Emails

Post by kwabbs » Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:13 pm

BigZuck wrote:Click the link dawg

Maybe you're not referring to me..my OP was about sending thank you's then pointing out what a boalt rep mentioned.. I am sitting in a car on my phone so I may be missing something here but just not sure what extra curricular activities in law school has anything to do with my OP

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Re: Thank You Emails

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