International Applicants 2014-15 Forum

pylon · Post by **pylon** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:33 pm

For two schools now, I woke up in confusion to e-mails explaining the financial aid application form for each school, only then to scroll down and see I was accepted lol. International problems ahaha

musedreverie · Post by **musedreverie** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:45 pm

So you need to fill out Need Access form to receive merit based scholarships? When should I fill them out?

This is very confusing, this American system, having had no experience of the States' educational institutions at all

charrob · Post by **charrob** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 3:32 am

I'm glad it's not just me who finds it confusing!

XYL42 · Post by **XYL42** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 3:36 am

Hey everyone, just checking in... Chinese applicant, but went to a private LAC in the States.
I thought the wait for the LSAT score release was the worst part. Obviously I am wrong, since the wait for admission results is the real pain

taptaptop · Post by **taptaptop** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 4:13 am

oh sorry, long time no check here. some updates for me:

169 + AA

ED In Michigan: Admitted 11/25, $$$ 1/7: Dean's Scholarship: 120k (isn't Michigan amazing or what?!)
NYU: rejected (of course)
Cornell: in via email, withdrew after admission to Michigan
WUSTL: in via email, 120k scholarship, withdrew after Michigan
GW: in via email, 120k scholarship, withdrew after Michigan.

Others were still pending when I withdrew.

So I will definitely be going to UMich this summer, let me know if anyone of you might be my classmate!

XYL42 · Post by **XYL42** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 4:28 am

taptaptop wrote:oh sorry, long time no check here. some updates for me:

169 + AA

ED In Michigan: Admitted 11/25, $$$ 1/7: Dean's Scholarship: 120k (isn't Michigan amazing or what?!)
NYU: rejected (of course)
Cornell: in via email, withdrew after admission to Michigan
WUSTL: in via email, 120k scholarship, withdrew after Michigan
GW: in via email, 120k scholarship, withdrew after Michigan.

Others were still pending when I withdrew.

So I will definitely be going to UMich this summer, let me know if anyone of you might be my classmate!

I am so jealous of you. I just want to get over with this application process right now. Congratz on Michigan Law! I have been to Ann Arbor several times, and really liked the city.

taptaptop · Post by **taptaptop** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 4:33 am

XYL42 wrote:
taptaptop wrote:oh sorry, long time no check here. some updates for me:

169 + AA

ED In Michigan: Admitted 11/25, $$$ 1/7: Dean's Scholarship: 120k (isn't Michigan amazing or what?!)
NYU: rejected (of course)
Cornell: in via email, withdrew after admission to Michigan
WUSTL: in via email, 120k scholarship, withdrew after Michigan
GW: in via email, 120k scholarship, withdrew after Michigan.

Others were still pending when I withdrew.

So I will definitely be going to UMich this summer, let me know if anyone of you might be my classmate!

I am so jealous of you. I just want to get over with this application process right now. Congratz on Michigan Law! I have been to Ann Arbor several times, and really liked the city.

Thanks! I do understand how nasty the whole waiting could be, I even had weird dreams about this once in a while.. Anyway, hope you have a great application cycle! Keep us updated!

Hand · Post by **Hand** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 9:37 am

taptaptop wrote:oh sorry, long time no check here. some updates for me:

169 + AA

ED In Michigan: Admitted 11/25, $$$ 1/7: Dean's Scholarship: 120k (isn't Michigan amazing or what?!)
NYU: rejected (of course)
Cornell: in via email, withdrew after admission to Michigan
WUSTL: in via email, 120k scholarship, withdrew after Michigan
GW: in via email, 120k scholarship, withdrew after Michigan.

Others were still pending when I withdrew.

So I will definitely be going to UMich this summer, let me know if anyone of you might be my classmate!

That's an excellent scholarship; glad things worked out for you!

Life2good893 · Post by **Life2good893** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 6:33 pm

XYL42 wrote:
taptaptop wrote:oh sorry, long time no check here. some updates for me:

169 + AA

ED In Michigan: Admitted 11/25, $$$ 1/7: Dean's Scholarship: 120k (isn't Michigan amazing or what?!)
NYU: rejected (of course)
Cornell: in via email, withdrew after admission to Michigan
WUSTL: in via email, 120k scholarship, withdrew after Michigan
GW: in via email, 120k scholarship, withdrew after Michigan.

Others were still pending when I withdrew.

So I will definitely be going to UMich this summer, let me know if anyone of you might be my classmate!

I am so jealous of you. I just want to get over with this application process right now. Congratz on Michigan Law! I have been to Ann Arbor several times, and really liked the city.

Wait AA= African American?

You got rejected to NYU with a 169? As an AA URM you'd be very competitive, I thought.

Amazing that you ED to Michigan and still got a substantial scholly. Michigan rocks!

Hand · Post by **Hand** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 8:21 pm

georgetownhopeful893 wrote:
XYL42 wrote:
taptaptop wrote:oh sorry, long time no check here. some updates for me:

169 + AA

ED In Michigan: Admitted 11/25, $$$ 1/7: Dean's Scholarship: 120k (isn't Michigan amazing or what?!)
NYU: rejected (of course)
Cornell: in via email, withdrew after admission to Michigan
WUSTL: in via email, 120k scholarship, withdrew after Michigan
GW: in via email, 120k scholarship, withdrew after Michigan.

Others were still pending when I withdrew.

So I will definitely be going to UMich this summer, let me know if anyone of you might be my classmate!

I am so jealous of you. I just want to get over with this application process right now. Congratz on Michigan Law! I have been to Ann Arbor several times, and really liked the city.
Wait AA= African American?

You got rejected to NYU with a 169? As an AA URM you'd be very competitive, I thought.

Amazing that you ED to Michigan and still got a substantial scholly. Michigan rocks!

I take taptap is referring to his/her LSAC foreign transcript evaluation, where AA = Above Average

musedreverie · Post by **musedreverie** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 9:31 pm

Great news on the scholarship, toptop!

And yeah AA= above average on LSAC evaluation for students with foreign degrees

And as for me, still waiting on 6 out of 7 of my applications...

All submitted in Oct, with exception of SLS which i submitted in mid Dec

Hand · Post by **Hand** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 9:49 pm

musedreverie wrote:Great news on the scholarship, toptop!

And yeah AA= above average on LSAC evaluation for students with foreign degrees

And as for me, still waiting on 6 out of 7 of my applications... All submitted in Oct, with exception of SLS which i submitted in mid Dec

I'm still waiting on 9 out of my 13 applications (mostly sent out early November) after getting in at Cornell this week; did a couple of interviews this week with Columbia and Chicago so hopefully that'll generate some movement on those apps soon.

taptaptop · Post by **taptaptop** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:33 am

Yeah, AA = Above Average.

It seems that you guys all have amazing LSAT scores, hope everything works out great for you!!

jawsjawsjaws · Post by **jawsjawsjaws** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 1:43 am

I hate waking up and realizing that no decisions have been released...

pylon · Post by **pylon** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 2:12 am

jawsjawsjaws wrote:I hate waking up and realizing that no decisions have been released...

+1.

And at the same time sorting through the spam law school e-mails all at once because you're not sure if real decisions are mixed in with them.

taptaptop · Post by **taptaptop** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 3:15 am

pylon wrote:
jawsjawsjaws wrote:I hate waking up and realizing that no decisions have been released...
+1.

And at the same time sorting through the spam law school e-mails all at once because you're not sure if real decisions are mixed in with them.

Oh...those times....

I was literally checking Michigan's status checker at least 10 times a day when I was certain it updated only once a day... Hang in there people!

musedreverie · Post by **musedreverie** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 3:48 am

pylon wrote:
jawsjawsjaws wrote:I hate waking up and realizing that no decisions have been released...
+1.

And at the same time sorting through the spam law school e-mails all at once because you're not sure if real decisions are mixed in with them.

x 1000000

And even for the one acceptance I received so far, I was too delirious from suffering from food poisoning (over chritmas AND the new year's too, that bloody ovepriced sushi

) to realize what it was for like a day.

yc820 · Post by **yc820** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 5:36 am

Me and my cell phone are sleeping in different rooms now after the emails from Valparaiso Law School have waken me up at 4 a.m., thrice.

pylon · Post by **pylon** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 5:47 am

Could we maybe get a new poll asking where everyone is from? I think continents would be easiest, however we could go into more depth with specific countries?

jawsjawsjaws · Post by **jawsjawsjaws** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 6:18 am

taptaptop wrote:
Oh...those times....

I was literally checking Michigan's status checker at least 10 times a day when I was certain it updated only once a day... Hang in there people!

GOOD times lol
Congrats on your $$$$!

musedreverie · Post by **musedreverie** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 6:39 am

pylon wrote:Could we maybe get a new poll asking where everyone is from? I think continents would be easiest, however we could go into more depth with specific countries?

Yah know, I was going to ask that same question, because all the International applicants on this forum say they are woken up at 3~5 in the morning by emails from schools and that made me think everyone's in the same/similar timezone. Plus we all post when no others post.

I'm in a time zone 14 hours faster than EST.

jawsjawsjaws · Post by **jawsjawsjaws** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:04 am

^ same

pylon · Post by **pylon** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:22 am

musedreverie wrote:I'm in a time zone 14 hours faster than EST.

Ooh, that's a good idea for the poll too - by time zone!

taptaptop · Post by **taptaptop** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:06 am

pylon wrote:
musedreverie wrote:I'm in a time zone 14 hours faster than EST.
Ooh, that's a good idea for the poll too - by time zone!

That's gonna be the craziest yet coolest poll ever lol.

taptaptop · Post by **taptaptop** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:53 am

Looking at the stats in the spreadsheet again, how the hell did everyone score that high??! This is gonna scare away the int'l applicants next cycle!

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