Yale Transfer Waiting Thread (2014) Forum

[FSK]

congrats to everyone who was accepted!

question: would you have been strong candidates for acceptance if you would have applied as 0Ls? e.g. 3.9 undergrad GPA / 175+ LSAT?

Eh, I would have had a chance, but I would not have felt confident in it. I had an undergrad GPA of 3.96 (3.95 at the time I was applying) and an LSAT score of 169. As far as getting into Yale goes, transferring in after a year was probably a better choice.

This is highly misleading. Presumably you had to do very well in law school to transfer. There was a 90%+ chance you would not have any shot at getting into Yale via transfer when you started 1L - unless you are arguing you knew ex ante you'd be more capable than nearly all your peers, which isn't possible. No one has a "strong" shot at admission to Yale as an 0L, but for future readers if you're at 3.95/169 and you want yale, your chances are much greater retaking for 173+ and applying then for first year admission than rolling the proverbial dice on being at the top of your 1L class at another school.

I'm not trying to diminish your accomplishment being top of the class - actually, quite the opposite.

As always, the correct answer was retake.

[Longtimecoming19]

congrats to everyone who was accepted!

question: would you have been strong candidates for acceptance if you would have applied as 0Ls? e.g. 3.9 undergrad GPA / 175+ LSAT?

Eh, I would have had a chance, but I would not have felt confident in it. I had an undergrad GPA of 3.96 (3.95 at the time I was applying) and an LSAT score of 169. As far as getting into Yale goes, transferring in after a year was probably a better choice.

This is highly misleading. Presumably you had to do very well in law school to transfer. There was a 90%+ chance you would not have any shot at getting into Yale via transfer when you started 1L - unless you are arguing you knew ex ante you'd be more capable than nearly all your peers, which isn't possible. No one has a "strong" shot at admission to Yale as an 0L, but for future readers if you're at 3.95/169 and you want yale, your chances are much greater retaking for 173+ and applying then for first year admission than rolling the proverbial dice on being at the top of your 1L class at another school.

I'm not trying to diminish your accomplishment being top of the class - actually, quite the opposite.

As always, the correct answer was retake.

Of course.

[randomstudent]

Dinged at 9:47 p.m. by email.

[Spikedude]

Dinged. so sad.

[Longtimecoming19]

yikes