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I'm about to pull the trigger on these applications. After all the hours studying in undergrad, hundreds of hours and dollars on LSAT material, three LSAT attempts, recommendation requests, transcript conversion arguments with LSAC and two months of personal statement editing, I am finally done with my applications and I am absolutely terrified. I am about to enter into a world in which I have no control and just have to wait and wait.

Someone please remind me that the only thing schools give a shit about is my LSAT/GPA and one typo that I may have missed in my many application edits will not make or break me.

You're golden! A small typo, if your apps even contain one, will not break you. AdComms look at thousands of apps per cycle, and their chances of noticing something small are slim. Plus you've got a great shot at every school CCN on down with your GPA/LSAT.

Pull the trigger, have a drink or two, relax, forget about law school stuff for a little while.

seagan823 wrote:I'm about to pull the trigger on these applications. After all the hours studying in undergrad, hundreds of hours and dollars on LSAT material, three LSAT attempts, recommendation requests, transcript conversion arguments with LSAC and two months of personal statement editing, I am finally done with my applications and I am absolutely terrified. I am about to enter into a world in which I have no control and just have to wait and wait.

Someone please remind me that the only thing schools give a shit about is my LSAT/GPA and one typo that I may have missed in my many application edits will not make or break me.

Why don't you print out one of your applications and have someone double check it? Might give you some peace of mind.

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Thanks guys. I appreciate the support. Sent out applications everywhere but the two schools I am writing PI scholarship apps for, so I'm feeling pretty good.

flowering wrote:

seagan823 wrote:I'm about to pull the trigger on these applications. After all the hours studying in undergrad, hundreds of hours and dollars on LSAT material, three LSAT attempts, recommendation requests, transcript conversion arguments with LSAC and two months of personal statement editing, I am finally done with my applications and I am absolutely terrified. I am about to enter into a world in which I have no control and just have to wait and wait.

Someone please remind me that the only thing schools give a shit about is my LSAT/GPA and one typo that I may have missed in my many application edits will not make or break me.

What exactly did those arguments entail?

I studied abroad at the American University in Cairo. All of my grades converted as letter grades to my home university and appeared on my transcript. However, LSAC included neither the transfer credits nor the grades in my transcript summary. My transcript summary looked like I hadn't completed the necessary number of credits to graduate. When I called they looked over my transcript from my home university and told me they had made a mistake.

Unfortunately for me the mistake was that they didn't tell me I needed to request my transcript from AUC when they initially converted my transcript. I told the guy I had read over the directions for transcripts requests carefully and it said I didn't have to request my study abroad transcript since I was only there a semester. He told me that I hadn't misread anything, but that AUC was one of 8 non-US institutions they considered to be domestic institutions for purposes of transcript summarization. I had to call AUC and get it sent.

I got to pay AUC 40 bucks to have them send my transcript overnight. However, since LSAC doesn't let you check to see if a transcript has been received and take forever to transcribe it, I waited 10 days before calling AUC to ask what was up. They then let me know I owed them 210 dollars from 2010 and I had to pay it. I had to wire them the money and then wait. I should have been able to apply before Thanksgiving but instead couldn't apply until this week.

/endrant

I know that is way more information than anyone asked for, but I guess I needed to vent. I did things right, read the rules and requested my transcript at the end of october. Because LSAC and AUC had monopolies on the things I need to apply to law school, I had to pay out the ass to have them screw up and take their sweet tie.

On the plus side, I had a 3.93 that semester abroad, so I got a .04 bump in my GPA. I just had to pay $265.00 for it.