Yale c/o 2020 Applicants (2016-2017) Forum

[OneHandedEconomist]

Off topic question:

Is anyone else here also waiting on like A LOT of places?

I applied to 15. Still waiting on 7 (applied to all between 1/31 and 2/20)

S.E.V.E.N.

It's april.

Help.

I'm waiting on five, but I applied later than late

Applied December. Still waiting on Stanford and Yale and riding the Harvard waitlist.

Mine are all over the place, which is what really confuses me.

In: H, NYU ($$$), Duke ($$$), Berkeley ($$), UCLA ($$$), Vanderbilt ($$$), Wash U ($$$), USC ($$$)
Waiting: Y, S, Chicago, Penn, Michigan, Georgetown, Northwestern

Seems like you should be apartment hunting in NYC, regardless of what Yale says.

Unsure on if NYC is a good place for me. I'm doing back to back ASWs at NYU and Harvard next next weekend though, so hopefully I get a sense.
But even with Vanderbilt $, NYU is still about $100K in debt. That's a lot of debt to still take on when passing over a T3

Yeeeesh, I didn't realize how high COL debt at NYU was!

I'm considering a mid t14 on a full ride, and cost would be 40k (assuming biglaw SA). And even that has me sweating bullets.

[HonestlyThough]

Off topic question:

Is anyone else here also waiting on like A LOT of places?

I applied to 15. Still waiting on 7 (applied to all between 1/31 and 2/20)

S.E.V.E.N.

It's april.

Help.

I'm waiting on five, but I applied later than late

Applied December. Still waiting on Stanford and Yale and riding the Harvard waitlist.

Mine are all over the place, which is what really confuses me.

In: H, NYU ($$$), Duke ($$$), Berkeley ($$), UCLA ($$$), Vanderbilt ($$$), Wash U ($$$), USC ($$$)
Waiting: Y, S, Chicago, Penn, Michigan, Georgetown, Northwestern

Seems like you should be apartment hunting in NYC, regardless of what Yale says.

Unsure on if NYC is a good place for me. I'm doing back to back ASWs at NYU and Harvard next next weekend though, so hopefully I get a sense.
But even with Vanderbilt $, NYU is still about $100K in debt. That's a lot of debt to still take on when passing over a T3

Yeeeesh, I didn't realize how high COL debt at NYU was!

I'm considering a mid t14 on a full ride, and cost would be 40k (assuming biglaw SA). And even that has me sweating bullets.

Don't get me wrong...I'm still definitely considering NYU and hope the visit helps clear things up for me. Berkeley would likely get some serious consideration if they were capable of forking over the kind of $$$ some of the other schools give

[NotPanicking]

Mine are all over the place, which is what really confuses me.
In: H, NYU ($$$), Duke ($$$), Berkeley ($$), UCLA ($$$), Vanderbilt ($$$), Wash U ($$$), USC ($$$)
Waiting: Y, S, Chicago, Penn, Michigan, Georgetown, Northwestern

Funny - waiting on all the same ones + Columbia

Y, Chicago, Columbia, Penn, UVA, Northwestern

Heard back from Chicago, Harvard, Berkeley, and now wait listed from Stanford. Yale is the only one that's radio silent, at this point.

Y is my last one, too! Let's make it a good one *crosses fingers*

SO CLOSE SO GODDAMN CLOSE

[HonestlyThough]

Mine are all over the place, which is what really confuses me.
In: H, NYU ($$$), Duke ($$$), Berkeley ($$), UCLA ($$$), Vanderbilt ($$$), Wash U ($$$), USC ($$$)
Waiting: Y, S, Chicago, Penn, Michigan, Georgetown, Northwestern

Funny - waiting on all the same ones + Columbia

Y, Chicago, Columbia, Penn, UVA, Northwestern

Heard back from Chicago, Harvard, Berkeley, and now wait listed from Stanford. Yale is the only one that's radio silent, at this point.

Y is my last one, too! Let's make it a good one *crosses fingers*

SO CLOSE SO GODDAMN CLOSE

*come on, Asha!*

[Studybuddy17]

Interesting food for thought, I'm unsure if this has been discussed here before: Does it seem presumable that given the small amount of total students admitted, Yale would make sure to do a simple Google search for each applicant before admitting them? If yes, for those whose LinkedIn profile is the first (and sometimes only) significant search result on Google, can checking who has viewed your profile be a good indicator of their potential interest in you as a candidate, and the lack thereof a pretty certain rejection?

[HonestlyThough]

Interesting food for thought, I'm unsure if this has been discussed here before: Does it seem presumable that given the small amount of total students admitted, Yale would make sure to do a Google check on each applicant before admitting them? If yes, for those whose LinkedIn profile is the first (and sometimes only) significant search result on Google, can checking who has viewed your profile be a good indicator if they have been pursuing you as a candidate, and the lack thereof a pretty certain rejection?

I'd doubt it. They could do it without being logged in to leave no indication. Yale is smart

[seeprybyrun]

Interesting food for thought, I'm unsure if this has been discussed here before: Does it seem presumable that given the small amount of total students admitted, Yale would make sure to do a Google check on each applicant before admitting them? If yes, for those whose LinkedIn profile is the first (and sometimes only) significant search result on Google, can checking who has viewed your profile be a good indicator if they have been pursuing you as a candidate, and the lack thereof a pretty certain rejection?

I'd say, in the absence of evidence supporting this hypothesis (namely, that Yale adcomms look at LI profiles prior to an admissions decision), no conclusions can be drawn.

Also, they could hide the fact that they look at your profile.

[Studybuddy17]

Interesting food for thought, I'm unsure if this has been discussed here before: Does it seem presumable that given the small amount of total students admitted, Yale would make sure to do a Google check on each applicant before admitting them? If yes, for those whose LinkedIn profile is the first (and sometimes only) significant search result on Google, can checking who has viewed your profile be a good indicator if they have been pursuing you as a candidate, and the lack thereof a pretty certain rejection?

I'd doubt it. They could do it without being logged in to leave no indication. Yale is smart

I don't believe a full profile is searchable when not logged in, although one can search in private mode which would still leave an indication that a LinkedIn​ user searched the profile

[Studybuddy17]

Interesting food for thought, I'm unsure if this has been discussed here before: Does it seem presumable that given the small amount of total students admitted, Yale would make sure to do a Google check on each applicant before admitting them? If yes, for those whose LinkedIn profile is the first (and sometimes only) significant search result on Google, can checking who has viewed your profile be a good indicator if they have been pursuing you as a candidate, and the lack thereof a pretty certain rejection?

I'd say, in the absence of evidence supporting this hypothesis (namely, that Yale adcomms look at LI profiles prior to an admissions decision), no conclusions can be drawn.

Also, they could hide the fact that they look at your profile.

Right, definitely no grounds for any conclusion, but I am curious if it would be logical to expect them to search it and therefore I wonder if the lack of recent views by anyone would indicate anything

[KateMcKitten]

Interesting food for thought, I'm unsure if this has been discussed here before: Does it seem presumable that given the small amount of total students admitted, Yale would make sure to do a Google check on each applicant before admitting them? If yes, for those whose LinkedIn profile is the first (and sometimes only) significant search result on Google, can checking who has viewed your profile be a good indicator if they have been pursuing you as a candidate, and the lack thereof a pretty certain rejection?

I'd say, in the absence of evidence supporting this hypothesis (namely, that Yale adcomms look at LI profiles prior to an admissions decision), no conclusions can be drawn.

Also, they could hide the fact that they look at your profile.

Right, definitely no grounds for any conclusion, but I am curious if it would be logical to expect them to search it and therefore I wonder if the lack of recent views by anyone would indicate anything

If you have a paid version I'm 99% sure you can leave no indication that you viewed a page.

[OneHandedEconomist]

These legal employment numbers coming out make it look like smooth sailing in the t13

[acz26]

Anyone have insight into how helpful a recent poetry publication in a university literary journal could be? Not sure if it would even matter at all but curious on people's thoughts

[seeprybyrun]

Anyone have insight into how helpful a recent poetry publication in a university literary journal could be? Not sure if it would even matter at all but curious on people's thoughts

At this point in the process, I think updates are only useful if you end up on the waitlist.

[acz26]

Anyone have insight into how helpful a recent poetry publication in a university literary journal could be? Not sure if it would even matter at all but curious on people's thoughts

At this point in the process, I think updates are only useful if you end up on the waitlist.

That's what I figured. Thanks!

[bs2020]

Really wishing at this point that I had submitted just a *little* bit earlier.... pls free me yale

[HonestlyThough]

Really wishing at this point that I had submitted just a *little* bit earlier.... pls free me yale

As monday's waves rolled in I naively thought this would mostly be over by now.

What's with two quiet days in a row at this point?

[bs2020]

Really wishing at this point that I had submitted just a *little* bit earlier.... pls free me yale

As monday's waves rolled in I naively thought this would mostly be over by now.

What's with two quiet days in a row at this point?

I guess Asha isn't scary enough without the baton lol

[pretzeltime]

Really wishing at this point that I had submitted just a *little* bit earlier.... pls free me yale

As monday's waves rolled in I naively thought this would mostly be over by now.

What's with two quiet days in a row at this point?

I think the remaining decisions are dependent on faculty returning their files, hence the hold up. there are A) people who submitted later whose files are still being read/returned and B) a much larger group of people who already went through FR and are borderline candidates being held who might fill in the few spots left and the waitlist and some dings. So they have to get all the files, admit the super special peeps, and then slog through us poor, middling souls

[OneHandedEconomist]

Really wishing at this point that I had submitted just a *little* bit earlier.... pls free me yale

As monday's waves rolled in I naively thought this would mostly be over by now.

What's with two quiet days in a row at this point?

I think the remaining decisions are dependent on faculty returning their files, hence the hold up. there are A) people who submitted later whose files are still being read/returned and B) a much larger group of people who already went through FR and are borderline candidates being held who might fill in the few spots left and the waitlist and some dings. So they have to get all the files, admit the super special peeps, and then slog through us poor, middling souls

Wait, so you think that everyone who has yet to hear back has advanced to the Faculty Review phase?

[pretzeltime]

Really wishing at this point that I had submitted just a *little* bit earlier.... pls free me yale

As monday's waves rolled in I naively thought this would mostly be over by now.

What's with two quiet days in a row at this point?

I think the remaining decisions are dependent on faculty returning their files, hence the hold up. there are A) people who submitted later whose files are still being read/returned and B) a much larger group of people who already went through FR and are borderline candidates being held who might fill in the few spots left and the waitlist and some dings. So they have to get all the files, admit the super special peeps, and then slog through us poor, middling souls

Wait, so you think that everyone who has yet to hear back has advanced to the Faculty Review phase?

I would hope so. I mean, if they haven't, that means Y already knows they're going to reject that person and didn't include them in the ding wave. Which is possible but super shitty

[OneHandedEconomist]

Really wishing at this point that I had submitted just a *little* bit earlier.... pls free me yale

As monday's waves rolled in I naively thought this would mostly be over by now.

What's with two quiet days in a row at this point?

I think the remaining decisions are dependent on faculty returning their files, hence the hold up. there are A) people who submitted later whose files are still being read/returned and B) a much larger group of people who already went through FR and are borderline candidates being held who might fill in the few spots left and the waitlist and some dings. So they have to get all the files, admit the super special peeps, and then slog through us poor, middling souls

Wait, so you think that everyone who has yet to hear back has advanced to the Faculty Review phase?

I would hope so. I mean, if they haven't, that means Y already knows they're going to reject that person and didn't include them in the ding wave. Which is possible but super shitty

Someone should look at the LSN numbers and see if this bears out with the 20% number we heard about earlier. Though, I'm guessing those who use LSN are more neurotic and more competitive for law school apps, so I'm guessing it'd be 30-40% of those users.

Yale may be holding back on dings to mask who was a presumptive reject.

[bs2020]

Really wishing at this point that I had submitted just a *little* bit earlier.... pls free me yale

As monday's waves rolled in I naively thought this would mostly be over by now.

What's with two quiet days in a row at this point?

I think the remaining decisions are dependent on faculty returning their files, hence the hold up. there are A) people who submitted later whose files are still being read/returned and B) a much larger group of people who already went through FR and are borderline candidates being held who might fill in the few spots left and the waitlist and some dings. So they have to get all the files, admit the super special peeps, and then slog through us poor, middling souls

Wait, so you think that everyone who has yet to hear back has advanced to the Faculty Review phase?

I would hope so. I mean, if they haven't, that means Y already knows they're going to reject that person and didn't include them in the ding wave. Which is possible but super shitty

Doesn't that seem like a lot of people to be in FR? Also, honestly not sure that my app would have made it that far, personally.

[pretzeltime]

i mean i have no idea yall.

but LSN is super useless when it comes to yale. it's just really hard to know how many people have been rejected.

[OneHandedEconomist]

I'm guessing there's another ding wave tonight.

[bs2020]

i mean i have no idea yall.

but LSN is super useless when it comes to yale. it's just really hard to know how many people have been rejected.

True. It's definitely a nice idea tho and I'm on board, just for sanity's sake