TLS c/o 2020 - In #Squad We Trust Forum

[brinicolec]

Vandy's app is open as of today, just FYI in case people don't know!

Also, I suppose I can do Michigan's individual thread because I feel like we're so behind! Lol.

[brinicolec]

UMich thread for the people!

[proteinshake]

would anyone be interested in a Negotiations thread? so people know which schools they can use for leverage?

[TexasENG]

would anyone be interested in a Negotiations thread? so people know which schools they can use for leverage?

I would definitely be interested. I have top choices but ultimately it's going to come down to the cost

[ashrice13]

where are all the OP's at? five T14s open next week that are missing a thread

Well, you did just hit a hundred posts...

Is there a technical reason 100 posts matters? I'm not completely against OPing a BU thread...not T14 I know, but it's something at least!

[Baby Gaga]

where are all the OP's at? five T14s open next week that are missing a thread

Well, you did just hit a hundred posts...

Is there a technical reason 100 posts matters? I'm not completely against OPing a BU thread...not T14 I know, but it's something at least!

You can only post pictures if you have 100 posts and people who can't put pics up don't like to OP those threads. That's the main reason I haven't OPed Boalt.

[R. Jeeves]

where are all the OP's at? five T14s open next week that are missing a thread

Well, you did just hit a hundred posts...

Is there a technical reason 100 posts matters? I'm not completely against OPing a BU thread...not T14 I know, but it's something at least!

You can only post pictures if you have 100 posts and people who can't put pics up don't like to OP those threads. That's the main reason I haven't OPed Boalt.

tbh though pictures dont even actually matter so feel free to OP a thread regardless of post count

[dietcoke1]

where are all the OP's at? five T14s open next week that are missing a thread

Well, you did just hit a hundred posts...

Is there a technical reason 100 posts matters? I'm not completely against OPing a BU thread...not T14 I know, but it's something at least!

You can only post pictures if you have 100 posts and people who can't put pics up don't like to OP those threads. That's the main reason I haven't OPed Boalt.

tbh though pictures dont even actually matter so feel free to OP a thread regardless of post count

OP boalt, Gaga. youll get to 100 posts in no time and you can edit the first post later

[Baby Gaga]

where are all the OP's at? five T14s open next week that are missing a thread

Well, you did just hit a hundred posts...

Is there a technical reason 100 posts matters? I'm not completely against OPing a BU thread...not T14 I know, but it's something at least!

You can only post pictures if you have 100 posts and people who can't put pics up don't like to OP those threads. That's the main reason I haven't OPed Boalt.

tbh though pictures dont even actually matter so feel free to OP a thread regardless of post count

OP boalt, Gaga. youll get to 100 posts in no time and you can edit the first post later

Truth. I'll get on that

[R. Jeeves]

UMich thread for the people!

added!

[ashrice13]

BU 2020 all set up

[Baby Gaga]

And Berkeley is up

[Schneidersbetter]

Hey y'all. I deferred Yale last cycle so just thought I'd check in with the class of 2020, wishing you all best of luck. I'm happy to field any app questions feel like I was pretty lucky/blessed last cycle and should be paying it forward. Anyhow, good luck everyone!

[R. Jeeves]

thanks new OPs. just added your threads

[R. Jeeves]

Hey y'all. I deferred Yale last cycle so just thought I'd check in with the class of 2020, wishing you all best of luck. I'm happy to field any app questions feel like I was pretty lucky/blessed last cycle and should be paying it forward. Anyhow, good luck everyone!

thanks! congrats on your awesome outcome!

[R. Jeeves]

Yale, Harvard, Penn, Northwestern, Georgetown, and Colonel still need threads if anyone is interested in OPing

[pretzeltime]

Kind of enjoyed this rant about PSs on Cal's website (https://www.law.berkeley.edu/admissions ... nd-resume/):

“I felt the cold, sharp edge of a knife at my neck.” “ ‘You rich Americans are all alike,’ she screamed.” “I’ve never been so scared in my life.” “The child’s belly was swollen and scabbed.” You get the picture. Starting the essay with a dramatic, unexplained sentence designed to grab the startled reader’s attention. (In fact, what it does to the reader is produce a dismayed feeling of, “Oh no, not another one of these.”). Continuing this dramatic episode for a short paragraph without tipping off its relevance to the application. Beginning the next paragraph by switching to expository style and informing us of what you were doing in this dire situation and how it was part of the background that makes you a special applicant to law school. Developing why you are so special in the rest of the statement. Then concluding with a touching statement returning to the opening gambit, about how now, after law school, you can really help that little girl in rags.

It is very clear that many applicants have been coached by someone that this is how to write a compelling personal statement. This format is transparently manipulative, formulaic, and coached. Except for the occasional novelist we admit, none of our students or graduates is going to write in this style again; none, thank goodness, is going to begin a brief with, “He stood frozen in fear as the gunman appeared out of the darkness.” So, this artifice is irrelevant to law and counter-productive: Once it ceases to surprise – and it did so more than 10 years ago – it just becomes a cliché…. Not only using clichés, but also having been coached ought to, in an ideal world, discount an application. Needless to say, however, I did not hold these statements against the writers. Often the bulk of the statement does report on impressive activities that are relevant to admission. But it is transparent when essay formulas have been coached, and we (should) strongly advise applicants to write in their own voice and style and without trying to dramatize what they have to say in order to attract our attention.”

[brinicolec]

Should I just disclose my illegal lane change ticket to all schools because I'm not really sure if it's considered a misdemeanor or anything? I didn't go to court for it, just paid a fine (don't even remember how much).

[proteinshake]

Should I just disclose my illegal lane change ticket to all schools because I'm not really sure if it's considered a misdemeanor or anything? I didn't go to court for it, just paid a fine (don't even remember how much).

You don't need to disclose speeding tickets, so I wouldn't think so.

[Mint-Berry_Crunch]

Hello I am an applicant



Must've missed this thread I checked like a week ago to see if there was a 2020 thread

[ashrice13]

Hello I am an applicant



Must've missed this thread I checked like a week ago to see if there was a 2020 thread

Welcome! I'm a little disappointed that your avatar doesn't move...I really want it to.

[TexasENG]

Hello I am an applicant



Must've missed this thread I checked like a week ago to see if there was a 2020 thread

Welcome, hopefully this cycle goes well for you

[ponderingmeerkat]

*nothing to see here*

[Mint-Berry_Crunch]

Hello I am an applicant



Must've missed this thread I checked like a week ago to see if there was a 2020 thread

Welcome! I'm a little disappointed that your avatar doesn't move...I really want it to.

Me too I tried to make it a gif but failed

[TexasENG]

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