Vanderbilt c/o 2018 applicants Forum

adil91 · Post by **adil91** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 5:35 pm

How many people come off the waitlist, usually? How late into the cycle are people taken off the waitlist? What can one do increase their chances of getting accepted off the waitlist?

morningstar · Post by **morningstar** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 6:30 pm

Got my scholarship letter today. Chancellor's @ 105k, plus a 5k one time award.

Winston1984 · Post by **Winston1984** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 6:33 pm

morningstar wrote:Got my scholarship letter today. Chancellor's @ 105k, plus a 5k one time award.

If those are your stats. Some of the schools you applied to are very strange..

LawBron James · Post by **LawBron James** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 6:49 pm

Still no scholarship letter. I hate the mail in my area, how does it take a week to get me something sent from 6 hours away?

Dipper · Post by **Dipper** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:03 pm

Winston1984 wrote:
morningstar wrote:Got my scholarship letter today. Chancellor's @ 105k, plus a 5k one time award.
If those are your stats. Some of the schools you applied to are very strange..

+1 +eyebrow raise

monkeyKT · Post by **monkeyKT** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:35 pm

morningstar · Post by **morningstar** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:37 pm

Dipper wrote:
Winston1984 wrote:
morningstar wrote:Got my scholarship letter today. Chancellor's @ 105k, plus a 5k one time award.
If those are your stats. Some of the schools you applied to are very strange..
+1 +eyebrow raise

Ugh, yes, they are. And yes, I know. I wasn't confident at all that I was going to get a good LSAT score, and I didn't know about the LSDAS GPA calculation at the time, I thought they were going to take only my current UG GPA, and not figure in the 100 semester hours at 4.0, so I expected my GPA to be too low to aim for the top. My adviser fortunately set me straight and I realized that the top schools were much closer than I expected.

But having said that, I also still had a pretty extensive backup plan that included applying to my ideal T14's plus those that I thought could get me good scholarship money to negotiate with...and also some T50's with the same setup (the ones I wanted plus the ones I thought I could negotiate with).

I'm not saying it was a WISE plan, but what are you gonna do.

Dipper · Post by **Dipper** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:42 pm

monkeyKT wrote:How fast would you all say for the decision to be mailed to the west coast?

Decision = accept/deny? or offer?

Decision accept via Fed Ex within two days (got mine on a Saturday, too). Deny/WL as well as scholarship offers, appear to be via USPS, and my guess would be a week.

refugeelawyer26 · Post by **refugeelawyer26** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:45 pm

so did everyone whose decision was mailed 02/27 get wait listed? or some rejects?

santoki · Post by **santoki** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:46 pm

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pbajsandwich · Post by **pbajsandwich** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:16 pm

Just received scholarship offer. PM for numbers.

jk148706 · Post by **jk148706** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:17 pm

congrats on scholarships, everyone

if you have questions, go here: http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 4&t=233067

rebecker · Post by **rebecker** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:09 pm

santoki wrote:no fedex delivery manager yet, decision mailed 4 hours ago. hoping there are delays due to snow!

Crossing my fingers with you that we get FedEx notifications!

svx5013 · Post by **svx5013** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 3:22 am

refugeelawyer26 wrote:so did everyone whose decision was mailed 02/27 get wait listed? or some rejects?

still waiting...

FLC2018 · Post by **FLC2018** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 2:07 pm

Has anyone who had their status changed to "decision mailed" yesterday (3/6) gotten a notification from FedEx?

Yeezus · Post by **Yeezus** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 2:26 pm

Received scholarship offer last night. Pretty solid. Too bad we can't negotiate.

HokieHi307 · Post by **HokieHi307** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 2:29 pm

Got the WL today. Mailed 2/27. Sigh.

rebecker · Post by **rebecker** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 2:31 pm

FLC2018 wrote:Has anyone who had their status changed to "decision mailed" yesterday (3/6) gotten a notification from FedEx?

Not yet. Any idea if they normally send batches mixed or batches for each category (accept, WL, deny)?

FLC2018 · Post by **FLC2018** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 2:34 pm

rebecker wrote:
FLC2018 wrote:Has anyone who had their status changed to "decision mailed" yesterday (3/6) gotten a notification from FedEx?

Not yet. Any idea if they normally send batches mixed or batches for each category (accept, WL, deny)?

I have no idea. I'd think they'd send mixed batches though?

LawBron James · Post by **LawBron James** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 4:09 pm

95k, looks like I'll be withdrawing in the next few days. Good luck to those of you still waiting!

ptz · Post by **ptz** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 6:55 pm

95 here too. Great, but will probably have to be withdrawing now.

santoki · Post by **santoki** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 7:00 pm

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Iwanttolawschool · Post by **Iwanttolawschool** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 8:21 pm

For those of you not satisfied with your scholarship offers... I do wish you withdrawal so I/others have a shot.

But in seriousness, its your life, do you boo boo

rion91 · Post by **rion91** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:58 pm

3/2 mailing denied

gentlemanscholar · Post by **gentlemanscholar** » Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:56 pm