Candidate Referral Service Forum

[lawschoolboundfuture]

Do you recommend signing up for CRS services. Basically it send your info to law schools for those who dont know. Is it worthwhile or will you just get tons of crappy emails.

[rinkrat19]

You will get tons of crappy emails. You will also get application fee waivers to schools according to your LSAT score. They're $50-100 a pop.

[lawschoolboundfuture]

I got a 173 on my lsats would you recommend doing it in late august before applying then you get the weaver and can turn it off after applying to stop getting emails

[R86]

You might miss the weaver if the school decides to send out theyre weavers earlier

[rinkrat19]

I would turn it on now. If you already have your score, I don't know when/if the schools will get your email to send you waivers. You wouldn't want to miss them.

And I never bothered to turn it off, so I don't know if that stops the emails.

I applied last year and I'm still getting pleas from shitty schools like Regent and Concorde to apply.

[Kikero]

I got a 173 on my lsats would you recommend doing it in late august before applying then you get the weaver and can turn it off after applying to stop getting emails

Personally I would just suck it up and accept the junk emails, just delete anything from any school you're not interested in. How many $75-$100 fee waivers would it take for you to feel like your time deleting the emails (which is pretty negligible) was time well spent?

[BVest]

It's definitely worth the crappy BS in order to get the waivers. I got fee waivers at many of the schools I was already applying to.

I also got about 5 or 6 postcards and several emails from Liberty, the most recent starting with an epigraph:

"Dear Mr. BVest, Robert Frost wrote of a traveler, 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…' You too stand at the crossroads of an equally important decision. As you evaluate law schools, I encourage you to keep your ultimate goal in mind. Why attend a law school that will only teach you to pass the bar when you could attend a law school that will also provide the tools for a long and successful career?"

A) I hate epigraphs. I think they're lazy and show a significant lack of creativity or experience in writing. Those of you who are thinking of using an epigraph for your personal statement, don't. They want to know what you have to say, not Robert Frost. (Though apparently it would work for people in Liberty's admissions office.)

B) Is there a more often abused epigraph than The Road Not Taken? Good grief. They didn't even come back to the metaphor to tell me I should take the one less traveled by. If they only wanted to convey that I stood at a crossroads, they could have quoted a blues song.

Not that I have much in common with Liberty anyway, but seriously?

[/hijack rant]

[dolfan0516]

Only reason I even applied to the school that I will be attending (NU) is because they sent me an unexpected fee waiver

[Kikero]

Only reason I even applied to the school that I will be attending (NU) is because they sent me an unexpected fee waiver

+1

Same (even same school)

[rinkrat19]

Only reason I even applied to the school that I will be attending (NU) is because they sent me an unexpected fee waiver

+1

Same (even same school)

Me three (same school too)

[xkcd09]

After you sign up for CRS, 90% of the emails will be spam and 10% will be useful (as in, fee waivers from schools you would consider attending). But that 10% is worth the inbox space that the 90% takes up.

[envisciguy]

CRS is definitely worth it. Yeah, there's tons of worthless emails from schools you've never heard of, but you could also get fee waivers to schools you'd already be applying to. I saved a couple hundred bucks and all three of the schools I ended up choosing between in the end were ones that I got fee waivers from (and I might not have considered them if it weren't for the waivers).

I was wary of the idea at first because I've seen similar things for undergrad that were useless, but I'm glad I signed up for it.

[shifty_eyed]

I signed up for CRS after reading this. I hadn't before because I wanted to avoid spam, and I thought only TTTT schools would send fee-waivers through it.

[nkp007]

Where the weavers at?

[BearState]

173 means the T-14 (minus HYS) will let you apply for free. That is saving a ton of money. Worth deleting email from Hamline or Roger Williams. Plus you can unsubscribe from individual schools after they send you the first letter.

[DocHawkeye]

Where the weavers at?

No school ever sent me a weaver. I could use some new sheets or maybe a nice rug for my living room.

[R86]

You might miss the weaver if the school decides to send out theyre weavers earlier

[Br3v]

Do you have to show interest in a school to get a free waiter offer? (like check a box) or do they just send them out to all certain scores and up? What score is that normally?

[BVest]

Do you have to show interest in a school to get a free waiter offer? (like check a box) or do they just send them out to all certain scores and up? What score is that normally?

They don't have a selection of certain schools. They do ask what states (max 15) and provinces (max 5) you're interested in. But I got one waiver outside of that list.

[Br3v]

Specifically I recall reading about Duke having some free waiver and quick turn around program if you get a certain score. Anyone have any experience with that?

[Kikero]

Specifically I recall reading about Duke having some free waiver and quick turn around program if you get a certain score. Anyone have any experience with that?

Yeah, they have what is called a "Priority Track" where they will give you a decision within 10 days of receiving your application. However, one of the "decisions" you can get from that is to be basically put back in with the regular decisions. Or you can get put on their "Priority Reserve" list which is supposed to be a step up from the waitlist. I got put on Priority Reserve and then pulled out around the beginning of March, so I don't know if it actually has better odds than a regular waitlist or not.

[rebexness]

[Br3v]

Where the weavers at?

No school ever sent me a weaver. I could use some new sheets or maybe a nice rug for my living room.

+180

Nice curve?

But thanks for the insight Kikero