Yale c/o 2018 (2014-2015 Applicants) Forum

[sneakyleo]

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[leslieknope]

Last-minute problem with your application? You actually have until noon EST on 3/3 to submit your app. #ylsadmissionssecrets

AFTER A MIRACULOUS SPOT OF THE BALL IT LOOKS LIKE NICKHALDEN MAY HAVE TIME AND DISTANCE FOR A YALE MARY. JUST SECONDS REMAIN. HE'S RUSHING THE OFFENSE TO THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.

Edit: But seriously LSAC and the Yale website still list the date as 2/28. Will LSAC still take the app if submitted later than 2/28?

I looked through the twitter for tweets from this time last year, and:

@ylsadmissions · Feb 28
Admissions secret for the extreme procrastinator: Due to problems with LSAC's eapp in the past, we built in extra time for the submission.

@ylsadmissions · Feb 28
Although the published deadline date is 2/28, you can actually submit your application until noon on 3/2.

looks like you're in the clear! Go Yale Mary go!

[packer_22]

Question for y'all about the college activities part:

Did you just submit a resume and take off the outside college stuff? I'm KJD and I've been trying to create a new page of college activities, but it just looks...funny...when its not in resume format. Is a list of activities with bullet points describing them OK? Also, how long is TOO long? I've done a LOT of significant ECs in college.

(Please don't quote)

[stoopkid13]

5. You must answer Question 5a-c (honors, extracurriculars, employment during school), even if you are including a resume. Please. We won't complete your application without these answers. Many of you spend a lot of time (based on the questions we get in the office) wondering whether to answer these in bullet format, or in a little spreadsheet, or some other manner. Really, it just needs to be readable. Bullets are fine. If there is some honor or activity that isn't self-explanatory or on which you feel you need to elaborate further, a short narrative is OK.

http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/admissi ... tters.aspx

[omegaweapon]

5. You must answer Question 5a-c (honors, extracurriculars, employment during school), even if you are including a resume. Please. We won't complete your application without these answers. Many of you spend a lot of time (based on the questions we get in the office) wondering whether to answer these in bullet format, or in a little spreadsheet, or some other manner. Really, it just needs to be readable. Bullets are fine. If there is some honor or activity that isn't self-explanatory or on which you feel you need to elaborate further, a short narrative is OK.

http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/admissi ... tters.aspx

That quote always makes me panic that I forgot to add honors, then I go back to check, and remember that that is no longer part of the question.

[Joe47]

Can anyone clarify whether the 250 words essay should be double spaced? I personally like the visual appeal of the single spaced version.

[Philafaler]

Can anyone clarify whether the 250 words essay should be double spaced? I personally like the visual appeal of the single spaced version.

Mine was single-spaced with an extra line b/w paragraphs. I don't think they held it against me.

[ElizabethKB]

Looks like the deadline is extended even longer...
https://twitter.com/ylsadmissions/statu ... 1168939010

[Mack.Hambleton]

Looks like the deadline is extended even longer...
https://twitter.com/ylsadmissions/statu ... 1168939010

More time to lower their admit rate

[ChemEng1642]

Application Complete!

[tk17]

Application Complete!

+1

This will probably be the most exciting moment of my application to Yale.

[ChemEng1642]

Application Complete!

+1

This will probably be the most exciting moment of my application to Yale.

I don't know winning the "quickest rejection" award could be exciting

[whosinthehousejc]

You know that feeling when you set four twenties, a five and three ones on fire?

Edit: I don't type good.

[tk17]

You know that feeling when you set you know that feeling when you set four twenties, a five and three ones on fire?

I'd like to see you come up with another way to make a fire of eight bills last eight+ weeks....

[miamiri]

You know that feeling when you set you know that feeling when you set four twenties, a five and three ones on fire?

I'd like to see you come up with another way to make a fire of eight bills last eight+ weeks....

Nah, this is better. Those bills burn way too quickly...

[RedColossus]

I saw a waitlist show up on LSN, has that finally begun??

[whosinthehousejc]

You know that feeling when you set you know that feeling when you set four twenties, a five and three ones on fire?

I'd like to see you come up with another way to make a fire of eight bills last eight+ weeks....

Nah, this is better. Those bills burn way too quickly...

We could try to burn 88 ones...

[bou]

Checking in guys.
Application Complete.

[miamiri]

You know that feeling when you set you know that feeling when you set four twenties, a five and three ones on fire?

I'd like to see you come up with another way to make a fire of eight bills last eight+ weeks....

Nah, this is better. Those bills burn way too quickly...

We could try to burn 88 ones...

One a day..

[smipt]

What do you think of letting them know that I have an April 1 deadline to accept a scholly offer

[hillz]

What do you think of letting them know that I have an April 1 deadline to accept a scholly offer

Click here - it tells you what to do at the bottom of the page: http://www.law.yale.edu/admissions/notification.htm

ETA: in the future, it's probably best to post the question just once in the TLS 2018 applicants thread since you'll get answers from people applying to a wide variety of schools. If you don't get answers there, you can always ask in Spivey's thread, too. Spamming several threads generally annoys everyone and won't lead to the answers for which you're hoping.

[qwertyTLS]

I have a theory, what do y'all think: not everyone goes to faculty review, right? the decision whether an applicant goes to faculty review or not is based on some cutoff of numbers, by whatever metric YLS uses to index lsat/gpa. that plus whatever files the admissions officers read and think is interesting enough to show to Asha. THEN, faculty review is done independent of lsat/gpa. so the faculty don't know (or don't base their marks) on lsat/gpa. maybe that's why it's more of a blackbox. your numbers 'write you a ticket' so to speak, but then after your softs have to carry you through the faculty review round. thoughts?

[cc78]

I have a theory, what do y'all think: not everyone goes to faculty review, right? the decision whether an applicant goes to faculty review or not is based on some cutoff of numbers, by whatever metric YLS uses to index lsat/gpa. that plus whatever files the admissions officers read and think is interesting enough to show to Asha. THEN, faculty review is done independent of lsat/gpa. so the faculty don't know (or don't base their marks) on lsat/gpa. maybe that's why it's more of a blackbox. your numbers 'write you a ticket' so to speak, but then after your softs have to carry you through the faculty review round. thoughts?

Sadly, I don't think it's that simple. I think there are FR-bypassers who have a HYP 4.0/180 and there are bypassers who have more pedestrian numbers but have sent 300,000 clean drinking straws to Africa. And there are also 4.0/180 (or damn close to it) who get auto dinged. And don't think LSAT/GPA loses meaning once in FR. Asha tells us that there are faculty who care a lot about those metrics and faculty who don't care at all. We want to have some heuristic to tell us what they are going to do, but I think it is what it seems to be--a black box for the vast majority of candidates.

[qwertyTLS]

I have a theory, what do y'all think: not everyone goes to faculty review, right? the decision whether an applicant goes to faculty review or not is based on some cutoff of numbers, by whatever metric YLS uses to index lsat/gpa. that plus whatever files the admissions officers read and think is interesting enough to show to Asha. THEN, faculty review is done independent of lsat/gpa. so the faculty don't know (or don't base their marks) on lsat/gpa. maybe that's why it's more of a blackbox. your numbers 'write you a ticket' so to speak, but then after your softs have to carry you through the faculty review round. thoughts?

Sadly, I don't think it's that simple. I think there are FR-bypassers who have a HYP 4.0/180 and there are bypassers who have more pedestrian numbers but have sent 300,000 clean drinking straws to Africa. And there are also 4.0/180 (or damn close to it) who get auto dinged. And don't think LSAT/GPA loses meaning once in FR. Asha tells us that there are faculty who care a lot about those metrics and faculty who don't care at all. We want to have some heuristic to tell us what they are going to do, but I think it is what it seems to be--a black box for the vast majority of candidates.

didn't know the bolded, thanks. do you have a link to when she said that?

[psychmusic]

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