Stanford c/o 2015 Applicants (2011-2012 cycle) Forum

[curiouscat]

The irony of someone with the username MichelFoucault trying to normalize age and personal experience is, frankly, hilarious.

I love this.

[zapcaz]

The irony of someone with the username MichelFoucault trying to normalize age and personal experience is, frankly, hilarious.

+1

[Mal Reynolds]

The irony of someone with the username MichelFoucault trying to normalize age and personal experience is, frankly, hilarious.

+1

Haha how about next you talk about the social institution of bureaucracy and how it is embodied by law school admissions committees. Discuss also the values, rules and power of the law school admissions bureaucracy from a post-structuralist standpoint.

[soj]

The weather is miserable where I am, and it makes me really want to move to Palo Alto.

[yankees42789]

The weather is miserable where I am, and it makes me really want to move to Palo Alto.

+1

I find myself thinking this pretty much every single day (and that's even with a relatively mild winter).

[sharktankdean]

does anyone want to hypothesize/theorize on how many people Stanford may have admitted...what % of people on 'soft hold' get accepted and when the WL usually comes out?

[johnson.jelly]

does anyone want to hypothesize/theorize on how many people Stanford may have admitted...what % of people on 'soft hold' get accepted and when the WL usually comes out?

A quick look at LSN gives me the following. Also, it's uncanny how LSN is a pretty accurate sample size.

LSN Sample:

# of Applicants: ~525

# Admitted: ~50

# Rejected: ~47

# of Wait List: 0

Stanford Law Applicant Pool:

# of Applicants: ~4,000

# Admitted: ~360 (calculated at a 9% admit rate)

Analysis:

LSN represents ~13% of the SLS applicant pool and since ~50 of the ~360 admits come from LSN, we can liberally deduce that ~310 seats are still available. I say liberally since there are those admitted students who choose not to share their info on LSN. It's also important to note that from the LSN sample, 9.52% of applicants have been admitted -- mirroring SLS's ~9% acceptance rate for the entire applicant pool.

It's rudimentary stats done on a Sunday evening, so by no means is this wholly accurate. Most decisions come out in March/April from what I've heard and this was echoed by a few SLS students in the "Ask SLS students" thread (I believe). I would take a closer look at LSN if you want more detail but I would chill, you'll be just fine wherever you end up going

[knickerbocker]

So where are we on the DLSs? Do you think they're going in order of completion or what?

[bogm2012]

does anyone want to hypothesize/theorize on how many people Stanford may have admitted...what % of people on 'soft hold' get accepted and when the WL usually comes out?

A quick look at LSN gives me the following. Also, it's uncanny how LSN is a pretty accurate sample size.

LSN Sample:

# of Applicants: ~525

# Admitted: ~50

# Rejected: ~47

# of Wait List: 0

Stanford Law Applicant Pool:

# of Applicants: ~4,000

# Admitted: ~360 (calculated at a 9% admit rate)

Analysis:

LSN represents ~13% of the SLS applicant pool and since ~50 of the ~360 admits come from LSN, we can liberally deduce that ~310 seats are still available. I say liberally since there are those admitted students who choose not to share their info on LSN. It's also important to note that from the LSN sample, 9.52% of applicants have been admitted -- mirroring SLS's ~9% acceptance rate for the entire applicant pool.

This seems off to me; I disagree entirely with the bolded section. If we assume that LSN people are just average for Stanford (sort of a large assumption generally, probably less so for HYS), then just multiplying out the 50 acceptances by the applicant variable would already put Stanford over its 379 acceptance total from last year (4248 total last year/525 LSN total this year = ~8.1. 8.1 * 50 = 405). Considering SLS is not done with its acceptances and so the number of acceptances may still be increasing, this suggests that LSN people are above average. The extent to which this is true would seem to indicate how many slots are left (i.e., if these people are true superstars, maybe there really are 310 spots left [doubtful]. If they are more average, then we might be near full capacity already).

I think it stands to reason that the acceptance rate is far more likely to be accurate than the rejection rate (people update with good news. few people rush to LSN to declare they were rejected, especially now, where SLS might be the last school you're hearing from, so a rejection would effectively end your cycle and with it any reason to update this data), and maybe TLS people have an average of 12-15% acceptances, but I think from this point out we may only see a bunch of hold/WL action, if any.

[txl]

does anyone want to hypothesize/theorize on how many people Stanford may have admitted...what % of people on 'soft hold' get accepted and when the WL usually comes out?

My guess would be that we're about where march begins on this graph . And my other guess (based on anecdotal browsing through LSN) is that the last wave of admits (early april) have absolutely uncorrelated submit dates - its just "ok we need to do one last round of admits, who are the best ones left?"

[sailboat]

Your application for admission to Stanford Law School is now complete.

Current Status Date: 10/XX/2011

[hypothalamus]

Your application for admission to Stanford Law School is now complete.

Current Status Date: 10/XX/2011

+1 Except a status date in January.

[Doorkeeper]

Your application for admission to Stanford Law School is now complete.

Current Status Date: 10/XX/2011

+1 Except a status date in January.

We just need to be patient and wait for March to roll in. That's when they appear to make decisions on their soft holds.

[hypothalamus]

Your application for admission to Stanford Law School is now complete.

Current Status Date: 10/XX/2011

+1 Except a status date in January.

We just need to be patient and wait for March to roll in. That's when they will finally mail our rejections.

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[Doorkeeper]

Your application for admission to Stanford Law School is now complete.

Current Status Date: 10/XX/2011

+1 Except a status date in January.

We just need to be patient and wait for March to roll in. That's when they will finally mail our rejections.

Fixed

I don't know about you, but I certainly hope that's not the case!

[hypothalamus]

We just need to be patient and wait for March to roll in. That's when they will finally mail our rejections.

Fixed [/quote]

I don't know about you, but I certainly hope that's not the case![/quote]

Well, hope is a beautiful thing and is said to die last, but... All I can really hope for personally is just any kind of closure.

[sailboat]

We just need to be patient and wait for March to roll in. That's when they will finally mail our rejections.

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I don't know about you, but I certainly hope that's not the case!

Well, hope is a beautiful thing and is said to die last, but... All I can really hope for personally is just any kind of closure.

Yeah, I'm definitely glad I've made it this far, and I know there could be good news in the works. I'm just antsy! Especially because there doesn't seem to have been much of any movement lately.

[Chucky21]

So it seems like soft holds have to commit somewhere else with the hope that they will have the pleasure of walking away from their deposit for sls?

March is the time for decisions on soft holds?

[MichelFoucault]

So it seems like soft holds have to commit somewhere else with the hope that they will have the pleasure of walking away from their deposit for sls?

March is the time for decisions on soft holds?

Just curious, how do you define soft hold, anyone who hasn't heard thus far?

[Doorkeeper]

So it seems like soft holds have to commit somewhere else with the hope that they will have the pleasure of walking away from their deposit for sls?

March is the time for decisions on soft holds?

Just curious, how do you define soft hold, anyone who hasn't heard thus far?

I would define it anyone who submitted over two months ago who hasn't heard anything, but this is just an estimated guess on my part.

[lawschoolquestions57]

A bit clueless, but what does 'soft hold' mean?

[Doorkeeper]

A bit clueless, but what does 'soft hold' mean?

The admissions people at Stanford intially put applications into three piles: 1) auto admit, 2) auto reject, and 3) soft hold. The auto admits get admitted asap, the auto rejects get rejected, and the soft holds get held for further review later in the cycle after the auto admits are accepted and the admissions people want to see who they want to add to the class.

[MichelFoucault]

In at Stanford about 30m ago! Best of luck to everyone else still waiting.

Early jan submit. 1/31 UCR

[adam1]

In at Stanford about 30m ago! Best of luck to everyone else still waiting.

Early jan submit. 1/31 UCR

Congrats! That's an early morning call from the west coast.

[Tom Joad]

Congrats, brother!