Chicago c/o 2016 Applicants (2012-2013) Forum

[Rahviveh]

IF YOUVE BEEN ASKED TO INTERVIEW PLEASE FILL THIS OUT!

Google Doc:

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IF YOUVE BEEN ASKED TO INTERVIEW PLEASE FILL THIS OUT!

Google Doc:

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can we sort this by LSAT or something? thanks!

[Rahviveh]

The more people who fill it out, the more it looks like its for borderline applicants. I highlighted in green everyone who is at or above both medians. Everyone else is a URM, splitter, or reverse splitter.

[02889]

Man, that 170/3.64 gives me (and I'm sure many others) a ton of hope. Good luck to everyone on their interviews!

[shntn]

The more people who fill it out, the more it looks like its for borderline applicants. I highlighted in green everyone who is at or above both medians. Everyone else is a URM, splitter, or reverse splitter.

No pressure, though.

[WhiteyCakes]

The more people who fill it out, the more it looks like its for borderline applicants. I highlighted in green everyone who is at or above both medians. Everyone else is a URM, splitter, or reverse splitter.

No pressure, though.

Yeah that made me a little nervous

[pacifica]

The more people who fill it out, the more it looks like its for borderline applicants. I highlighted in green everyone who is at or above both medians. Everyone else is a URM, splitter, or reverse splitter.

No pressure, though.

Yeah that made me a little nervous

Naw, don't be nervous. If anything, I think this kinda shows there's no bias in the interviews right now. I don't proclaim to be an expert in this area (especially since I don't know adcom of Chicago's past history), but right now, spread sheet shows 7/21 (33%) above both medians. I mean, statistically speaking, being above both medians should be 1/2*1/2, or 25%, of the admitted pool right? So it's right around there. Most of the applicants got their things in early, but that's about the only trend. Hope that calmed nerves, if not, feel free to continue to freak out, that's always cool too.

[WhiteyCakes]

Scheduled for next monday afternoon...lets do this

[shntn]

Scheduled for next monday afternoon...lets do this

Nice! I was gonna take that slot, but I decided to do it over my lunch break next Thursday. You'll have to let us know how it goes.

[WhiteyCakes]

Scheduled for next monday afternoon...lets do this

Nice! I was gonna take that slot, but I decided to do it over my lunch break next Thursday. You'll have to let us know how it goes.

Thanks...no idea what to expect. I'm going to review my app and hope they don't ask anything too out of the box

[shntn]

Scheduled for next monday afternoon...lets do this

Nice! I was gonna take that slot, but I decided to do it over my lunch break next Thursday. You'll have to let us know how it goes.

Thanks...no idea what to expect. I'm going to review my app and hope they don't ask anything too out of the box

I can't imagine it'll deviate much from the other interviews I've had so far. Just be ready to elaborate on any portion of your app or resume and have some interesting tidbits about yourself on hand to make you stick out in their minds.

[Rahviveh]

Scheduled for next monday afternoon...lets do this

Nice! I was gonna take that slot, but I decided to do it over my lunch break next Thursday. You'll have to let us know how it goes.

Thanks...no idea what to expect. I'm going to review my app and hope they don't ask anything too out of the box

I can't imagine it'll deviate much from the other interviews I've had so far. Just be ready to elaborate on any portion of your app or resume and have some interesting tidbits about yourself on hand to make you stick out in their minds.

Your priority should be showing why you're interested in attending, and something beyond standard stuff about some particular program. Show that you REALLY want to go to Chicago for good reasons, over any other school.

[yankihote]

The more people who fill it out, the more it looks like its for borderline applicants. I highlighted in green everyone who is at or above both medians. Everyone else is a URM, splitter, or reverse splitter.

No pressure, though.

Yeah that made me a little nervous

Naw, don't be nervous. If anything, I think this kinda shows there's no bias in the interviews right now. I don't proclaim to be an expert in this area (especially since I don't know adcom of Chicago's past history), but right now, spread sheet shows 7/21 (33%) above both medians. I mean, statistically speaking, being above both medians should be 1/2*1/2, or 25%, of the admitted pool right? So it's right around there. Most of the applicants got their things in early, but that's about the only trend. Hope that calmed nerves, if not, feel free to continue to freak out, that's always cool too.

There is no guarantee that 25% of applicants would be above both medians. If it works out that way for any given cycle, it is likely the the result of adcomms wanting it that way. Statistically it is only one possibility among many others that would result in any given set of median gpa and lsat scores.

Just to clarify: 1/2 of applicants are above one of the medians. By multiplying this 1/2 by 1/2 again, you are saying that 1/2 of all applicants that are above one median, say the LSAT median, must also be above the GPA median. This is the faulty assumption. The 1/2 of students above LSAT median could all have GPAs below median. This can work in the opposite as well. My point is that there is no guarantee that 25% are above both.

[UtilityMonster]

I quote from my complete email:

Your application at the University of Chicago Law School is now complete. This means that we have received all required application materials necessary for the Admissions Committee to evaluate your file. No further action is required on your part.

LIARS!!!

[Lavitz]

IF YOUVE BEEN ASKED TO INTERVIEW PLEASE FILL THIS OUT!

Google Doc:

Form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/vie ... SmEwdWc6MQ

Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... wdWc#gid=0

Please fill out, its anonymous

Yeah, mine accidentally went through twice (I'm on my phone). Don't know how to delete it.

[2014]

The spreadsheet has the median GPA botched I think. Isn't it 3.9 for this year?

I ask because the guy with a 3.84 is listed as above both medians

[pacifica]

The more people who fill it out, the more it looks like its for borderline applicants. I highlighted in green everyone who is at or above both medians. Everyone else is a URM, splitter, or reverse splitter.

Yeah that made me a little nervous

Naw, don't be nervous. If anything, I think this kinda shows there's no bias in the interviews right now. I don't proclaim to be an expert in this area (especially since I don't know adcom of Chicago's past history), but right now, spread sheet shows 7/21 (33%) above both medians. I mean, statistically speaking, being above both medians should be 1/2*1/2, or 25%, of the admitted pool right? So it's right around there. Most of the applicants got their things in early, but that's about the only trend. Hope that calmed nerves, if not, feel free to continue to freak out, that's always cool too.

There is no guarantee that 25% of applicants would be above both medians. If it works out that way for any given cycle, it is likely the the result of adcomms wanting it that way. Statistically it is only one possibility among many others that would result in any given set of median gpa and lsat scores.

Just to clarify: 1/2 of applicants are above one of the medians. By multiplying this 1/2 by 1/2 again, you are saying that 1/2 of all applicants that are above one median, say the LSAT median, must also be above the GPA median. This is the faulty assumption. The 1/2 of students above LSAT median could all have GPAs below median. This can work in the opposite as well. My point is that there is no guarantee that 25% are above both.

I agree with your clarification. I don't want to get into a detailed statistical argument here (mostly cus I'm very rusty), but what you pointed out is the other extreme of what I was saying. If we assumed LSAT and GPA are completely independent variables (i.e. everyone is a splitter and reverse-splitter), then it's 0.5*0.5 for probability of people being above both medians, or 25% for candidates are above both medians. If we assumed LSAT and GPA are completely dependent (i.e. there are no such thing as splitters), then its basically 50% for candidates above both medians because you're saying if you're above one, you're automatically above the other.

It's probably somewhere in between those two extremes, which means candidates above both medians will make up between 25-50% of the population, and the spread sheet seems to show that, since approximately 1/3 of the interviewees thus far are above both medians.

Which gets back to my original argument, that nobody needs to freak out that somehow this interview is selected for "borderline candidates", splitters, whatever you named, since it seems like the scores so far shows a random sampling.

[Edit: well, not anymore I guess, it's now 8/32? It was closer to 1/3 earlier during the day.]

[20141023]

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[Yukos]

Got an interview invite today too, first good thing I've heard from a law school so far so I'm happy

[shntn]

Got an interview invite today too, first good thing I've heard from a law school so far so I'm happy

Woot! Good luck!

[Rahviveh]

IF YOUVE BEEN ASKED TO INTERVIEW PLEASE FILL THIS OUT!

Google Doc:

Form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/vie ... SmEwdWc6MQ

Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... wdWc#gid=0

Please fill out, its anonymous

Just as a quick reference, would you be able to add the median for both LSAT and GPA to the bottom of this spreadsheet?

Thanks for this, by the way.... this is some really great information!!

(It is also kind of depressing to see what my numbers are versus everyone else, though. )

Good luck on your interviews everyone!!!

Edit: Also, having whether the applicant was ED or RD might shed some light on things.

I was going to put that, but since these interviews went out before the ED Deadline, I didn't think that was a material factor

[20141023]

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[bernaldiaz]

The more people who fill it out, the more it looks like its for borderline applicants. I highlighted in green everyone who is at or above both medians. Everyone else is a URM, splitter, or reverse splitter.

They may also be interviewing different people for different reasons. Some applicants may be interviewed because they are borderline acceptances, others may be interviewed for scholarship purposes. For example, I highly doubt, now that they have this mechanism in place, that they will give a Ruby to anyone who doesn't interview.

[Lavitz]

Just scheduled for the 18th.

The more people who fill it out, the more it looks like its for borderline applicants. I highlighted in green everyone who is at or above both medians. Everyone else is a URM, splitter, or reverse splitter.

They may also be interviewing different people for different reasons. Some applicants may be interviewed because they are borderline acceptances, others may be interviewed for scholarship purposes. For example, I highly doubt, now that they have this mechanism in place, that they will give a Ruby to anyone who doesn't interview.

My thoughts exactly.

[Yukos]

Just scheduled for the 18th.

The more people who fill it out, the more it looks like its for borderline applicants. I highlighted in green everyone who is at or above both medians. Everyone else is a URM, splitter, or reverse splitter.

They may also be interviewing different people for different reasons. Some applicants may be interviewed because they are borderline acceptances, others may be interviewed for scholarship purposes. For example, I highly doubt, now that they have this mechanism in place, that they will give a Ruby to anyone who doesn't interview.

My thoughts exactly.

There's definitely some numbers on there that are either being interviewed a) as a form of YP (ie to gauge likelihood of actually attending) or b) for scholarship purposes.