Michigan Law School C/O 2019 Applicants (2015-16) Forum

[lymenheimer]

For those of us that didn't get the email, what does the link say that is extra enlightening?

What BLE said. Also, that it's just something that is suppose to make the admissions process more open to the applicants.

Translation: please don't call us.

This mostly.

[cub1014]

Got the email as well. Regardless of the final decision, I'm appreciative of Michigan's effort to be transparent.

[kjm1992]

Everyone should click the read this link and read the blog post, even if you understand the email. It's a funny blog post.

Also confirms that this email means nothing except we applied early and they feel bad about not making a decision yet, but don't want to be bugged about it.

Blog post: http://www.law.umich.edu/connection/a2z ... aspx?ID=83

[BirdLawExpert]

Got the email as well. Regardless of the final decision, I'm appreciative of Michigan's effort to be transparent.

+1

[gamerish]

Got the email as well. Regardless of the final decision, I'm appreciative of Michigan's effort to be transparent.

Yeah as scary as it initially was, I'm glad they came out and said something.

[SupCutie]

I can't interpret the email as anything besides "something about your application makes us hesitant".

[gamerish]

Made my way over to the YP blog post and found this gem:

Now, there’s a whole jargon about admissions employed by law school applicants on discussion boards that is not actually widely used by the admissions officers themselves. Examples include... “TTT in decline.” (Well, honestly, I did start using that latter one all the time once I figured out what TTT meant. I love a new insult.)

http://www.law.umich.edu/connection/a2z ... aspx?ID=11

[station2]

I can't interpret the email as anything besides "something about your application makes us hesitant".

If you read that blog post and still can't interpret it any other way, you might be paranoid.

[SupCutie]

I can't interpret the email as anything besides "something about your application makes us hesitant".

If you read that blog post and still can't interpret it any other way, you might be paranoid.

Likely am. There are plenty of people who have my numbers who applied later and already got in. I have yet to hear back from a single t14 school despite being at or above both medians for at least half of them. Same deal with those schools. I can think of no other explanation besides I wrote some very shitty essays that are torpedoing my application.

[Duggiiee]

Has anyone heard back from Michigan about scholarships almost immediately after a decision?

I got mine a few days afterward, without even submitting any information. And my scholarship notification specifically said that I wouldn't be able to apply for any more need-based aid. Is this typical? They just suggested loans.

[WhiteHouse]

my mind is stuck on the part of the blog post that said "20 people who got that email were admitted by the end of that day" on a particular year....

[gamerish]

I can't interpret the email as anything besides "something about your application makes us hesitant".

If you read that blog post and still can't interpret it any other way, you might be paranoid.

I think a certain level of paranoia is typical of TLS but at the end of the day this (from the blog post) sums up the situation:

"The majority of the people getting this email fall into one of two categories: someone about whom the file readers had different impressions, or someone about whom I just couldn’t reach a decision."

Something is holding them back. It's not necessarily going to wind up badly, she did say some people who got the email will still get accepted after all. But I think it's reasonable to be made uneasy by the fact that, for one reason or another, a decision in your particular case is proving difficult to render. I wouldn't go panic and start calling admissions but I think being a little anxious about it is an understandable reaction to have.

[CJRpnw]

I can't interpret the email as anything besides "something about your application makes us hesitant".

If you read that blog post and still can't interpret it any other way, you might be paranoid.

I think a certain level of paranoia is typical of TLS but at the end of the day this (from the blog post) sums up the situation:

"The majority of the people getting this email fall into one of two categories: someone about whom the file readers had different impressions, or someone about whom I just couldn’t reach a decision."

Something is holding them back. It's not necessarily going to wind up badly, she did say some people who got the email will still get accepted after all. But I think it's reasonable to be made uneasy by the fact that, for one reason or another, a decision in your particular case is proving difficult to render. I wouldn't go panic and start calling admissions but I think being a little anxious about it is an understandable reaction to have.

In that blog, I got the impression that reading applications can occasionally be like online dating -- after awhile, you either start getting too picky or everyone starts seeming interchangeable, and that's when you know it's time to take a break. So it might just be a timing thing, and once they refresh their brains, they'll be like, "Oh, X really is great!"

[station2]

I can't interpret the email as anything besides "something about your application makes us hesitant".

If you read that blog post and still can't interpret it any other way, you might be paranoid.

I think a certain level of paranoia is typical of TLS but at the end of the day this (from the blog post) sums up the situation:

"The majority of the people getting this email fall into one of two categories: someone about whom the file readers had different impressions, or someone about whom I just couldn’t reach a decision."

Something is holding them back. It's not necessarily going to wind up badly, she did say some people who got the email will still get accepted after all. But I think it's reasonable to be made uneasy by the fact that, for one reason or another, a decision in your particular case is proving difficult to render. I wouldn't go panic and start calling admissions but I think being a little anxious about it is an understandable reaction to have.

Fair enough. I obviously would've much preferred an admission letter to that email, but I'm trying to stay fairly positive about it, especially since my tendency is also toward anxiety.

[threatlevelmidnight]

Lolz there is some major comment drama on that blog post from 2012...yikes.

[Po$eidon]

So what does no email mean? Above both 75ths and applied in October.

[candidlatke]

So what's TCR in the event of the letter?

Send in additional LoR/etc.?

[bdb90]

my mind is stuck on the part of the blog post that said "20 people who got that email were admitted by the end of that day" on a particular year....

Yeah, I sure wish Michigan would accept 20 of us right now...They can start with me. Haha

[gamerish]

So what's TCR in the event of the letter?

Send in additional LoR/etc.?

Do nothing unless you already had things you needed to submit before you got the letter. The whole thing is basically a way to say "we know we haven't given you a decision, leave us alone."

[kjm1992]

So what does no email mean? Above both 75ths and applied in October.

That you didn't apply early enough for them to feel bad about not giving you a decision yet lol or your file hasn't been through one file read, yet.

[gamerish]

So what does no email mean? Above both 75ths and applied in October.

That you didn't apply early enough for them to feel bad about not giving you a decision yet lol or your file hasn't been through one file read, yet.

I applied after Oct and got the email so I don't think it's the former.

[mattf27]

Just admitted via email! 6:30 AM.

[Po$eidon]

So what does no email mean? Above both 75ths and applied in October.

That you didn't apply early enough for them to feel bad about not giving you a decision yet lol or your file hasn't been through one file read, yet.

I applied after Oct and got the email so I don't think it's the former.

I'm going with my traditional approach and reading my situation as meaning there is a looming disaster coming. Question though: the letters explicitly said your apps had been read but they needed to stew on it more?

[lymenheimer]

I'm going with my traditional approach and reading my situation as meaning there is a looming disaster coming. Question though: the letters explicitly said your apps had been read but they needed to stew on it more?

It said that the app has been through one read and for whatever reason has not had a decision made on it, yet. Could be app-related or it could be that the next reader is off on maternity leave.

[GreekOmega12]

Just admitted via email! 6:30 AM.

When did you go complete?