Yale c/o 2016 Applicants (2012-2013 cycle) Forum

[vman21]

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[masked kavana]

Just submitted. Time to cross fingers.

As for the 250 I wrote about an incident that happened when I was a child and how it affected me. Nothing sophisticated.

[hopeful16]

12 new admits in like a two day period. They mean business.

Whattt? How has this info not made it to TLS/LSN?

Hmmm, maybe they're deferrals or something. Honestly, this law school process is bringing out the crazy in me. I think I'll take a break from the YLS FB page.

I know at least one of the recent additions to the facebook group is a deferral, but I don't know about the others.

[ManOfTheMinute]

All I'm gonna say is that my 250 ended with what I think is a very clever double entendre.

Do share!! No matter what you say you're gonna make it to faculty review, and only asha (aka not profs) would check TLS

[az21833]

All I'm gonna say is that my 250 ended with what I think is a very clever double entendre.

Do share!! No matter what you say you're gonna make it to faculty review, and only asha (aka not profs) would check TLS

As soon as I have a decision, I'll put the thing up in the enduring 250s thread.

in other wrods as soon as worm gets in

[ManOfTheMinute]

All I'm gonna say is that my 250 ended with what I think is a very clever double entendre.

Do share!! No matter what you say you're gonna make it to faculty review, and only asha (aka not profs) would check TLS

As soon as I have a decision, I'll put the thing up in the enduring 250s thread.

in other wrods as soon as worm gets in

He tries to play coy with us, but we see through him.

[carboncopyx]

He tries to play coy with us, but we see through him.

Of course. Thus the double entendre instead of something more blatant. I'm sure Asha appreciated it.

[Ti Malice]

As for worries about going the academic route on the Y250, I would not stress. I think it's best to write what comes naturally. I am sure some very academic 250s are great, but I can't help but imagine that many come off sounding forced. It is not easy to make an original academic point in 250 words, esp. when your audience consists of 4 outstanding scholars (Asha +3 profs).

Not that I didn't try -- after 25 drafts on everything from the relationship between Hegelian thought and poverty to how nanorobotics will impact the law, I stopped trying to be clever and went with a simple anecdote that I learned something from.

Excellent advice. Most of the best 250s I've helped edit on this site have been non-academic. The format does not lend itself well to non-superficial academic writing, and whatever you say is unlikely to deeply impress Yale Law professors anyway.

[Jcastro1]

I wrote my 250 on a course I took in freshman year that deeply influenced me.

However, I seem to think this is stereotypical/something that hundreds of applicants do.

Any thoughts here?

[Mr. Elshal]

I wrote mine about a time when I was caught on the beach during a hurricane and watched my favorite boardwalk float away to sea, and how that experience helped shape me. Not academically impressive, but I figured I couldn't possibly top any of the other applicants with my academic experiences so I decided to just have fun with it and use it as an exploratory piece.

Caveat: I have not gotten in so far.

[ManOfTheMinute]

As for worries about going the academic route on the Y250, I would not stress. I think it's best to write what comes naturally. I am sure some very academic 250s are great, but I can't help but imagine that many come off sounding forced. It is not easy to make an original academic point in 250 words, esp. when your audience consists of 4 outstanding scholars (Asha +3 profs).

Not that I didn't try -- after 25 drafts on everything from the relationship between Hegelian thought and poverty to how nanorobotics will impact the law, I stopped trying to be clever and went with a simple anecdote that I learned something from.

Excellent advice. Most of the best 250s I've helped edit on this site have been non-academic. The format does not lend itself well to non-superficial academic writing, and whatever you say is unlikely to deeply impress Yale Law professors anyway.

Uh-oh, I went academic. It tied into the "theme" of my app, but still kinda worried now...

[Yukos]

I did the worst of both worlds: I procrastinated until January and then wanted to submitted before it got to much later so rushed my 250. So I pretty much everyone else in this thread can take solace in the fact that you're smarter than me

My 250 was about living very close to a terrorist act, and my complicated sympathy for/rejection of the terrorists that developed as I got older.

[TripTrip]

My 250 was about living very close to a terrorist act, and my complicated sympathy for/rejection of the terrorists that developed as I got older.

Got it.

[Yukos]

EDIT: Since someone pointed out in another thread that Asha specifically reads TLS, I think I'll just let my 250 speak for itself until I get an admissions decision

[ManOfTheMinute]

EDIT: Since someone pointed out in another thread that Asha specifically reads TLS, I think I'll just let my 250 speak for itself until I get an admissions decision

Then don't you wanna delete/edit your posts about the topic?

[Yukos]

Well it's already been quoted and I'm not so worried about outing myself. It's more that it's a somewhat controversial subject and I don't want to make comments about the topic that are stronger than my 250 is.

Also, it has nothing to do with the US.

[Elston Gunn]

As for worries about going the academic route on the Y250, I would not stress. I think it's best to write what comes naturally. I am sure some very academic 250s are great, but I can't help but imagine that many come off sounding forced. It is not easy to make an original academic point in 250 words, esp. when your audience consists of 4 outstanding scholars (Asha +3 profs).

Not that I didn't try -- after 25 drafts on everything from the relationship between Hegelian thought and poverty to how nanorobotics will impact the law, I stopped trying to be clever and went with a simple anecdote that I learned something from.

Excellent advice. Most of the best 250s I've helped edit on this site have been non-academic. The format does not lend itself well to non-superficial academic writing, and whatever you say is unlikely to deeply impress Yale Law professors anyway.

Uh-oh, I went academic. It tied into the "theme" of my app, but still kinda worried now...

Mine was pseudo-academic. Don't sweat this stuff now that it's in. Plenty of people write acdemic 250s and get in, even if it's not necessarily the credited advice.

[Ti Malice]

As for worries about going the academic route on the Y250, I would not stress. I think it's best to write what comes naturally. I am sure some very academic 250s are great, but I can't help but imagine that many come off sounding forced. It is not easy to make an original academic point in 250 words, esp. when your audience consists of 4 outstanding scholars (Asha +3 profs).

Not that I didn't try -- after 25 drafts on everything from the relationship between Hegelian thought and poverty to how nanorobotics will impact the law, I stopped trying to be clever and went with a simple anecdote that I learned something from.

Excellent advice. Most of the best 250s I've helped edit on this site have been non-academic. The format does not lend itself well to non-superficial academic writing, and whatever you say is unlikely to deeply impress Yale Law professors anyway.

Uh-oh, I went academic. It tied into the "theme" of my app, but still kinda worried now...

No, don't worry. I shouldn't have expressed that so categorically. Many successful applicants write academic 250s. I was trying to push back against the concern people were showing about having not written academically oriented 250s.

[bleepbloop]

If anyone is curious about the representation of the undergraduate institutions students at YLS attended, check out this link:

http://www.yale.edu/printer/bulletin/ht ... dents.html

It has the total number of YLS students from each undergrad represented (1L, 2L, and 3L) last year--this year's 1L class is not included. Always interesting to see where Yale is drawing its students from.

[pacifica]

If anyone is curious about the representation of the undergraduate institutions students at YLS attended, check out this link:

http://www.yale.edu/printer/bulletin/ht ... dents.html

It has the total number of YLS students from each undergrad represented (1L, 2L, and 3L) last year--this year's 1L class is not included. Always interesting to see where Yale is drawing its students from.

lol, HYP adds up to 205. That's one entire class if I'm not mistaken...

[ManOfTheMinute]

Looks like we're due a lot of rejections this week... or next at the latest. SOOOO exciting.

[ssanonymous]

Looks like we're due a lot of rejections this week... or next at the latest. SOOOO exciting.

You know which day they handed those bad boys out last year?

[ManOfTheMinute]

Looks like we're due a lot of rejections this week... or next at the latest. SOOOO exciting.

You know which day they handed those bad boys out last year?

It got sent out in the mail on Monday February 6th, so people started receiving them on 2/7.

Given this, I guess Asha will start dinging on 2/4 (or 2/11 at the latest)

[rehsalt]

If anyone is curious about the representation of the undergraduate institutions students at YLS attended, check out this link:

http://www.yale.edu/printer/bulletin/ht ... dents.html

It has the total number of YLS students from each undergrad represented (1L, 2L, and 3L) last year--this year's 1L class is not included. Always interesting to see where Yale is drawing its students from.

lol, HYP adds up to 205. That's one entire class if I'm not mistaken...

Yup. And from all eight Ivies you have 293. If you add Stanford, Berkeley and Chicago you get 354 from 11 schools.

Good luck to the rest of us.

[ssanonymous]

Looks like we're due a lot of rejections this week... or next at the latest. SOOOO exciting.

You know which day they handed those bad boys out last year?

It got sent out in the mail on Monday February 6th, so people started receiving them on 2/7.

Given this, I guess Asha will start dinging on 2/4 (or 2/11 at the latest)

Thanks for the info. I thought applicants got rejected via email.