Stanford Law School c/o 2018 Applicants (2014-2015 Cycle) Forum

[RSN]

they dont do interviews r u new

I joined today, yes. I wasn't aware that Stanford and Yale didn't do them, as the websites I was browsing prior to joining TLS indicated that there were students that had interviews. Apologies.

check out the what to expect when ur expecting thread.

only H and Chicago interview all admits in HYSCCN

Columbia does as well.

Columbia interviews some admits, but many many people have gotten in via email without interviews.

[eed333]

edited

[antiworldly]

DLS, and it looks like they've started making calls, so hopefully?

[Mack.Hambleton]

DLS means WL/deny from past years

[qwertyTLS]

to those who have been accepted, did your status checkers also change to DLS? hopefully it's different from last year

[LoganCouture]

to those who have been accepted, did your status checkers also change to DLS? hopefully it's different from last year

Yes - mine now says "a decision letter has been sent" across the top. But it didn't change until a while after acceptance - I think I had checked the day of the call and the day after and it hadn't changed yet.

[honey]

No DLS, applied in sept-oct (haven't heard back)

[radcaster]

Accepted yesterday by phone. Status checker has not changed yet.

[bobleman300]

Mine says DLS, but that is new as of today. I was accepted last Friday and it had not changed that day.

[Mack.Hambleton]

If yours goes DLS without an acceptance call then WL/ding us how it was in the past

[qwertyTLS]

If yours goes DLS without an acceptance call then WL/ding us how it was in the past

oh gosh, this is by snail mail? that's brutal

eta although i guess it's a bit early in the cycle for it to be a wl

[Mack.Hambleton]

If yours goes DLS without an acceptance call then WL/ding us how it was in the past

oh gosh, this is by snail mail? that's brutal

eta although i guess it's a bit early in the cycle for it to be a wl

yes by snail mail, although u can call the office and ask

[pylon]

Looks like SLS is making calls today!

http://stanford.lawschoolnumbers.com/applicants

[wonka]

Looks like SLS is making calls today!

http://stanford.lawschoolnumbers.com/applicants

[w0w]

I got DLS on my status checker too but no clue as to when bc I'm not sure the last time I checked it. So it's prob a WL/ding then?

[Mack.Hambleton]

I got DLS on my status checker too but no clue as to when bc I'm not sure the last time I checked it. So it's prob a WL/ding then?

Just call the office and ask for ur decision

[w0w]

I got DLS on my status checker too but no clue as to when bc I'm not sure the last time I checked it. So it's prob a WL/ding then?

Just call the office and ask for ur decision

Ehh I could do a couple more days of not being rejected.

[tk17]

Ehh I could do a couple more days of not being rejected.

This made me laugh.

[The thinker]

anyone who went DLS today mind sharing a submit date? or more info? PM if you feel more comfortable

[w0w]

anyone who went DLS today mind sharing a submit date? or more info? PM if you feel more comfortable

I believe mine was sept 15/16th I'm too lazy to check though.

[fra]

For people who are still waiting to hear back - I've been keeping track of people who have received decisions both here and on lawschoolnumbers and have done a little analysis based on numbers:

So far I've recorded 38 acceptances.



It seems that they are focusing on holding their GPA median over their LSAT median so far in the the cycle (since 66% of admits that I know of are above the GPA median, while 50% are above the LSAT median).

Using their published admissions index formula (0.018(LSAT)+0.402(GPA)-1.172) the admits so far range between 3.231 (URM) and 3.662. The lowest non-URM index is 3.396.

[bostonkid]

For people who are still waiting to hear back - I've been keeping track of people who have received decisions both here and on lawschoolnumbers and have done a little analysis based on numbers:

So far I've recorded 38 acceptances.


It seems that they are focusing on holding their GPA median over their LSAT median so far in the the cycle (since 66% of admits that I know of are above the GPA median, while 50% are above the LSAT median).

Using their published admissions index formula (0.018(LSAT)+0.402(GPA)-1.172) the admits so far range between 3.231 (URM) and 3.662. The lowest non-URM index is 3.396.

Thanks for these data! Do you know of any similar historical data (past cycles) based on their admissions index formula?

[fra]

Thanks for these data! Do you know of any similar historical data (past cycles) based on their admissions index formula?

Last year's (see edit) results (all taken from mylsn)


From this it appears that index is a slightly better indicator of admissions chances than either LSAT or GPA (which is to be expected, since it accounts for both LSAT and GPA) - but there is still a huge swath of index scores where all results are possible.

ETA: the black lines are 25th, 50th and 75th values - for index graph the lines are the calculated index at both 25ths, 50ths, and 75ths

ETA: I lied about the source of this data - it is actually from 2011-2014, excluding URM.

[pylon]

Using their published admissions index formula (0.018(LSAT)+0.402(GPA)-1.172) the admits so far range between 3.231 (URM) and 3.662. The lowest non-URM index is 3.396.

Whoa - I had no idea they had an index formula that was public. Is it just SLS who publishes theirs?

[fra]

Using their published admissions index formula (0.018(LSAT)+0.402(GPA)-1.172) the admits so far range between 3.231 (URM) and 3.662. The lowest non-URM index is 3.396.

Whoa - I had no idea they had an index formula that was public. Is it just SLS who publishes theirs?

Lots of schools publish them. They are available on LSAC, but they are fricking impossible to find - it takes me 15 minutes every time I try to find them.