Georgetown C/O 2019 Applicants (2015-2016) Forum

[greenapples]

A bit late in the game, but I'm having a group interview pretty soon.

I searched online including TLS and found out that it's mostly a fun interview answering hypotheticals in a room full of 8-16 people. Unfortunately, I've always been a better writer than speaker, so I want to put a lot of effort preparing for this interview.

Can anyone share their experience and/or offer any advice on how best to answer questions like that and how you guys prepared for it?

Many thanks and Happy Friday!

[TheKisSquared]

A bit late in the game, but I'm having a group interview pretty soon.

I searched online including TLS and found out that it's mostly a fun interview answering hypotheticals in a room full of 8-16 people. Unfortunately, I've always been a better writer than speaker, so I want to put a lot of effort preparing for this interview.

Can anyone share their experience and/or offer any advice on how best to answer questions like that and how you guys prepared for it?

Many thanks and Happy Friday!

It's a difficult interview to prepare for. They're going to give you some hypothetical applicants and you're going to work with a group to reject, waitlist, or accept the applicant. Work with your peers and think of a BRIEF reason why you personally felt the way you did and also be able to accurately reflect the group's feelings. Don't be a gunner. Don't be a mouse. You'll be fine.

[kthegem]

I just had my alumni interview and I feel it went well. How much influence do they have over our decision and how long did it take for most people to receive their decision after their interview?

thanks

[Adcomm]

Rejected

[johnclaudio1010]

I just had my alumni interview and I feel it went well. How much influence do they have over our decision and how long did it take for most people to receive their decision after their interview?

thanks

I was told by my interviewer that I would receive a favorable review. I received a preferred waitlist email about a month later (I suspect that they were waiting for my Fall semester grades before making a decision so that may well have played a part).

Good Luck!

[sox49]

Rejected

Via email?

[Adcomm]

Rejected

Via email?

Yes, today via email. I applied ED and went Complete on 1/12.

[slizerd]

lol waitlisted today

[WatchClosely]

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[seagan823]

A bit late in the game, but I'm having a group interview pretty soon.

I searched online including TLS and found out that it's mostly a fun interview answering hypotheticals in a room full of 8-16 people. Unfortunately, I've always been a better writer than speaker, so I want to put a lot of effort preparing for this interview.

Can anyone share their experience and/or offer any advice on how best to answer questions like that and how you guys prepared for it?

Many thanks and Happy Friday!

My group interview was the same format. 12 people in a room broken into three groups to work through applicants to admit. Dean Cornblatt gave us all signs with our names to put out in front of us and would call us by name after we had discussed in small group to answer questions. There was no real pressure to get your voice heard because people had equal time to talk.

It was really quite enjoyable. You can't really prepare for it. Just go in relaxed and ready to think and discuss.

[mattf27]

Put on priority waitlist yesterday.

[BirdLawExpert]

I'm now on waitlists at 6/13 schools I applied to. Hoorah.

Oh wow, that's insane! Hopefully you get some better news or some real movement from at least a few of those schools sometime soon.

[WatchClosely]

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[Bach-City]

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[BirdLawExpert]

I'm now on waitlists at 6/13 schools I applied to. Hoorah.

Oh wow, that's insane! Hopefully you get some better news or some real movement from at least a few of those schools sometime soon.

Thanks for saying that. I'm sure you'd be happy to hear if I got good news, since you're by far the most similar applicant to me (numbers-wise) on myLSN, and vice-versa.

Oh for sure, as far as I'm concerned we're in this together haha. It's weird that you've been WL'd so many places and I've only been hit with one (from UCLA). This whole thing is just a crapshoot.

[Bowman13]

How does Gtown WL a 179? There aren't many of you guys out there. You got hosed.

[OtterLaw]

How does Gtown WL a 179? There aren't many of you guys out there. You got hosed.

How do 4.0 GPAs get waitlisted? It's only one aspect of the application process. And yes, it's a crapshoot.

[Bowman13]

All 4.0's are not created equal. But a 179 is a 179.

[JuliusCaesar]

All 4.0's are not created equal. But a 179 is a 179.

179 attached to a 2.9 though.

[OtterLaw]

All 4.0's are not created equal. But a 179 is a 179.

Here's my thing. A 4.0 is at least a 4-year endeavor (For me it was a 5-year endeavor with a double major; a total of 170 hours of course work). A 179 is on a 4-hour exam. I am by no means down-playing how impressive scoring a 179 is on the LSAT, but it's infuriating when an adcomm puts more stock into a 4-hour exam than a 4-year degree GPA. I know there many facets considered when applying to law school, but my experience this cycle is that nobody cares that some of us dedicated 4 years to obtaining a stellar GPA.

[ProductofUnreality]

All 4.0's are not created equal. But a 179 is a 179.

Here's my thing. A 4.0 is at least a 4-year endeavor (For me it was a 5-year endeavor with a double major; a total of 170 hours of course work). A 179 is on a 4-hour exam. I am by no means down-playing how impressive scoring a 179 is on the LSAT, but it's infuriating when an adcomm puts more stock into a 4-hour exam than a 4-year degree GPA. I know there many facets considered when applying to law school, but my experience this cycle is that nobody cares that some of us dedicated 4 years to obtaining a stellar GPA.

At the same time the LSAT is specifically designed to test your aptitude for law school. Also it's not 'just a four hour exam'. If you say that you have to subtract all the time we spent studying and in lectures and not actively doing coursework. If you distill it like that we all probably spent like two weeks to a month earning our GPAs.

[OtterLaw]

All 4.0's are not created equal. But a 179 is a 179.

Here's my thing. A 4.0 is at least a 4-year endeavor (For me it was a 5-year endeavor with a double major; a total of 170 hours of course work). A 179 is on a 4-hour exam. I am by no means down-playing how impressive scoring a 179 is on the LSAT, but it's infuriating when an adcomm puts more stock into a 4-hour exam than a 4-year degree GPA. I know there many facets considered when applying to law school, but my experience this cycle is that nobody cares that some of us dedicated 4 years to obtaining a stellar GPA.

At the same time the LSAT is specifically designed to test your aptitude for law school. Also it's not 'just a four hour exam'. If you say that you have to subtract all the time we spent studying and in lectures and not actively doing coursework. If you distill it like that we all probably spent like two weeks to a month earning our GPAs.

Are you really saying that earning a 4-year degree is a 2 to 4-week endeavor? I don't really follow, nor do I agree at all. Again, I do see the value of the LSAT. Realistically it's the only way to compare law school candidates as it's a standardized test that we all take thus it's equal across all disciplines. I'm just saying a stellar GPA is not easy to obtain and it's disappointing when it seems to not even be considered by adcomms.

But I get how you feel the way you do being a splitter. I guess we all feel strongly about our strengths.

[ProductofUnreality]

All 4.0's are not created equal. But a 179 is a 179.

Here's my thing. A 4.0 is at least a 4-year endeavor (For me it was a 5-year endeavor with a double major; a total of 170 hours of course work). A 179 is on a 4-hour exam. I am by no means down-playing how impressive scoring a 179 is on the LSAT, but it's infuriating when an adcomm puts more stock into a 4-hour exam than a 4-year degree GPA. I know there many facets considered when applying to law school, but my experience this cycle is that nobody cares that some of us dedicated 4 years to obtaining a stellar GPA.

At the same time the LSAT is specifically designed to test your aptitude for law school. Also it's not 'just a four hour exam'. If you say that you have to subtract all the time we spent studying and in lectures and not actively doing coursework. If you distill it like that we all probably spent like two weeks to a month earning our GPAs.

Are you really saying that earning a 4-year degree is a 2 to 4-week endeavor? I don't really follow, nor do I agree at all. Again, I do see the value of the LSAT. Realistically it's the only way to compare law school candidates as it's a standardized test that we all take thus it's equal across all disciplines. I'm just saying a stellar GPA is not easy to obtain and it's disappointing when it seems to not even be considered by adcomms.

I'm saying that the way you're considering the LSAT "only a four hour exam" means that you've not included the time it takes to study for and prepare for the LSAT. You are only considering the amount of time the actual graded work took. By that rationale you can only consider the amount of time the actual graded work took for you to get a 4 year degree. Meaning time spent sleeping, eating, relaxing, studying, being in lectures, etc. do not count towards the time it took to get a 4 year degree.

What I'm getting at is if you're going to reduce the LSAT to the actual time it took to do the work that would be graded, you have to do that for a 4 year degree as well, otherwise you're not comparing them fairly.

I agree with you, I just don't think it's fair to call the LSAT just a four hour exam considering the months of preparation that go into it.

[OtterLaw]

But ultimately you are agreeing that the work that goes into a GPA is more than the LSAT (4 hours compared to 4 weeks). I just wish the GPA counted for more than it does. Reverse splitters seem to get snubbed a lot, and for those of us who put a lot of effort into our UG degrees, its disappointing.

[chickensoup1234]

But ultimately you are agreeing that the work that goes into a GPA is more than the LSAT (4 hours compared to 4 weeks). I just wish the GPA counted for more than it does. Reverse splitters seem to get snubbed a lot, and for those of us who put a lot of effort into our UG degrees, its disappointing.

Usually I don't love to chime in but... in a vacuum, a 179 lsat is more impressive than a 4.0 gpa. (Unless you give me your transcript and I can see the actual courses and curves for each class).