Georgetown Law School c/o 2020 Applicants (2016-2017) Forum

[Lapp03]

First T-14 acceptance! For the info junkie's - Submitted 12/15 and was waiting on a Dec score. Way below LSAT 25th and no reportable GPA, no interview or why Gtown essay.

Pretty excited

[RParadela]

Where..... Are these acceptances coming from?!

[sonyco]

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[mysterycat2020]

I also got a quick turnaround - submitted 1/9, no interview, no "Why." <25th on both. I hadn't even status checked. Just got a letter in the mail. Pretty excited!

Hey, that's awesome congrats! Did your status checker change do DLS?

[RParadela]

Where..... Are these acceptances coming from?!

They've been expediting URMs.

Ahh shit, I was getting excited because I thought maybe my decision would be coming soon.

Really wished Cuban counted as URM

[janereacher]

I also got a quick turnaround - submitted 1/9, no interview, no "Why." <25th on both. I hadn't even status checked. Just got a letter in the mail. Pretty excited!

Hey, that's awesome congrats! Did your status checker change do DLS?

Thanks! No - it still just says "Application Completed." No other dates filled in and the "Mailings" section is totally blank.

[chargers21]

I also got a quick turnaround - submitted 1/9, no interview, no "Why." <25th on both. I hadn't even status checked. Just got a letter in the mail. Pretty excited!

Hey, that's awesome congrats! Did your status checker change do DLS?

gtown doesn't update their status checker

[treetops_rising]

Where..... Are these acceptances coming from?!

They've been expediting URMs.

These acceptance letters are dated from last week+. They must all be from the same decision making period and the timeline is obvi distorted because of snail mail + lack of status checker updates.

Also plenty of non-URMs in this "wave"

[sonyco]

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[jlet0314]

is the scholly consensus that they'll send out feeler emails in feb?

[Stephylynette]

A conspiracy theory I've been thinking about for a couple of weeks:

What if the interviews they make people go through aren't really for an acceptance/denial/WL. What if they're secretly scholarship interviews?

What if the people with quick turn around, no Why Gtown essay, no interview, and below 25th stats are getting accepted so fast bc they know they're not gonna give those people money and they interview the ones who are in the running for scholarships??

I could be way off but these are the things I think about and I felt the need to vent.

*full disclosure* I was accepted with <25th LSAT, no interview or why essay and within two weeks. I'm also an AA URM. I'm also paranoid. So... yeah. Do what you will with that.

[chargers21]

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[Stephylynette]

A conspiracy theory I've been thinking about for a couple of weeks:

What if the interviews they make people go through aren't really for an acceptance/denial/WL. What if they're secretly scholarship interviews?

What if the people with quick turn around, no Why Gtown essay, no interview, and below 25th stats are getting accepted so fast bc they know they're not gonna give those people money and they interview the ones who are in the running for scholarships??

I could be way off but these are the things I think about and I felt the need to vent.

*full disclosure* I was accepted with <25th LSAT, no interview or why essay and within two weeks. I'm also an AA URM. I'm also paranoid. So... yeah. Do what you will with that.

median LSAT and above 75th gpa with no interview and no why gtown essay. I got accepted and feel pretty confident I'll get some scholarship money anyways. I don't think I got an interview because of my location

Fair enough. I *obvioulsy* hope we all get scholarship money. But my paranoia is getting to me and has got me thinking that fast turn around wasn't such a good thing.

[RParadela]

A conspiracy theory I've been thinking about for a couple of weeks:

What if the interviews they make people go through aren't really for an acceptance/denial/WL. What if they're secretly scholarship interviews?

What if the people with quick turn around, no Why Gtown essay, no interview, and below 25th stats are getting accepted so fast bc they know they're not gonna give those people money and they interview the ones who are in the running for scholarships??

I could be way off but these are the things I think about and I felt the need to vent.

*full disclosure* I was accepted with <25th LSAT, no interview or why essay and within two weeks. I'm also an AA URM. I'm also paranoid. So... yeah. Do what you will with that.

I think it might be more of a URM thing but not sure

[StopLawying]

Anyone here that did the group interview in NYC this past Thursday/Friday?

[proteinshake]

just to make sure I'm doing this correctly, are these the steps to follow to apply for financial aid? http://www.law.georgetown.edu/admission ... New-JD.cfm

[hernandp]

In! Received small envelope in mail and was very nervous to open it but it was good news! Letter was dated 1/17/17. No email has been sent! The letter tells me to check out the admitted student website and I tried logging in but I don't have the correct username. Waiting for them to email with login information.

Some stats:
GPA 3.8
LSAT 163
URM
Did not write optional essays
Submitted 12/10
Group Interview invitation 12/22
Group Interview on 1/10
Received acceptance letter on 1/21

[govlife]

just to make sure I'm doing this correctly, are these the steps to follow to apply for financial aid? http://www.law.georgetown.edu/admission ... New-JD.cfm

It says at the top that those steps don't apply for 2017-2018, and that new info will be out later in the year. I tried to start the Profile, but it wasn't asking for parent info even though their website says they need it included. For now I just did the FAFSA and have been waiting for further information.

[proteinshake]

just to make sure I'm doing this correctly, are these the steps to follow to apply for financial aid? http://www.law.georgetown.edu/admission ... New-JD.cfm

It says at the top that those steps don't apply for 2017-2018, and that new info will be out later in the year. I tried to start the Profile, but it wasn't asking for parent info even though their website says they need it included. For now I just did the FAFSA and have been waiting for further information.

sounds good, thanks!

[BobBoblaw]

Checking in. App went complete early January, interview invite last Thursday.

[Foniks]

In! Received small envelope in mail and was very nervous to open it but it was good news! Letter was dated 1/17/17. No email has been sent! The letter tells me to check out the admitted student website and I tried logging in but I don't have the correct username. Waiting for them to email with login information.

Some stats:
GPA 3.8
LSAT 163
URM
Did not write optional essays
Submitted 12/10
Group Interview invitation 12/22
Group Interview on 1/10
Received acceptance letter on 1/21

You request the info from the first time login instructions. For me, it took about a day for it to actually work (overnight), even with the info I received in the email..

[tuesdayninja]

Anyone in Chicago get an interview request?

[feefeeriri]

Anyone here that did the group interview in NYC this past Thursday/Friday?

Yep just did it on Friday

[thatguy2017]

Has anyone who applied ED and was deferred to regular decision heard back yet?

[turkeyncheese]

Has anyone who applied ED and was deferred to regular decision heard back yet?

Wondering this too- I haven't heard back yet. It looks like some people from last year's thread heard back right around the Feb 28th date they gave us.