Stanford Law School c/o 2018 Applicants (2014-2015 Cycle) Forum

[Hand]

If ur international ur not URM (for law school purposes, I'm not saying you're not an actual minority or whatever)

'cause all foreigners are white or asian amirite

Internationals aren't counted towards URM numbers regardless of their race, isn't that right?

Is that so? Now that you mention it, some canadian guy was talking about this in some other thread iirc... would make zero sense, but then again that has never prevented anything from being the case

[AOT]

If ur international ur not URM (for law school purposes, I'm not saying you're not an actual minority or whatever)

I'm not international, I was just educated abroad

[sneakyleo]

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[psychmusic]

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[blueberrycrumble]

If ur international ur not URM (for law school purposes, I'm not saying you're not an actual minority or whatever)

'cause all foreigners are white or asian amirite

Internationals aren't counted towards URM numbers regardless of their race, isn't that right?

I think I saw on the Spivey thread that they count... their thread is so long though too lazy to find it again haha

[hillz]

Has everyone been submitting school-specific LORs? I know they strongly prefer them...just curious if everyone actually does it.

[whompwhomp]

one of my recs was school-specific... but only to the extent that "your law school" was replaced with SLS ;P

[hillz]

one of my recs was school-specific... but only to the extent that "your law school" was replaced with SLS ;P

Gotcha! I'm gonna try to have two of my recommenders submit a Stanford-specific letter. One has already agreed, but I haven't asked the other (who did go to Stanford, but only as an undergrad) and am hesitant since I didn't ask in the first place. He already submitted a generic letter a while ago, but at the time, I didn't believe that I would do well enough on my LSAT retake to even justify asking him to write a Stanford letter. Kicking myself now.

[hillz]

I also hate to keep waiting to apply since it seems like Stanford takes forever/rejects a lot the later you wait to apply.

[everything_bagel]

Has everyone been submitting school-specific LORs? I know they strongly prefer them...just curious if everyone actually does it.

I got my recommenders to do it. Don't know what one of them did, but one told me she compared me to former students who'd gone to SLS. Can't hurt, right?

It's so weird that SLS does this though. Vaguely YP-y.

[LoganCouture]

Anyone else having problems logging into the status checker right now?

[antiworldly]

Anyone else having problems logging into the status checker right now?

I can't get the one on the website to work, but if I follow the link in the status checker email it works fine, no idea why.

[psychmusic]

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[twitterati]

What % of people who are accepted submitted targeted LORs do you think?

[blueberrycrumble]

Anyone else having problems logging into the status checker right now?

I can't get the one on the website to work, but if I follow the link in the status checker email it works fine, no idea why.

If you google "stanford law status checker", it directs you to the "advanced degree programs" status checker: https://www.law.stanford.edu/degrees/ad ... atus-check

What you want is to either go through the email they sent or to go to their JD admissions and then click on 'Application status check'

I was confused too.

[lilyt93]

What % of people who are accepted submitted targeted LORs do you think?

Good question, I would love to know this. I wonder just how much of a bump it might give you.

[lilyt93]

I got my recommenders to do it. Don't know what one of them did, but one told me she compared me to former students who'd gone to SLS. Can't hurt, right?

It's so weird that SLS does this though. Vaguely YP-y.

I suspect that it has a ton to do with YP!

[t2y2]

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[Vincent]

Faye's reading files.

http://instagram.com/sls_deandeal

(Give her a follow!)

[LSATneurotic]

Faye's reading files.

http://instagram.com/sls_deandeal

Based on the angle of the pen it looks like she was getting ready to write my name down.

[BillsFan9907]

Does SLS do pure rolling or mixed (better applicants at the top).

[fra]

Does SLS do pure rolling or mixed (better applicants at the top).

http://mylsn.info/d/stanford/1314-NoED/
http://mylsn.info/r/pre-law/timeline/chart/

Looks like they do rolling with better applicants at the top.

[lilyt93]

Faye's reading files.

http://instagram.com/sls_deandeal

(Give her a follow!)

I love this!!

[thestatusguo]

What % of people who are accepted submitted targeted LORs do you think?

I did, but don't know if it actually helped. Most people, I would garner, did not, so if you don't have a targeted LOR, I wouldn't stress

I think that if you *can* submit a targeted letter (with more than just the pasting Stanford Law School in the place of law school), it can't hurt - but it definitely won't help you much if your recommenders don't have anything Stanford-specific to say.

[twitterati]

What % of people who are accepted submitted targeted LORs do you think?

I did, but don't know if it actually helped. Most people, I would garner, did not, so if you don't have a targeted LOR, I wouldn't stress

I think that if you *can* submit a targeted letter (with more than just the pasting Stanford Law School in the place of law school), it can't hurt - but it definitely won't help you much if your recommenders don't have anything Stanford-specific to say.

That's good to hear! Thanks