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

[HonestlyThough]

I just looked over LSN. I know it's a small group, but it actually gave me MORE hope

[guppiesbaby]

I just looked over LSN. I know it's a small group, but it actually gave me MORE hope

why?

[HonestlyThough]

I just looked over LSN. I know it's a small group, but it actually gave me MORE hope

why?

For the most part, the posted rejections for those complete in March are not surprising rejections, and a majority of people are still listed as pending
http://yale.lawschoolnumbers.com/applic ... t=complete


User Name
LSAT GPA Index $$$ Status Sent Complete Decision
Last Updated
PRDub U 169 3.78 Rejected 02/07/17 04/04/17 6 days
aab02006 180 3.61 Pending 02/28/17 03/22/17 15 days
Aldrich I N 172 3.5 Pending 02/28/17 03/21/17 20 days
txwendy 167 2.58 Pending 02/28/17 03/18/17 7 days
baykushoot 174 3.9 Pending 02/27/17 03/18/17 23 days
lshopeful2020 161 3.28 Pending 02/28/17 03/11/17 6 days
vvvvvvvian 170 3.81 Pending 02/28/17 03/11/17 1 month
wygsys I 174 3.65 Pending 02/28/17 03/10/17 1 month
roi 173 3.83 Pending 02/28/17 03/10/17 1 month
Lawtelier 151 2.92 Rejected 02/25/17 03/10/17 04/08/17 1 day
darkknightv 170 3.03 Pending 02/28/17 03/10/17 1 month
mhollwedel 172 3.3 Rejected 02/21/17 03/09/17 04/08/17 2 days
CésarRitz7133 163 3.4 Pending 02/20/17 03/08/17 1 month
phillip76 154 3.98 Rejected 02/19/17 03/08/17 04/08/17 4 hours
BdSfSe1940 177 3.75 Rejected 02/19/17 03/08/17 04/08/17 1 day
estelle 174 3.96 Accepted 02/28/17 03/08/17 04/08/17 9 hours
lsa16 172 3.9 Pending 02/24/17 03/07/17 1 month
seeprybyrun N 178 3.97 Pending 02/27/17 03/07/17 1 month
guymanguy U 171 3.79 Pending 02/27/17 03/07/17 1 month
statsforposterity 180 3.66 Rejected 02/26/17 03/04/17 04/08/17 1 day
NotAGolfer 180 3.29 Rejected 02/23/17 03/04/17 04/08/17 2 days
cocoforcoconuts 173 3.89 Rejected 02/18/17 03/03/17 04/08/17 2 days
Sanger5 161 3.09 Pending 03/03/17 1 month
HonestlyThough 175 3.9 Pending 02/20/17 03/03/17 26 days
ChiTownDDLaw U 159 3.21 Rejected 02/15/17 03/03/17 04/08/17 2 days
klove2020 U 165 3.73 Pending 02/28/17 03/02/17 12 days
NervousTimes 169 3.5 Rejected 03/01/17 03/01/17 04/08/17 24 hours
notsonotorious N 168 3.97 Pending 03/01/17 23 days

[notsonotorious]

Ok folks. Given the FB count, the decent sized wave of admits (and dings) this weekend, including from folks with completes as late as 3/11, I make the depressing prediction that anyone remaining at this point is, at best, waitlist.

As such, I am going to focus my energy on getting excited for NYU.

Good luck ya'll!

How were you able to find the FB group? I've searched all over facebook and Google and haven't been able to find it.

Look through this thread over the last few days -- people from the other side report the numbers back to us

[Pozzo]

I'm a non-URM reverse splitter and sort of don't know why they haven't just rejected me already? I have the equivalent of a 4.0, but am below the 25th LSAT percentile and would just like the agony to end.

[OneHandedEconomist]

This is ridiculous. How big do they need their waitlist to be?

[seeprybyrun]

This is ridiculous. How big do they need their waitlist to be?

Asha might be doing another pass through everybody left to hand-pick the WL.

Might just be me, but I'm personally OK with the wait at this point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[potterotter]

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[OneHandedEconomist]

This is ridiculous. How big do they need their waitlist to be?

As big as it needs to be, SweetTort.

You must be fun at parties.

[potterotter]

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[seeprybyrun]

This is ridiculous. How big do they need their waitlist to be?

As big as it needs to be, SweetTort.

You must be fun at parties.

I'd hang with potterotter at a party!

[SybillAnnDorsett]

I'd hang with potterotter at a party!

[potterotter]

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[Rdominicana15]

Application went under review 1/4/17 --> Still havent heard anything...

Cycle has been messy:

in at Columbia, Berkeley and others
Waitlisted at Michigan, Chicago, Harvard
Rejected: UPenn, Stanford, and Georgetown

Few more days to go I guess.

Are you URM? I am, and everyone I've spoken to highlights the unpredictability of URM cycles - shared rejection from penn too. Related, one of my URM friends is at Yale with low 16x LSAT, and was rejected from half of the t13.

I am a URM. And I hadn't heard of it being this unpredictable. Granted I haven't heard back from NYU either. My numbers are on the lows like low 16x LSAT. 3.79 GPA

[guppiesbaby]

maybe some movement today pls pls

[jjcorvino]

Looking at some of those rejections makes me feel better about not applying (I started writing my 250 and was getting ready to). I feel reassured that I wouldn't have had a chance anyway.

[OneHandedEconomist]

maybe some movement today pls pls

[chandhi]

Looking at some of those rejections makes me feel better about not applying (I started writing my 250 and was getting ready to). I feel reassured that I wouldn't have had a chance anyway.

Lol exactly same but I can't stop watching this thread and rooting for the waiters

[AndromedaGalaxy]

Some baseless speculation:

Yale knows exactly when scholarship deadlines at certain other schools occur because they get emails from people frantic to get answers before the deadline. They could easily treat the pool of remaining applicants as an effective waitlist and decide after for instance Chicago's scholarship deadline tomorrow how many additional acceptances to make once they see how many of their current admits defect for full rides elsewhere.

On our end we might see a handful of acceptances after a major scholarship deadline (or none if only a few people chose the money,) then the rest of us could be divvied up among waitlists and rejections.

I'm starting to think that faculty review is likely complete or nearly complete, so the dynamics of Yale's decision timing would from now on be driven largely by other schools' scholarship and commitment dates.

[OneHandedEconomist]

Some baseless speculation:

Yale knows exactly when scholarship deadlines at certain other schools occur because they get emails from people frantic to get answers before the deadline. They could easily treat the pool of remaining applicants as an effective waitlist and decide after for instance Chicago's scholarship deadline tomorrow how many additional acceptances to make once they see how many of their current admits defect for full rides elsewhere.

On our end we might see a handful of acceptances after a major scholarship deadline (or none if only a few people chose the money,) then the rest of us could be divvied up among waitlists and rejections.

I'm starting to think that faculty review is likely complete or nearly complete, so the dynamics of Yale's decision timing would from now on be driven largely by other schools' scholarship and commitment dates.

This would be so shitty. So they're waiting to see who turns down a full ride on the CHANCE they get into Yale?

[bbp1993]

Some baseless speculation:

Yale knows exactly when scholarship deadlines at certain other schools occur because they get emails from people frantic to get answers before the deadline. They could easily treat the pool of remaining applicants as an effective waitlist and decide after for instance Chicago's scholarship deadline tomorrow how many additional acceptances to make once they see how many of their current admits defect for full rides elsewhere.

On our end we might see a handful of acceptances after a major scholarship deadline (or none if only a few people chose the money,) then the rest of us could be divvied up among waitlists and rejections.

I'm starting to think that faculty review is likely complete or nearly complete, so the dynamics of Yale's decision timing would from now on be driven largely by other schools' scholarship and commitment dates.

This would be so shitty. So they're waiting to see who turns down a full ride on the CHANCE they get into Yale?

I think they meant people who were already accepted but withdraw once they accept the scholarship offer.

[VapidP]

Some baseless speculation:

Yale knows exactly when scholarship deadlines at certain other schools occur because they get emails from people frantic to get answers before the deadline. They could easily treat the pool of remaining applicants as an effective waitlist and decide after for instance Chicago's scholarship deadline tomorrow how many additional acceptances to make once they see how many of their current admits defect for full rides elsewhere.

On our end we might see a handful of acceptances after a major scholarship deadline (or none if only a few people chose the money,) then the rest of us could be divvied up among waitlists and rejections.

I'm starting to think that faculty review is likely complete or nearly complete, so the dynamics of Yale's decision timing would from now on be driven largely by other schools' scholarship and commitment dates.

This would be so shitty. So they're waiting to see who turns down a full ride on the CHANCE they get into Yale?

Can't you just say you'll take the money and then turn it down after getting into Yale? Committing means withdrawing from all other offers, not withdrawing from a school you haven't heard from yet no?

[OneHandedEconomist]

Some baseless speculation:

Yale knows exactly when scholarship deadlines at certain other schools occur because they get emails from people frantic to get answers before the deadline. They could easily treat the pool of remaining applicants as an effective waitlist and decide after for instance Chicago's scholarship deadline tomorrow how many additional acceptances to make once they see how many of their current admits defect for full rides elsewhere.

On our end we might see a handful of acceptances after a major scholarship deadline (or none if only a few people chose the money,) then the rest of us could be divvied up among waitlists and rejections.

I'm starting to think that faculty review is likely complete or nearly complete, so the dynamics of Yale's decision timing would from now on be driven largely by other schools' scholarship and commitment dates.

This would be so shitty. So they're waiting to see who turns down a full ride on the CHANCE they get into Yale?

I think they meant people who were already accepted but withdraw once they accept the scholarship offer.

Ooooohhhhh... haha I'm a moron. Hence why I'm still waiting.

[AndromedaGalaxy]

Some baseless speculation:

Yale knows exactly when scholarship deadlines at certain other schools occur because they get emails from people frantic to get answers before the deadline. They could easily treat the pool of remaining applicants as an effective waitlist and decide after for instance Chicago's scholarship deadline tomorrow how many additional acceptances to make once they see how many of their current admits defect for full rides elsewhere.

On our end we might see a handful of acceptances after a major scholarship deadline (or none if only a few people chose the money,) then the rest of us could be divvied up among waitlists and rejections.

I'm starting to think that faculty review is likely complete or nearly complete, so the dynamics of Yale's decision timing would from now on be driven largely by other schools' scholarship and commitment dates.

This would be so shitty. So they're waiting to see who turns down a full ride on the CHANCE they get into Yale?

No. They would have no way of knowing that (and no one should do that). They could be waiting to see how many of the already admitted people choose a full ride over their Yale admission, because you are expected decline previous offers of admission when accepting a scholarship. Then they can decide whether they need to send a few more acceptances, or just waitlist and reject everyone who's left.

[AndromedaGalaxy]

Some baseless speculation:

Yale knows exactly when scholarship deadlines at certain other schools occur because they get emails from people frantic to get answers before the deadline. They could easily treat the pool of remaining applicants as an effective waitlist and decide after for instance Chicago's scholarship deadline tomorrow how many additional acceptances to make once they see how many of their current admits defect for full rides elsewhere.

On our end we might see a handful of acceptances after a major scholarship deadline (or none if only a few people chose the money,) then the rest of us could be divvied up among waitlists and rejections.

I'm starting to think that faculty review is likely complete or nearly complete, so the dynamics of Yale's decision timing would from now on be driven largely by other schools' scholarship and commitment dates.

This would be so shitty. So they're waiting to see who turns down a full ride on the CHANCE they get into Yale?

I think they meant people who were already accepted but withdraw once they accept the scholarship offer.

Correct. Yale should be anticipating seeing exactly how many people will do that on each of the upcoming scholarship deadlines.