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[0L Hoping for 1]

It seems like GPA is weighed heavily right now

[Amelie]

Got my JR1 today...sent 10/21/09. The complete came 10 minutes after the JR1. Scheduled for 11/13.

172 and 4.0 (slightly fudged) here.

Submitted same day... complete email but no JR1

Same here

[Saya]

Got my JR1 today...sent 10/21/09. The complete came 10 minutes after the JR1. Scheduled for 11/13.

172 and 4.0 (slightly fudged) here.

Submitted same day... complete email but no JR1

+1 I fear this doesn't bode well.

[catwoman]

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[lawgunner75]

What does JR1 stand for?!!??!

[bottomshelf]

Got my JR1 today...sent 10/21/09. The complete came 10 minutes after the JR1. Scheduled for 11/13.

172 and 4.0 (slightly fudged) here.

Submitted same day... complete email but no JR1

+1 I fear this doesn't bode well.

ack! same happened to me...

[Lmao Zedong]

wonder whether it's time to throw in the towel, or at least stop getting my hopes up. i'm well within the green on LSN and LSP, but have feared for a while my lack of softs would do me in. applied ~6 weeks ago and not a word (other than a complete email). sigh.

[go4hls]

Got my JR1 today...sent 10/21/09. The complete came 10 minutes after the JR1. Scheduled for 11/13.

172 and 4.0 (slightly fudged) here.

Submitted same day... complete email but no JR1

+1 I fear this doesn't bode well.

ack! same happened to me...

Hmmm, same here. Same submittal date, went under review 10/28, and got the complete email today, but no JR1. Is the JR1 usually sent out before or slightly (like a few minutes) after the complete email? Or are these cases the exceptions and most ppl hear back a while (i.e. a few days) after their complete email?

[HowardRoark]

Ive never used TLS before, but have SCOURED it in search of information. So, for all of you who are doing the same I figure i'd post too.
Went complete and got the JR1 within 5 minutes of each other. I submitted on October 20th.
Roughly a 175 3.85 or the equivalent thereof.
Best of luck.

[bottomshelf]

anyone remember what happened last year?

edit: w/r/t the complete + no immediate e-mail?

[crackberry]

Hmmm, same here. Same submittal date, went under review 10/28, and got the complete email today, but no JR1. Is the JR1 usually sent out before or slightly (like a few minutes) after the complete email? Or are these cases the exceptions and most ppl hear back a while (i.e. a few days) after their complete email?

I got the complete email on 9/29 and my JR1 invitation on 10/26.

[alleyoop86]

do JR1s usually get sent out only once a day, early in the morning?

[booby87]

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[DoubleChecks]

wonder whether it's time to throw in the towel, or at least stop getting my hopes up. i'm well within the green on LSN and LSP, but have feared for a while my lack of softs would do me in. applied ~6 weeks ago and not a word (other than a complete email). sigh.

dont give up hope just for that reason ~ imo, my softs are weak to at BEST average compared to most TLSers haha

[DoubleChecks]

do JR1s usually get sent out only once a day, early in the morning?

i got mine in the afternoon...but i dont know if he's changing it up since i got mine early in the cycle, and this whole complete email/JR1 thing didnt apply then

[booby87]

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[village-idiot]

Just got an email asking me to apply! Not a fee waiver or anything ha, but definitely still quite excited.

[suckafree]

I just got my complete email today! I submitted on 10-19. Although I am a reverse splitter, I hope that my softs will make up for it...

[joshikousei]

anyone remember what happened last year?

edit: w/r/t the complete + no immediate e-mail?

all over the place, no good trend.

early in the cycle, people tended to get the TS1 emails before the complete emails. in the middle/toward the end, the TS1 timing was less predictable (could come before or after the complete).

this year, the TS1 emails seem to come just as the complete emails come. maybe the adcom has a more systematic thing going on now.

[joshikousei]

wonder whether it's time to throw in the towel, or at least stop getting my hopes up. i'm well within the green on LSN and LSP, but have feared for a while my lack of softs would do me in. applied ~6 weeks ago and not a word (other than a complete email). sigh.

rooting for you.

[Lmao Zedong]

wonder whether it's time to throw in the towel, or at least stop getting my hopes up. i'm well within the green on LSN and LSP, but have feared for a while my lack of softs would do me in. applied ~6 weeks ago and not a word (other than a complete email). sigh.

dont give up hope just for that reason ~ imo, my softs are weak to at BEST average compared to most TLSers haha

well, at this point, it wouldn't giving up just for that reason - it would be giving up based on the combination of that and having sat in the dark for six weeks. i mean, it's clear at this point that my app has been read and passed over, maybe multiple times, and that they weren't impressed enough the first time through to give me a call. i certainly didn't expect to be an auto-admit, but also can't help but wonder how likely it is for them to change their minds and find something they like where they weren't previously impressed.

i understand the concept of waiting until more apps come in in order to be able to evaluate earlier apps in a more comprehensive context, and i assume that's what's being done to mine (and other early JR1-less applicants). but i'm not optimistic about the success rate of applicants who are put in that position

wonder whether it's time to throw in the towel, or at least stop getting my hopes up. i'm well within the green on LSN and LSP, but have feared for a while my lack of softs would do me in. applied ~6 weeks ago and not a word (other than a complete email). sigh.

rooting for you.

thank you, that makes two of us

[emptybee]

I'd be careful about jumping to conclusions about early JR1 = near admit, at least to the same degree as it did last year. With a new dean, maybe he's interviewing more people than they're going to accept. Especially given the relative shift in early JR1's (i.e. high GPA/strong softs/~25th LSAT (like me)). I can't imagine HLS making a quasi-significant paradigm shift in who they accept.

[Lmao Zedong]

Especially given the relative shift in early JR1's (i.e. high GPA/strong softs/~25th LSAT (like me)). I can't imagine HLS making a quasi-significant paradigm shift in who they accept.

hmm, yeah it seems like this is actually still going on, interestingly enough. how many confirmed cases have we seen of sub-3.8 JR1s? just two, to my recollection - there was a 3.69/179 someone pointed out on LSN and msoftceo in this thread, who reported being a traditional splitter. it seems like the strong majority of the JR1s we have seen have had GPAs above median, but LSATs have spanned the full range from 25 to 75 and above

[lz06]

well, at this point, it wouldn't giving up just for that reason - it would be giving up based on the combination of that and having sat in the dark for six weeks. i mean, it's clear at this point that my app has been read and passed over, maybe multiple times, and that they weren't impressed enough the first time through to give me a call. i certainly didn't expect to be an auto-admit, but also can't help but wonder how likely it is for them to change their minds and find something they like where they weren't previously impressed.

i understand the concept of waiting until more apps come in in order to be able to evaluate earlier apps in a more comprehensive context, and i assume that's what's being done to mine (and other early JR1-less applicants). but i'm not optimistic about the success rate of applicants who are put in that position

Gargamel I'm in the same boat! I'm not feeling optimistic at all either..

[0L Hoping for 1]

well, at this point, it wouldn't giving up just for that reason - it would be giving up based on the combination of that and having sat in the dark for six weeks. i mean, it's clear at this point that my app has been read and passed over, maybe multiple times, and that they weren't impressed enough the first time through to give me a call. i certainly didn't expect to be an auto-admit, but also can't help but wonder how likely it is for them to change their minds and find something they like where they weren't previously impressed.

i understand the concept of waiting until more apps come in in order to be able to evaluate earlier apps in a more comprehensive context, and i assume that's what's being done to mine (and other early JR1-less applicants). but i'm not optimistic about the success rate of applicants who are put in that position

Gargamel I'm in the same boat! I'm not feeling optimistic at all either..

Same boat, no optimism for my top choice