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Why do you want Penn?

Faculty
17
3%
Students
10
2%
Class size
19
4%
Like the location/ Have ties to Philly
74
15%
Cross-Disciplinary Education
57
12%
Clinics
19
4%
Cuz it's T-14/want to leverage $$
126
26%
Ivy League Preftige
167
34%
 
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Post by hillz » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:42 pm

limeo wrote:
monkeyKT wrote:Twitter basically announced their decision friday fyi
Or their excitement for the weekend? I can't tell. Would they have three decision days in one week?
I interpreted it as excitement for the weekend.

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Post by monkeyKT » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:44 pm

limeo wrote:
monkeyKT wrote:Twitter basically announced their decision friday fyi
Or their excitement for the weekend? I can't tell. Would they have three decision days in one week?
oh... that could be it too!! Was hoping more along the lines of they're so happy that they're making people happy LOL XD

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Post by nickhalden » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:54 pm

monkeyKT wrote:Twitter basically announced their decision friday fyi
Ditto to those above, I read it as "Thank God we're done for the week" (two decision days). Plus, they're #sooverdecisionfriday

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Post by hillz » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:58 pm

nickhalden wrote:
monkeyKT wrote:Twitter basically announced their decision friday fyi
Ditto to those above, I read it as "Thank God we're done for the week" (two decision days). Plus, they're #sooverdecisionfriday
The poor staff member who called me yesterday said "Have a great night!" It was still morning. I think they're tired.

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Post by nickhalden » Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:09 pm

hillz wrote:
nickhalden wrote:
monkeyKT wrote:Twitter basically announced their decision friday fyi
Ditto to those above, I read it as "Thank God we're done for the week" (two decision days). Plus, they're #sooverdecisionfriday
The poor staff member who called me yesterday said "Have a great night!" It was still morning. I think they're tired.
When I got my call yesterday, I relayed how much I loved their tweeting. She laughed and said how much fun they have with the process, which is wonderful to hear as an applicant (particularly a TLS applicant). I love how professional and fun Penn Law is, and it seems nowhere is this typified better than in the AdComm.

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Post by usn26 » Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:39 pm

limeo wrote:
monkeyKT wrote:Twitter basically announced their decision friday fyi
Or their excitement for the weekend? I can't tell. Would they have three decision days in one week?
That's what I thought. I thought they were celebrating getting decisions out yesterday so they can leave at 5 today. Although that would be in poor taste (hooray for dashing people's dreams!), and they're probably smarter than that. Who knows.

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Post by Fred Norris » Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:33 pm

How does Prompt 3 for the Levy Essay differ all that much from a Why Penn?

It feels silly to spend 1-2 pages boasting about accomplishments.

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Post by daedalus2309 » Sun Feb 15, 2015 11:06 pm

The only people who can answer you is the competition. Not sure why they would, to be honest. Not a lot of Levy's out there.

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Post by dlrkgml » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:35 pm

Penn's need based application is due March 1st - do applicants who don't yet know if they have been admitted/WL/rejected also have to submit? Berkeley sent me an email asking that I submit their individual need based application even though they haven't told me what my application status is.

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Post by idissent » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:03 pm

dlrkgml wrote:Penn's need based application is due March 1st - do applicants who don't yet know if they have been admitted/WL/rejected also have to submit? Berkeley sent me an email asking that I submit their individual need based application even though they haven't told me what my application status is.
I'm not positive, and maybe people have better insight, but when I submitted NeedAccess and FAFSA for other schools, I included every school I was applying to so I'd only have to submit once, so I assume that they can receive the files even before you've been admitted.

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Post by hillz » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:04 pm

idissent wrote:
dlrkgml wrote:Penn's need based application is due March 1st - do applicants who don't yet know if they have been admitted/WL/rejected also have to submit? Berkeley sent me an email asking that I submit their individual need based application even though they haven't told me what my application status is.
I'm not positive, and maybe people have better insight, but when I submitted NeedAccess and FAFSA for other schools, I included every school I was applying to so I'd only have to submit once, so I assume that they can receive the files even before you've been admitted.
This is what I did as well.

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Post by ChemEng1642 » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:18 pm

hillz wrote:
idissent wrote:
dlrkgml wrote:Penn's need based application is due March 1st - do applicants who don't yet know if they have been admitted/WL/rejected also have to submit? Berkeley sent me an email asking that I submit their individual need based application even though they haven't told me what my application status is.
I'm not positive, and maybe people have better insight, but when I submitted NeedAccess and FAFSA for other schools, I included every school I was applying to so I'd only have to submit once, so I assume that they can receive the files even before you've been admitted.
This is what I did as well.

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Post by tealeaves12 » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:32 pm

ChemEng1642 wrote:
hillz wrote:
idissent wrote:
dlrkgml wrote:Penn's need based application is due March 1st - do applicants who don't yet know if they have been admitted/WL/rejected also have to submit? Berkeley sent me an email asking that I submit their individual need based application even though they haven't told me what my application status is.
I'm not positive, and maybe people have better insight, but when I submitted NeedAccess and FAFSA for other schools, I included every school I was applying to so I'd only have to submit once, so I assume that they can receive the files even before you've been admitted.
This is what I did as well.

Is there a limit to how many schools you can indicate ? I seem to remember something like ten but I applied to more schools than that

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Post by hillz » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:35 pm

kendallr12 wrote:
Is there a limit to how many schools you can indicate ? I seem to remember something like ten but I applied to more schools than that
You can submit 10 schools for the FAFSA. You can enter in 16 schools at a time on NeedAccess, but then after you pay for it, go back and delete schools and resubmit to apply to new schools.

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Post by ChemEng1642 » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:45 pm

hillz wrote:
kendallr12 wrote:
Is there a limit to how many schools you can indicate ? I seem to remember something like ten but I applied to more schools than that
You can submit 10 schools for the FAFSA. You can enter in 16 schools at a time on NeedAccess, but then after you pay for it, go back and delete schools and resubmit to apply to new schools.
Seconded - also for FAFSA you should separate by which schools require parent info and which ones don't. Berkeley, UVA, GW all require parent info on FAFSA even though you are a graduate student and FAFSA will tell you that you technically do not have to.

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Post by lawapp1 » Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:32 pm

Sorry to change topic, but what do people think the chances are of an admissions wave this week? It looks like a lot of us went UR2 last week so that seems like a promising sign.

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Post by nickhalden » Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:37 pm

lawapp1 wrote:Sorry to change topic, but what do people think the chances are of an admissions wave this week? It looks like a lot of us went UR2 last week so that seems like a promising sign.
Without being too bold, I would say it is almost guaranteed. Penn has had weekly decision days since the first one (excepting the two holiday weeks and the week of 1/19-1/23) and there are still ample candidates left to decide on (47 pending UR2s on TLS).

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Post by nickhalden » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:34 pm

Invited for the James Wilson scholarship! Deadline for submission is Wednesday, February 26th. The prompts are the same as the past invitation wave.

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Levy ($160k) - yot11, strugglebus, everything_bagel, psychmusic, Mack.Hambleton, LetsGoMets, Fred Norris, hillz
Toll ($123k) - All admittees are eligible to apply
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James-Wilson ($75-105k) - morimoto1991, irontryad, lc39, JustMe83, lashley, tonysoprano, NotASpecialSnowflake, nickhalden
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Post by hillz » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:37 pm

Levy invite! Very excited.

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Post by nickhalden » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:38 pm

hillz wrote:Levy invite! Very excited.
Congrats hillz!!!

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Post by ErgoSum » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:39 pm

yayfriendship wrote:Any more lonely UR1s still? :|
Still UR1 1/26
hillz wrote:Levy invite! Very excited.
Woo! Congrats!

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Post by idissent » Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:29 pm

yayfriendship wrote:Any more lonely UR1s still? :|
UR 1/26 holla

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Post by tealeaves12 » Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:34 pm

idissent wrote:
yayfriendship wrote:Any more lonely UR1s still? :|
UR 1/26 holla
Same here exactly

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Post by Mack.Hambleton » Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:57 pm

hillz wrote:Levy invite! Very excited.
Congrats!

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