Harvard Transfer Waiting Thread 2014 Forum

[toothbrush]

Current Status: Application Ready for Review

Up top it reads: "Your application to Harvard Law School is complete. This means that we have received and assembled all required materials and submitted your application for review."

This is usually the last update until admits start going out. (Last year admits were transmitted via status checker of all things, haha)

Congrats.

I'm sitting on the same but 6/18. Brace yourself for the long haul.

[pluto111]

Really hope decisions come out sooner than early to mid july since they made the application deadline earlier

[toothbrush]

Really hope decisions come out sooner than early to mid july since they made the application deadline earlier

my guess was 6/30. We'll see if that holds true.

[Nebby]

Current Status: Application Ready for Review

Up top it reads: "Your application to Harvard Law School is complete. This means that we have received and assembled all required materials and submitted your application for review."

This is usually the last update until admits start going out. (Last year admits were transmitted via status checker of all things, haha)

Congrats.

I'm sitting on the same but 6/18. Brace yourself for the long haul.

You too comrade! Though I have faith betwene the two of us we'll both get into at least one of NYU/CLS/HLS.

[pluto111]

Really hope decisions come out sooner than early to mid july since they made the application deadline earlier

my guess was 6/30. We'll see if that holds true.

6/30 sounds like a reasonable guess

[RollTide45]

Current Status: Application Ready for Review

Up top it reads: "Your application to Harvard Law School is complete. This means that we have received and assembled all required materials and submitted your application for review."

This is usually the last update until admits start going out. (Last year admits were transmitted via status checker of all things, haha)

Congrats.

I'm sitting on the same but 6/18. Brace yourself for the long haul.

You too comrade! Though I have faith betwene the two of us we'll both get into at least one of NYU/CLS/HLS.

CN,

Also ready for review over here.
Ironic that you and I went complete on the same day as well with our similar(ish) stats.

[coffeenated]

Hey guys, throwaway account here. Didn't expect to see it, since my official transcript apparently hasn't gotten there yet (though I'd emailed in an unofficial version) but apparently my application also went ready for review today(!) :S

[toothbrush]

Hey guys, throwaway account here. Didn't expect to see it but apparently my application also went ready for review today(!) :S

Congrats, welcome to wait. PM stats ?

[coffeenated]

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[Nebby]

Hah. I used he same PS for all four schools I applied to and just changed some references to the school's particular clinic or journal etc. Transfer admissions is mostly just a numbers game so unless you are a convicted felon or admit to beastiality in your PS then you're good.

[heavoldgotjuice]

Hah. I used he same PS for all four schools I applied to and just changed some references to the school's particular clinic or journal etc. Transfer admissions is mostly just a numbers game so unless you are a convicted felon or admit to beastiality in your PS then you're good.

Diversity Statement:

"Yes, I come from quite a diverse background. Growing up in suburban America typically generates docile robots. However, I am a convicted felon with a fetish for beastiality, and have done exceedingly well in the cut-throat environments of both prison and law school..."

Maybe?

[Nebby]

Hahaha.

Also, I wonder how many white dudes do diversity statements. I'd fucking love to read that shit.

[philippian413]

The WAIT continues.

[toothbrush]

The WAIT continues.

no one should post in this thread til the status tracker updates.. You made me shit bricks.

[randomstudent]

Went under review.

[jacki3]

Hahaha.

Also, I wonder how many white dudes do diversity statements. I'd fucking love to read that shit.

atleast one:
http://abovethelaw.com/2014/05/easiest- ... ure-white/

[randomstudent]

Pulled some transfer admissions data from https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/transferapps/info, culled it to make it Harvard-specific, reorganized it, and uploaded it Scribd. You can download the full Excel spreadsheet from http://www.scribd.com/doc/231745527/HLS ... -2005-2009. It has data from 105 applications to Harvard. The data is several years old (2005-2009), but I found it interesting nevertheless.

[jacki3]

Pulled some transfer admissions data from https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/transferapps/info, culled it to make it Harvard-specific, reorganized it, and uploaded it Scribd. You can download the full Excel spreadsheet from http://www.scribd.com/doc/231745527/HLS ... -2005-2009. It has data from 105 applications to Harvard. The data is several years old (2005-2009), but I found it interesting nevertheless.

No offense, but 05-09 data is ancient history for law school admissions based on the major shifts that have gone on

[randomstudent]

Pulled some transfer admissions data from https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/transferapps/info, culled it to make it Harvard-specific, reorganized it, and uploaded it Scribd. You can download the full Excel spreadsheet from http://www.scribd.com/doc/231745527/HLS ... -2005-2009. It has data from 105 applications to Harvard. The data is several years old (2005-2009), but I found it interesting nevertheless.

No offense, but 05-09 data is ancient history for law school admissions based on the major shifts that have gone on

Fair enough. I'm not sure how much weight to give to this data myself, but I find it interesting nevertheless.

[George Washington]

Pulled some transfer admissions data from https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/transferapps/info, culled it to make it Harvard-specific, reorganized it, and uploaded it Scribd. You can download the full Excel spreadsheet from http://www.scribd.com/doc/231745527/HLS ... -2005-2009. It has data from 105 applications to Harvard. The data is several years old (2005-2009), but I found it interesting nevertheless.

No offense, but 05-09 data is ancient history for law school admissions based on the major shifts that have gone on

Major shifts? Did it get easier or harder to transfer in since then?

[randomstudent]

Pulled some transfer admissions data from https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/transferapps/info, culled it to make it Harvard-specific, reorganized it, and uploaded it Scribd. You can download the full Excel spreadsheet from http://www.scribd.com/doc/231745527/HLS ... -2005-2009. It has data from 105 applications to Harvard. The data is several years old (2005-2009), but I found it interesting nevertheless.

No offense, but 05-09 data is ancient history for law school admissions based on the major shifts that have gone on

Major shifts? Did it get easier or harder to transfer in since then?

I think the general trend for many law schools in recent years has been to take more transfers. See http://insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot. ... -game.html ("There's some evidence that this practice of pumping up law school revenues by admitting hordes of transfer students -- nearly a quarter of FSU's 2Ls and 3Ls are transfers! -- has intensified over the past five years. We don't have data for 2011 yet, but I checked the numbers for several schools for 2006-2010, and here are the number of transfers they admitted."); http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/arti ... e_schools/ ("David Logan, dean of Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, R.I., says there’s been a drastic increase in transfer students in recent years."); cf. http://www.swlaw.edu/pdfs/jle/jle604Rensberger.pdf (noting that the number of transfers into ABA-accredited law schools in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 were 2,265, 2,324, 2,400, and 2,333, respectively). That being said, I haven't seen specific stats for Harvard. Also, I suppose [taking more transfers] does not necessarily = [taking applicants with worse stats].

[philippian413]

You would think schools would do that but when I spoke to two schools in the T10 they want to keep the size small I believe to show the prestige and so forth which makes no sense.

[Nebby]

You would think schools would do that but when I spoke to two schools in the T10 they want to keep the size small I believe to show the prestige and so forth which makes no sense.

This sentence confuses me. What are you saying?

[philippian413]

You would think schools would do that but when I spoke to two schools in the T10 they want to keep the size small I believe to show the prestige and so forth which makes no sense.

This sentence confuses me. What are you saying?

Sorry typing on a small screen. I spoke to two, T10 schools. They plan to keep the transfer admission size small which I think makes no sense. I believe this is due to the prestige they want keep of the school.

[Nebby]

Ah. I guess it depends what they mean by "small." I consider anything over 30 to be big. HLS, NYU, CLS all had over 40 last year.