Yale c/o 2019 Applicants (2015-2016) Forum

[lunixer]

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[nicknar]

Application finally sent. Super late to the game & leaving all hope at the door.

[jetsfan1]

I have a LOR question about Yale. I'm submitting 2 academic LORs. I know Asha wrote on her blog that academic LORs are strongly preferred. But I have 1 LOR from my boss that, according to him, should be really good. Would submitting an employer LOR (for my 3rd rec) hurt, help, or have no effect on my application? Gracias in advance!

So, I actually saw my LOR's prior to deciding which one to submit. I just emailed the recommenders and (truthfully) said hey I don't know which LOR to submit and I also have this one. Can you please give me a brief synopsis of what you wrote? Every one of them just emailed me the whole letter. I ended up submitting two academic (both from my Master's program, none from undergrad) and I had to choose between the LOR from my manager of 8 years (who loved me) or from the guy I worked with in my softs who has a super duper impressive backstory. Turned out that that guy had written mostly about himself and not about me, so I submitted the one from my manager. It was a semi-unimpressive job, but vastly superior letter.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you supposed to waive the right to read your recs on LSAC? For some reason I remember doing that.

[lunixer]

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[schocolate]

I'm going to submit my application this weekend. It is the longest of long shots, but I have everything ready and I just need to submit. Please hold me accountable, Internet friends and strangers.

eta: submitted

[iamapipersson]

Hoping I won't get flamed:

I have two uncles who graduated from YLS in the 60s and 70s. My stats are 3.63 gpa and 170 lsat. I know about retakes, and am considering applying next cycle.

Do I stand a chance?

[Hildegard15]

Hoping I won't get flamed:

I have two uncles who graduated from YLS in the 60s and 70s. My stats are 3.63 gpa and 170 lsat. I know about retakes, and am considering applying next cycle.

Do I stand a chance?

Do you have any unique softs? Are you URM? If neither of those, then as it stands now your chances would be very low.

[Po$eidon]

Hoping I won't get flamed:

I have two uncles who graduated from YLS in the 60s and 70s. My stats are 3.63 gpa and 170 lsat. I know about retakes, and am considering applying next cycle.

Do I stand a chance?

Do you have any unique softs? Are you URM? If neither of those, then as it stands now your chances would be very low.

Meh I cosign BUT 2 alumni is a weird soft I can't quantify so I'm less assured than Hilde.

[iamapipersson]

Hoping I won't get flamed:

I have two uncles who graduated from YLS in the 60s and 70s. My stats are 3.63 gpa and 170 lsat. I know about retakes, and am considering applying next cycle.

Do I stand a chance?

Do you have any unique softs? Are you URM? If neither of those, then as it stands now your chances would be very low.

Meh I cosign BUT 2 alumni is a weird soft I can't quantify so I'm less assured than Hilde.

Non-URM, no unique softs.

Yeah I agree. Two YLS alumni is unique.

Do either of you think if I applied next cycle with a slightly better lsat I have a decent shot? I understand GPA is limiting factor here.

[Po$eidon]

Hoping I won't get flamed:

I have two uncles who graduated from YLS in the 60s and 70s. My stats are 3.63 gpa and 170 lsat. I know about retakes, and am considering applying next cycle.

Do I stand a chance?

Do you have any unique softs? Are you URM? If neither of those, then as it stands now your chances would be very low.

Meh I cosign BUT 2 alumni is a weird soft I can't quantify so I'm less assured than Hilde.

Non-URM, no unique softs.

Yeah I agree. Two YLS alumni is unique.

Do either of you think if I applied next cycle with a slightly better lsat I have a decent shot? I understand GPA is limiting factor here.

Better is better. I'd wait it out for them to decide this cycle then plan. It's actually not the LSAT that is weakest it's the GPA anyway. Got any other softs? (This is just weird guessing)

[lunixer]

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[Po$eidon]

Hoping I won't get flamed:

I have two uncles who graduated from YLS in the 60s and 70s. My stats are 3.63 gpa and 170 lsat. I know about retakes, and am considering applying next cycle.

Do I stand a chance?

Do you have any unique softs? Are you URM? If neither of those, then as it stands now your chances would be very low.

Meh I cosign BUT 2 alumni is a weird soft I can't quantify so I'm less assured than Hilde.

Non-URM, no unique softs.

Yeah I agree. Two YLS alumni is unique.

Do either of you think if I applied next cycle with a slightly better lsat I have a decent shot? I understand GPA is limiting factor here.

Better is better. I'd wait it out for them to decide this cycle then plan. It's actually not the LSAT that is weakest it's the GPA anyway. Got any other softs? (This is just weird guessing)

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Otoh, the LSAT is what you can improve. And av LSAT up to 175+, which is entirely possible with adequate studying, would improve your chances astronomically.

This is true for sure.

[LittleGiants16]

Just submitted. It had better be a nice rejection letter for $90.

[salander]

In honor of looming deadlines, new poll is up!

[jetsfan1]

So I read somewhere that Asha accepts about 80-100 applicants directly each year, and the rest (roughly 150) are from profs. Do we have any idea how many she has already accepted this year?

[kfh37]

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Non-URM, no unique softs.

Yeah I agree. Two YLS alumni is unique.

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Two YLS alumni is far from unique, especially when it's uncles rather than parents or siblings. Quite a few of my YLS classmates had 2 YLS parents and/or siblings. No one ever sat around and talked about our LSAT scores and UGPAs, but I know that several of them turned down HLS, SLS, etc for Yale.

Good luck, OP, but I wouldn't count on 2 uncle alumni as being much of a boost.

[salander]

So I read somewhere that Asha accepts about 80-100 applicants directly each year, and the rest (roughly 150) are from profs. Do we have any idea how many she has already accepted this year?

Not a clue, but I think a Facebook update would be helpful right now.

[pigzorz]

Seems like there are about 65 members who aren't admins/deferrals. Almost half of those seem to have joined this past weekend, indicating there was a wave that we missed here (unless I missed something).

[salander]

Seems like there are about 65 members who aren't admins/deferrals. Almost half of those seem to have joined this past weekend, indicating there was a wave that we missed here (unless I missed something).

Thanks! Maybe the first batch of completed faculty reviews came in. YLS didn't tweet, but it could be that they only tweet before phone calls and not if they send out admission emails only.

[mdnyc]

Seems like there are about 65 members who aren't admins/deferrals. Almost half of those seem to have joined this past weekend, indicating there was a wave that we missed here (unless I missed something).

Thanks! Maybe the first batch of completed faculty reviews came in. YLS didn't tweet, but it could be that they only tweet before phone calls and not if they send out admission emails only.

Not sure how the Facebook group works, but if one needs to be approved, then I'd assume the joins this past weekend were due to the office getting around to approving new members. I don't see anyone on LSN or the spreadsheet indicating they were accepted since December.

That said, there was a set of calls on MLK day last year, so my fingers are crossed for a repeat!

[pigzorz]

Seems like there are about 65 members who aren't admins/deferrals. Almost half of those seem to have joined this past weekend, indicating there was a wave that we missed here (unless I missed something).

Thanks! Maybe the first batch of completed faculty reviews came in. YLS didn't tweet, but it could be that they only tweet before phone calls and not if they send out admission emails only.

Not sure how the Facebook group works, but if one needs to be approved, then I'd assume the joins this past weekend were due to the office getting around to approving new members. I don't see anyone on LSN or the spreadsheet indicating they were accepted since December.

That said, there was a set of calls on MLK day last year, so my fingers are crossed for a repeat!

I don't think so - I was in the last wave (in December) and was invited to join right away. I think they're pretty fast. That said, it could be a large group they forgot about or something.

[ddo540]

I have a question. I'm planning on submitting my upcoming February 2016 LSAT score; will that be automatically taken into account even if I submit the application before the February score is out? Much appreciated.

[lunixer]

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[87mm]

Did anyone get a big packet in the mail from Yale too? I was surprised to get it since my numbers are low:

167/3.65 but top eng program in the country. plus WE and an MS.

Is the college activities section a half resume with JUST college activities/gpa?

I feel like I need to split my resume into college and post college.

[Olliedemars]

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