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For those languishing on waitlists they are almost sure never to be accepted from. Share your thoughts, and pain.



Damn you Chicago!

Edit: I thought it might be appropriate to link to the bitter pessimism thread.
http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... =7&t=98250

i think i will soon be spending all of my time on this thread.

edit: praying for the waitlist at UCLA, USC, and georgetown. i hope they will show me the cruellest kind of mercy

I think I may be joining you. Meanwhile I still have 22 decisions to wait for.

Notre Dame, I love you and you show me no love back. You're letter of "we want you, just not that much" puts a dagger through my heart, but I still pursue you, almost like a stalker.

Hmm, I thought this fell under the USS: Bitter Pessimism (are there optimists on this site?) topic. I will be here very soon though, and it will suck. Good luck to everyone else.

booboo wrote:Hmm, I thought this fell under the USS: Bitter Pessimism (are there optimists on this site?) topic. I will be here very soon though, and it will suck. Good luck to everyone else.

It's not pessimism if there's a chance for redemption (I'm an optimist!)

about two weeks ago law school ABC sent me an admitted letter welcoming me The letter was to a URM male, I am a nonURM. .

A week later, i got the real letter, waitlisted.

Definitely feel a lot of waitlists coming... *sigh*

robin600 wrote:

booboo wrote:Hmm, I thought this fell under the USS: Bitter Pessimism (are there optimists on this site?) topic. I will be here very soon though, and it will suck. Good luck to everyone else.

It's not pessimism if there's a chance for redemption (I'm an optimist!)

There is one! Great!

bananasinpajamas wrote:about two weeks ago law school ABC sent me an admitted letter welcoming me The letter was to a URM male, I am a nonURM. .

A week later, i got the real letter, waitlisted.

This... just plain sucks. Join us at USS: Bitter Pessimism.

Anyone signing up for the Feb LSAT? It's the only tried and true way to be proactive about getting of a waitlist. Padding medians/75%s makes you much more attractive.

LOCIs and the like just let them know you're interested and if they have a student who fits a similar profile to you who withdraws then you MIGHT be in. I don't like those odds.

UVA. Now that they're actively recruiting more candidates with ED, I feel like my waitlist to accept chances are about nil.

holydonkey wrote:UVA. Now that they're actively recruiting more candidates with ED, I feel like my waitlist to accept chances are about nil.

What's your LSAT? Hit a 171 in Feb/June and I bet you'll get in

hopefulundergrad wrote:Anyone signing up for the Feb LSAT? It's the only tried and true way to be proactive about getting of a waitlist. Padding medians/75%s makes you much more attractive.

LOCIs and the like just let them know you're interested and if they have a student who fits a similar profile to you who withdraws then you MIGHT be in. I don't like those odds.

Yeah, I'm not optimistic. Thought hard about taking the Feb LSAT, but a.) I'm abroad and there's not one in my city so I'd have to travel a little, and b.) I really don't think I could put myself through that again. Just gonna treat my UVA and Penn WL's like rejections, especially since I've already graduated and I'm going to be at the same job till I start law school, so there's not much new that I can tell them.

parker09 wrote:

hopefulundergrad wrote:Anyone signing up for the Feb LSAT? It's the only tried and true way to be proactive about getting of a waitlist. Padding medians/75%s makes you much more attractive.

LOCIs and the like just let them know you're interested and if they have a student who fits a similar profile to you who withdraws then you MIGHT be in. I don't like those odds.

Yeah, I'm not optimistic. Thought hard about taking the Feb LSAT, but a.) I'm abroad and there's not one in my city so I'd have to travel a little, and b.) I really don't think I could put myself through that again. Just gonna treat my UVA and Penn WL's like rejections, especially since I've already graduated and I'm going to be at the same job till I start law school, so there's not much new that I can tell them.

Yeah, for all my preaching, I don't think a 3rd LSAT is in my future. Too much stress. I'm already above 75%s at MVPB and above/at medians at CCN.

Can held/deferred people hang out in here?

Lurkster wrote:Can held/deferred people hang out in here?

Yeah!! Come pointlessly speculate with us!

hopefulundergrad wrote:

Lurkster wrote:Can held/deferred people hang out in here?

Yeah!! Come pointlessly speculate with us!

cool!

I'm deferred at:

Michigan
Cornell
Boston College

all have received New Year LOCIs

Veritas wrote:

hopefulundergrad wrote:

Lurkster wrote:Can held/deferred people hang out in here?

Yeah!! Come pointlessly speculate with us!

cool!

I'm deferred at:

Michigan
Cornell
Boston College

all have received New Year LOCIs

Did you ED Michigan?

boo_pragmatism wrote:Held at Duke, waitlisted at University of Chicago. Let the suffering begin.

Held at Duke with your numbers? What's their median GPA? When did you apply?

I'm sitting at 11/9 UR. Not expecting much.

I haven't been yet ... but they're coming! At least, I hope they're coming, without a few WLs it's going to be A LOT of rejections.

i love this thread... we're not bonding through pessimism, but bitter suffering mixed with earnest hope

I'll probably be in here in the next week or so. :/ Thanks, Vandy, and your apparently predictable mailing schedule.

hopefulundergrad wrote:

Veritas wrote:

hopefulundergrad wrote:

Lurkster wrote:Can held/deferred people hang out in here?

Yeah!! Come pointlessly speculate with us!

cool!

I'm deferred at:

Michigan
Cornell
Boston College

all have received New Year LOCIs

Did you ED Michigan?

Yes, I was ED at Michigan. I don't really know what to expect, probably a ding.

Veritas wrote:

hopefulundergrad wrote:

Lurkster wrote:Can held/deferred people hang out in here?

Yeah!! Come pointlessly speculate with us!

cool!

I'm deferred at:

Michigan
Cornell
Boston College

all have received New Year LOCIs

So when you do a LOCI to a deferring school, what do you say? Anything different from one you'd send if you're WL?

mayosmith wrote:

Veritas wrote:

hopefulundergrad wrote:

Lurkster wrote:Can held/deferred people hang out in here?

Yeah!! Come pointlessly speculate with us!

cool!

I'm deferred at:

Michigan
Cornell
Boston College

all have received New Year LOCIs

So when you do a LOCI to a deferring school, what do you say? Anything different from one you'd send if you're WL?

I just reiterated my interest and tried to touch on different things that what I elaborated on in my "Why?" essays.

Like, for Michigan, my essay was mostly about the academic opportunities, so I used the LOCI to focus on the town/Michigan community and experience.

But essentially, I'm treating it like I would a WL.