Berkeley 2011 applicants Forum

[swimmergirl1303]

I sent a LOCI to Berkeley but I had a typo. (I wrote the word "of" where it didn't belong) Do you think I should resend it? Or just let it go... Maybe they won't notice? Anyone have any suggestions?

[yurishima]

UR 10/26 and still no word.

AUUUUUGH

[yurishima]

Oh yeah. No new tweets in a while. Are they still on winter break?

[Aggiegrad2011]

Oh yeah. No new tweets in a while. Are they still on winter break?

They just dinged a ton of people

[yurishima]

Oh yeah. No new tweets in a while. Are they still on winter break?

They just dinged a ton of people

...As in the past tense and they have completed doing it? And so if I don't see any email from them I'm in the clear?!?! Or are they still in the process!?!? AAAUUUGH

[r6_philly]

I sent a LOCI to Berkeley but I had a typo. (I wrote the word "of" where it didn't belong) Do you think I should resend it? Or just let it go... Maybe they won't notice? Anyone have any suggestions?

You can always send another one but I don't think it matters a whole lot.

[jman77]

Judging by LSN data, they're sending out auto-rejects today: http://berkeley.lawschoolnumbers.com/ap ... order=desc

I don't think I am auto-reject, but maybe I am based on Berkeley standards.

+1. I don't see myself as an auto-reject, either, from a numerical standpoint.

[reversejinx]

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[swimmergirl1303]

I sent a LOCI to Berkeley but I had a typo. (I wrote the word "of" where it didn't belong) Do you think I should resend it? Or just let it go... Maybe they won't notice? Anyone have any suggestions?

You can always send another one but I don't think it matters a whole lot.

thanks for the help! PS Congrats on all of your acceptances.

[jman77]

Judging by LSN data, they're sending out auto-rejects today: http://berkeley.lawschoolnumbers.com/ap ... order=desc

I don't think I am auto-reject, but maybe I am based on Berkeley standards.

+1. I don't see myself as an auto-reject, either, from a numerical standpoint.

Well shit, update your LSN, and maybe some of us won't jump to premature conclusions.

Edit: Nope, not updated for the Berkeley ding. I kept getting the sessions problem error. I've been pretty great at keeping updated so far.

[reversejinx]

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[logistikon]

Edit: Nope, not updated for the Berkeley ding. I kept getting the sessions problem error. I've been pretty great at keeping updated so far.

Yea, try switching browsers. I'm sure there are a bunch of people like you who just haven't updated yet. But going off of the current LSN data, over the course of the last 24 hours, there have been 20+ rejections and 1 acceptance. All of the rejections have been for those with sub-170 and/or sub-3.6 numbers. Seems like auto-rejects to me.

false?

[hipstermafia]

Yea, try switching browsers. I'm sure there are a bunch of people like you who just haven't updated yet. But going off of the current LSN data, over the course of the last 24 hours, there have been 20+ rejections and 1 acceptance. All of the rejections have been for those with sub-170 and/or sub-3.6 numbers. Seems like auto-rejects to me.

false?

reversejinx is generally correct on the lsn data, when i checked last night there was a 171 and a 179 rejected who both applied in november (and both had foreign gpas?), while the remainder of the ~20 rejections were what i consider to be berkeley 'auto-rejects'

edit: i see your point logistkon, i don't mean that 169/3.59 is an auto-ding at berk, just that most of the rejected lsn profiles seem to be

[biggie]

UR 10/26 and still no word.

AUUUUUGH

+1

[Concept]

3.7 gpa, 163 LSAT. Still no ding! I'm hanging on by a thread, I'm sure..

[emhellmer]

3.7 gpa, 163 LSAT. Still no ding! I'm hanging on by a thread, I'm sure..

+1

Hello numbers twin!!

[queenlizzie13]

Same... I am very surprised I have not been dinged yet.

[ahduth]

I feel that other schools have deemed my career focus not a great fit for the school because they don't really offer what I am looking for. I don't think they are too willing to admit me since I either wouldn't choose them over say Berkeley or wouldn't benefit a whole lot from being there.

Ah, you were pretty forceful about a particular field then? I was a bit concerned lol, there are certain commonalities between our profiles. I'm took a rather rough swipe with, "I have lots of finance and accounting experience and find corporate politics amusing and vaguely enjoyable." It's pretty complementary to any sort of corporate transactional or litigatory practice area, and I generally haven't expressed to specific an interest in a particular area, although I have some ideas.

[artichoke]

Why is the Berkeley law website like the slowest thing in the world?

[Gotti]

Same... I am very surprised I have not been dinged yet.

+1, especially since my bf was dinged with the same LSAT score and is a URM with a decent GPA. AND he submitted after me. He suggested that there was a GPA floor for yesterday's batch of decisions [and by that I mean rejections]....sounds pretty believable?

[r6_philly]

Why is the Berkeley law website like the slowest thing in the world?

It is very fast. I am on the east coast. This probably has to do with your ISP and the routing to their server. From here the site is about as fast as yahoo.com, just pinged it.

[r6_philly]

Same... I am very surprised I have not been dinged yet.

+1, especially since my bf was dinged with the same LSAT score and is a URM with a decent GPA. AND he submitted after me. He suggested that there was a GPA floor for yesterday's batch of decisions [and by that I mean rejections]....sounds pretty believable?

the old wisdom says they like high GPA, I wouldn't be surprised if they have a hard floor.

[Gotti]

Same... I am very surprised I have not been dinged yet.

+1, especially since my bf was dinged with the same LSAT score and is a URM with a decent GPA. AND he submitted after me. He suggested that there was a GPA floor for yesterday's batch of decisions [and by that I mean rejections]....sounds pretty believable?

the old wisdom says they like high GPA, I wouldn't be surprised if they have a hard floor.

yeah...I guess that makes sense since cali schools don't really practice AA

[Flips88]

Same... I am very surprised I have not been dinged yet.

+1, especially since my bf was dinged with the same LSAT score and is a URM with a decent GPA. AND he submitted after me. He suggested that there was a GPA floor for yesterday's batch of decisions [and by that I mean rejections]....sounds pretty believable?

the old wisdom says they like high GPA, I wouldn't be surprised if they have a hard floor.

yeah...I guess that makes sense since cali schools don't really practice AA

That's because it's illegal in CA

From TLS interview with Dean Tom:

Proposition 209: Cannot Consider Ethnicity or Gender

TLS: I know that with Proposition 209, Boalt is precluded from implementing affirmative action, but does ethnic background still play any role in admissions?

Dean Tom: “No. As a result of 209, we did modify our review process to be much more holistic, rather than numbers centered, which I liked. I think it results in an entering class every year that is diverse across the board. We still have strong ethnic representation in the class, almost where it was before 209. And it is more challenging for an admissions office to accomplish that now because the minority students who are admitted here without affirmative action are among the top minority students throughout the country. They are being courted by all the great schools and so it is particularly satisfying when they choose us.”

[Gotti]

That's because it's illegal in CA

From TLS interview with Dean Tom:

Proposition 209: Cannot Consider Ethnicity or Gender

TLS: I know that with Proposition 209, Boalt is precluded from implementing affirmative action, but does ethnic background still play any role in admissions?

Dean Tom: “No. As a result of 209, we did modify our review process to be much more holistic, rather than numbers centered, which I liked. I think it results in an entering class every year that is diverse across the board. We still have strong ethnic representation in the class, almost where it was before 209. And it is more challenging for an admissions office to accomplish that now because the minority students who are admitted here without affirmative action are among the top minority students throughout the country. They are being courted by all the great schools and so it is particularly satisfying when they choose us.”

Oh yeah I know it's illegal. Just commenting on the apparent strangeness of the fact that my bf got dinged and I didn't