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[20170322]

I WITHDREW ALL MY APPS AND SUBMITTED MY SEAT DEPOSIT!!! I'M GOING TO BE A CAVALIER!!!!!!!!

[Lawschool305]

Congrats!

[curry1]

I WITHDREW ALL MY APPS AND SUBMITTED MY SEAT DEPOSIT!!! I'M GOING TO BE A CAVALIER!!!!!!!!

CONGRATS!

[PrezRand]

I WITHDREW ALL MY APPS AND SUBMITTED MY SEAT DEPOSIT!!! I'M GOING TO BE A CAVALIER!!!!!!!!

Congrats again man! Dillard is the best holiday gift ever

[canafsa]

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[20170322]

I WITHDREW ALL MY APPS AND SUBMITTED MY SEAT DEPOSIT!!! I'M GOING TO BE A CAVALIER!!!!!!!!

Outstanding. May I ask your stats, date of application, and whether you included any additional materials?

Over both 75ths, late October, Why UVA.

[dddddd90]

So I asked this earlier but it didn't really get any traction: with people getting scholarships of all ranges in the mail now with their admissions packets, should those of us who got the packet and nothing else pretty much assume we're gonna be asked to pay sticker? I love UVA, but that's just not happening.

50%>GPA>25 %
LSAT>75%
And Va resident for what it's worth.

We have similar numbers, so I wouldn't count yourself out. Also, no shade on any of our resident Dillards, but I'm guessing a few of them (and lots of people initially offered less money as well) will end up going HYS. When that happens, other people will get offered $$. No matter what, if I were you, I'd wait to pull the trigger on a deposit until the day it's due. You might get a last minute offer that way.

[Bob loblaw law blog]

So I asked this earlier but it didn't really get any traction: with people getting scholarships of all ranges in the mail now with their admissions packets, should those of us who got the packet and nothing else pretty much assume we're gonna be asked to pay sticker? I love UVA, but that's just not happening.

50%>GPA>25 %
LSAT>75%
And Va resident for what it's worth.

We have similar numbers, so I wouldn't count yourself out. Also, no shade on any of our resident Dillards, but I'm guessing a few of them (and lots of people initially offered less money as well) will end up going HYS. When that happens, other people will get offered $$. No matter what, if I were you, I'd wait to pull the trigger on a deposit until the day it's due. You might get a last minute offer that way.

Thanks, mind PMing me your numbers?

[20170322]

Submitting the 1000 for a seat deposit hurt, but I'm glad I did it.

[tylergreenandgold]

If anyone is looking for a roommate for the fall, pm me. I found a nice two bedroom that I'd like to put a down payment on.

[notsolawful]

Does everyone get to interview? Or do some people get denied or waitlisted without it?

[UVA2B]

Popping my head in to say hi and good luck in everyone's decision! If you have any questions from a current student (beyond the official Ask UVA thread), we are around! I'd be happy to give you insight whenever and wherever I can about life on the streets of Cville.

[proteinshake]

Popping my head in to say hi and good luck in everyone's decision! If you have any questions from a current student (beyond the official Ask UVA thread), we are around! I'd be happy to give you insight whenever and wherever I can about life on the streets of Cville.

how would you compare Duke vs UVA when it comes to DC big law placement?

[UVA2B]

Popping my head in to say hi and good luck in everyone's decision! If you have any questions from a current student (beyond the official Ask UVA thread), we are around! I'd be happy to give you insight whenever and wherever I can about life on the streets of Cville.

how would you compare Duke vs UVA when it comes to DC big law placement?

Well, the most factual response is obviously both employment reports. Looking at them, I would say both have similar placement power in the DC legal market (generally ~20% seem to be going to DC for UVA, numbers dropping recently for Duke). I can't, in good conscience, claim UVA has a markedly better placement in DC simply because there are countless other factors that play into employment placement. [self-selection, market preference, etc.].

From an institutional perspective, I will say that UVA seems to have a DC-centric focus in the private sector IMHO. The entire application process and career counseling seems geared for DC initially while maintaining geographic flexibility because the interests are mostly varied among the student population.

If you're interested in straight data, here it is:

http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/career/stats.htm

https://law.duke.edu/career/employmentdata/

It'll likely come down to cost and your specific goals, but if you're picking between Duke and UVA for DC Biglaw, you'll likely come to conclusions that they have similar placement power in the DC market.

[Bob loblaw law blog]

Popping my head in to say hi and good luck in everyone's decision! If you have any questions from a current student (beyond the official Ask UVA thread), we are around! I'd be happy to give you insight whenever and wherever I can about life on the streets of Cville.

Would you say that UVA has a tendency to place people in transactional jobs and/or teach classes geared toward practicing transactional law? A friend of mine that has friends at many of the T14s told me that if I wanted to do litigation (I do) UVA would be a bad place to go because it "prepares you almost exclusively for transactional law." I guess thats believable at any school that sends so many to biglaw jobs, but it seems a bit far-fetched that UVA would be so zeroed in on it as to make going there in the hopes of doing litigation irrational.

[ac8876a]

Popping my head in to say hi and good luck in everyone's decision! If you have any questions from a current student (beyond the official Ask UVA thread), we are around! I'd be happy to give you insight whenever and wherever I can about life on the streets of Cville.

How diverse would you say uva is? Charlotesville?

[curry1]

Popping my head in to say hi and good luck in everyone's decision! If you have any questions from a current student (beyond the official Ask UVA thread), we are around! I'd be happy to give you insight whenever and wherever I can about life on the streets of Cville.

Would you say that UVA has a tendency to place people in transactional jobs and/or teach classes geared toward practicing transactional law? A friend of mine that has friends at many of the T14s told me that if I wanted to do litigation (I do) UVA would be a bad place to go because it "prepares you almost exclusively for transactional law." I guess thats believable at any school that sends so many to biglaw jobs, but it seems a bit far-fetched that UVA would be so zeroed in on it as to make going there in the hopes of doing litigation irrational.

That generalization seems off to me, because UVA has the highest clerkship placement outside of HYS + Chicago, and clerkships tend be pursued by aspiring litigators.

[UVA2B]

Popping my head in to say hi and good luck in everyone's decision! If you have any questions from a current student (beyond the official Ask UVA thread), we are around! I'd be happy to give you insight whenever and wherever I can about life on the streets of Cville.

Would you say that UVA has a tendency to place people in transactional jobs and/or teach classes geared toward practicing transactional law? A friend of mine that has friends at many of the T14s told me that if I wanted to do litigation (I do) UVA would be a bad place to go because it "prepares you almost exclusively for transactional law." I guess thats believable at any school that sends so many to biglaw jobs, but it seems a bit far-fetched that UVA would be so zeroed in on it as to make going there in the hopes of doing litigation irrational.

In short, no. UVA offers plenty of substantive course work in both litigation and transactionally-geared topics. In fact, the faculty is currently looking at ways to beef up even further the law and business program. Within that, it should be remembered that what you study will likely do very little to get you into a given practice area. That firm will be hiring you based off performance in doctrinal course work with a tiny smattering of your own choices.

Also important to remember in lit/transactional prospects, it's somewhat firm dependent. Some firms won't even allow you to specialize in your first two years of practice. Every impression I get from both the institution and my friends going into transactional work that wanted it is that if you want transactional, you can absolutely get it.

The only way I see even the possibility of some anti-transactional sentiment would be in geographic placement relative to other T14, and even that is tenuous at best. UVA places a relatively small portion of its class in NYC compared to some of its peers, but even that fails the eye test because there is transactional work done in all of the major legal markets.

All of that being said, like all of the T14 in general, one doesn't provide an appreciable advantage/disadvantage in a practice area over another.

You will likely have much bigger determining factors in deciding between UVA and another peer institution.

Edit: I'm dumb and responded to the exact opposite question, but the same advice still applies. If you want lit, you can get it, and your choice of law school should not be predicated on your practice area desired.

[UVA2B]

Popping my head in to say hi and good luck in everyone's decision! If you have any questions from a current student (beyond the official Ask UVA thread), we are around! I'd be happy to give you insight whenever and wherever I can about life on the streets of Cville.

How diverse would you say uva is? Charlotesville?

My answer exists in two parts: the university community and the Cville community at large.

The university (and more specifically the law school since its mostly separate from the main grounds) has all the diversity programs and support you'd likely want. The law school stands firmly behind all the major affinity groups and has a very actively involved diverse population. I can't speak to its diversity relative to other T14, but all of my friends who identify as diverse in one way or another are generally very happy with the school and student body's approach to diverse populations.

For the greater Cville community, I would say the population is mostly a product of the greater university culture, so the community is pretty accepting of diversity groups, but Cville is also in the heart of VA hill country, so the community is mostly smaller than you'd get in a more major metropolitan university. I don't know anyone that feels at all unwelcome in the community, but there are noticeably smaller communities for some diversity groups (thinking primarily LGBTQ in this sense).

I don't think you'll feel your presence at UVA anything other than entirely welcomed and accepting, but if you're looking for robust community involvement in your given affinity group, you might find it more to your liking in a major metropolitan area.

[Keilz]

Quick question:

I know there was some discussion on listing your activities and interests, but no matter what I do, it looks like one big blob in the preview application section! I ended up just putting my 4 activities into 4 separate paragraphs and each sentence was a bullet point from my resume but without any bullet point. However, it's just one long paragraph in the preview. Is this similar to what everyone else's was like? Can they even read this easily?

[potterotter]

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[Keilz]

Quick question:

I know there was some discussion on listing your activities and interests, but no matter what I do, it looks like one big blob in the preview application section! I ended up just putting my 4 activities into 4 separate paragraphs and each sentence was a bullet point from my resume but without any bullet point. However, it's just one long paragraph in the preview. Is this similar to what everyone else's was like? Can they even read this easily?

I just went back and checked mine and its just one big blob for me too (just one long, continuous paragraph). Im not sure how easy it is for them to read it but I was admitted, so I don't think its an issue.

Ok thanks! Did you list your activities in a similar manner? I'm doing like "1) title at organization from year to year in location. job duty x. job duty y." etc.

[asuddenarborealstop]

Quick question:

I know there was some discussion on listing your activities and interests, but no matter what I do, it looks like one big blob in the preview application section! I ended up just putting my 4 activities into 4 separate paragraphs and each sentence was a bullet point from my resume but without any bullet point. However, it's just one long paragraph in the preview. Is this similar to what everyone else's was like? Can they even read this easily?

I used all caps for the "header" for each activity, followed by a short description. It still looked like one big block, but there was at least some way to break it up visually.

[Keilz]

Quick question:

I know there was some discussion on listing your activities and interests, but no matter what I do, it looks like one big blob in the preview application section! I ended up just putting my 4 activities into 4 separate paragraphs and each sentence was a bullet point from my resume but without any bullet point. However, it's just one long paragraph in the preview. Is this similar to what everyone else's was like? Can they even read this easily?

I used all caps for the "header" for each activity, followed by a short description. It still looked like one big block, but there was at least some way to break it up visually.

Great idea!

[j0elanz]

Received an invitation from Dean Faulk to attend a dinner with him and Grace Cleveland in a "very small gathering" in NYC. Anyone else going?! So thrilled to be included!

I was also invited to this dinner and will be attending on the November 30th night. Anyone have any more information about this or get an invite? For context, I was admitted back in September the day after I interviewed. Received a large informational packet with no mention of scholarship, but hopeful that something will come later.