NYU c/o 2020 Applicants (2016-2017) Forum

[galeatus]

Only 5 GPA wasn't counted (only 5 international undergrads went to NYU?)

Not great news to me.

Oh damn, is that what that means? International as well, and it seems like all the internationals I've seen have LSATS above the median.

I guess so. If your GPA is evaluated as A/B/C/D by LSAC. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

How International evaluation is used in apps is kind of a black box. I think the general consensus is that if your eval is Above Average, then your grades will be treated as median (though probably not true for HYS), Superior will give you a boost, while Average will hurt your app a bit.

I have seen internationals get into schools with below median LSATs though, albeit only 1 point below.

if an international gpa is 2.9 with Superior evaluation, how would it be treated at t6?
would it be seen as 4.0?

That's an interesting one. I feel that they will lean more on your Superior eval than the 2.9. If they don't have a large applicant pool from your school (which is likely the case for most international schools) they don't really have much of a clue wrt whether there is any grade inflation/deflation, so they have to rely on your LSAC report.

[appind]

Only 5 GPA wasn't counted (only 5 international undergrads went to NYU?)

Not great news to me.

Oh damn, is that what that means? International as well, and it seems like all the internationals I've seen have LSATS above the median.

I guess so. If your GPA is evaluated as A/B/C/D by LSAC. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

How International evaluation is used in apps is kind of a black box. I think the general consensus is that if your eval is Above Average, then your grades will be treated as median (though probably not true for HYS), Superior will give you a boost, while Average will hurt your app a bit.

I have seen internationals get into schools with below median LSATs though, albeit only 1 point below.

if an international gpa is 2.9 with Superior evaluation, how would it be treated at t6?
would it be seen as 4.0?

That's an interesting one. I feel that they will lean more on your Superior eval than the 2.9. If they don't have a large applicant pool from your school (which is likely the case for most international schools) they don't really have much of a clue wrt whether there is any grade inflation/deflation, so they have to rely on your LSAC report.

what if they have to compare say 2.9/superior with 3.7/above-average rating?

[brinicolec]

So do we think regular admissions are done until after the holidays or are non-ED people still hearing back?

big wave 12/22/15. I am still (kind of) hopeful (kind of).

I'm hopeful too

I'll pretend to be hopeful because it'd be nice to get a decision lol

[galeatus]

Only 5 GPA wasn't counted (only 5 international undergrads went to NYU?)

Not great news to me.

Oh damn, is that what that means? International as well, and it seems like all the internationals I've seen have LSATS above the median.

I guess so. If your GPA is evaluated as A/B/C/D by LSAC. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

How International evaluation is used in apps is kind of a black box. I think the general consensus is that if your eval is Above Average, then your grades will be treated as median (though probably not true for HYS), Superior will give you a boost, while Average will hurt your app a bit.

I have seen internationals get into schools with below median LSATs though, albeit only 1 point below.

if an international gpa is 2.9 with Superior evaluation, how would it be treated at t6?
would it be seen as 4.0?

That's an interesting one. I feel that they will lean more on your Superior eval than the 2.9. If they don't have a large applicant pool from your school (which is likely the case for most international schools) they don't really have much of a clue wrt whether there is any grade inflation/deflation, so they have to rely on your LSAC report.

what if they have to compare say 2.9/superior with 3.7/above-average rating?

(!Wild Speculation Alert!) I would still SPECULATE that they treat the Superior more favourably. Like I said, since they don't have reliable data on the grades at a particular school, they can only trust the external evaluators that LSAC uses to evaluate these transcripts, who probably would have done some research on the school and have a better range of applicant data than the adcomms, and the adcomms may just assume that the evaluators know something that they don't. The discrepancy between the GPA and the rating would definitely raise a few eyebrows tho, and they may ask some related questions in interviews.

That said, it is entirely possible that these two are viewed to be roughly equal, or that a school may take only the actual GPA into account and ignore the evaluation completely.

[hellohalo]

Do you have your hope up?

[Thelaw23]

Anybody whose UR2 end of October, I don't even know how to feel about this. Like do I call them and try to remind them of my app

[SybillAnnDorsett]

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[fall17law]

I'm sure they didn't forget! Lots of people hang out at UR2 from October into February and still get in!

Anybody whose UR2 end of October, I don't even know how to feel about this. Like do I call them and try to remind them of my app

What about UR1 since October? (Above both 75ths for what its worth)

Actually same. I'm sure we're fine.

[ad34964n]

UR2!!!!!! Went UR1 on 11/26. NYU is my absolute #1 choice. Sincerely hoping to hear back soon.

[SybillAnnDorsett]

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[Keilz]

guess no wave today. time to get back to work but cautiously watch Twitter for other schools though NYU is my #1

[studyingeveryday]

UR2!!!!!! Went UR1 on 11/26. NYU is my absolute #1 choice. Sincerely hoping to hear back soon.

omg, i'm also UR2 I don't have the stats to get in, but I'm hoping this means maybe a move toward waitlist (I would be so happy honestly) since my file wasn't just tossed?

[ad34964n]

UR2!!!!!! Went UR1 on 11/26. NYU is my absolute #1 choice. Sincerely hoping to hear back soon.

omg, i'm also UR2 I don't have the stats to get in, but I'm hoping this means maybe a move toward waitlist (I would be so happy honestly) since my file wasn't just tossed?

You never know!!!

[texteach]

UR1 11/11; UR2 12/19 - Fingers crossed for some good news soon!

[appind]

Oh damn, is that what that means? International as well, and it seems like all the internationals I've seen have LSATS above the median.

I guess so. If your GPA is evaluated as A/B/C/D by LSAC. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

How International evaluation is used in apps is kind of a black box. I think the general consensus is that if your eval is Above Average, then your grades will be treated as median (though probably not true for HYS), Superior will give you a boost, while Average will hurt your app a bit.

I have seen internationals get into schools with below median LSATs though, albeit only 1 point below.

if an international gpa is 2.9 with Superior evaluation, how would it be treated at t6?
would it be seen as 4.0?

That's an interesting one. I feel that they will lean more on your Superior eval than the 2.9. If they don't have a large applicant pool from your school (which is likely the case for most international schools) they don't really have much of a clue wrt whether there is any grade inflation/deflation, so they have to rely on your LSAC report.

what if they have to compare say 2.9/superior with 3.7/above-average rating?

(!Wild Speculation Alert!) I would still SPECULATE that they treat the Superior more favourably. Like I said, since they don't have reliable data on the grades at a particular school, they can only trust the external evaluators that LSAC uses to evaluate these transcripts, who probably would have done some research on the school and have a better range of applicant data than the adcomms, and the adcomms may just assume that the evaluators know something that they don't. The discrepancy between the GPA and the rating would definitely raise a few eyebrows tho, and they may ask some related questions in interviews.

That said, it is entirely possible that these two are viewed to be roughly equal, or that a school may take only the actual GPA into account and ignore the evaluation completely.

i am not sure but it may be hard for adcom to simply go by evaluation rating when comparing a transcript mostly filled with Bs/superior rating with another transcript that's mostly As/above-average rating. considering how adcomms don't distinguish between GPAs from various majors or schools, it seems they shouldn't compare numerical values of GPA for internationals and should go strictly based on evaluation rating. but not sure how much data there is to support that.

there seems to be a huge lack of info about how t6 treat lsac evaluation/grades for international ug.

[ad34964n]

Looks like there was a mass batch of decisions on Tuesday of this week before Christmas (the 22nd) last year.

Perhaps we see something tomorrow!

[brinicolec]

Looks like there was a mass batch of decisions on Tuesday of this week before Christmas (the 22nd) last year.

Perhaps we see something tomorrow!

*fingers crossed, but only if it's an acceptance*

[appind]

Oh damn, is that what that means? International as well, and it seems like all the internationals I've seen have LSATS above the median.

I guess so. If your GPA is evaluated as A/B/C/D by LSAC. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

How International evaluation is used in apps is kind of a black box. I think the general consensus is that if your eval is Above Average, then your grades will be treated as median (though probably not true for HYS), Superior will give you a boost, while Average will hurt your app a bit.

I have seen internationals get into schools with below median LSATs though, albeit only 1 point below.

if an international gpa is 2.9 with Superior evaluation, how would it be treated at t6?
would it be seen as 4.0?

That's an interesting one. I feel that they will lean more on your Superior eval than the 2.9. If they don't have a large applicant pool from your school (which is likely the case for most international schools) they don't really have much of a clue wrt whether there is any grade inflation/deflation, so they have to rely on your LSAC report.

what if they have to compare say 2.9/superior with 3.7/above-average rating?

(!Wild Speculation Alert!) I would still SPECULATE that they treat the Superior more favourably. Like I said, since they don't have reliable data on the grades at a particular school, they can only trust the external evaluators that LSAC uses to evaluate these transcripts, who probably would have done some research on the school and have a better range of applicant data than the adcomms, and the adcomms may just assume that the evaluators know something that they don't. The discrepancy between the GPA and the rating would definitely raise a few eyebrows tho, and they may ask some related questions in interviews.

That said, it is entirely possible that these two are viewed to be roughly equal, or that a school may take only the actual GPA into account and ignore the evaluation completely.

there is a spreadsheet for international applicants from a previous cycle at this link

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... t#p8214726

[zeglo]

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[tlee13]

Just went DLS! Happened within the past 10 minutes!

[potterotter]

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[mcvizz]

So I missed a call from a 646 number at 8:30am. It only rang about 3 times so I didn't get to answer it and there was no message. Status checker still says under review. Is this just a coincidence? (I live in the midwest and never get calls from New York).

[tlee13]

So I missed a call from a 646 number at 8:30am. It only rang about 3 times so I didn't get to answer it and there was no message. Status checker still says under review. Is this just a coincidence? (I live in the midwest and never get calls from New York).

I'm going to say a coincidence...they typically don't call that early and I don't think I've heard of anyone getting a call before DLS

[mcvizz]

So I missed a call from a 646 number at 8:30am. It only rang about 3 times so I didn't get to answer it and there was no message. Status checker still says under review. Is this just a coincidence? (I live in the midwest and never get calls from New York).

I'm going to say a coincidence...they typically don't call that early and I don't think I've heard of anyone getting a call before DLS

Whoever made that call is now my least favorite person.