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I was interested to hear if any of you have been/were accepted into a school(s) that you really didn't think you had a chance of getting into.

Maybe you applied just in case?

And you were ACCEPTED.

Please list any/all of this and the circumstances around it.

Really looking to motivate myself/others regarding schools we don't feel we have a solid chance with, but "may" apply to. (SRS)

in before thread goes bad

Yup. Lots of times.

Yup, GW.

Reverse-splitter. However I will not be attending because I was so sure I wasn't getting in that I hadn't thought about paying for it at sticker.

insertclevernamehere wrote:Yup, GW.

Reverse-splitter. However I will not be attending because I was so sure I wasn't getting in that I hadn't thought about paying for it at sticker.

Were your LSAT/GPA well below the median, or...?

LSATfromNC wrote:in before thread goes bad

How could that possibly happen?

no.

ITT: please give me false hope

Even if you have a low gpa and lsat, if the school sends you a fee waiver, you actually have a decent shot! Good luck!

NayBoer wrote:ITT: please give me false hope

ITT: Unique Fucking Snowflakes.

holydonkey wrote:Even if you have a low gpa and lsat, if the school sends you a fee waiver, you actually have a decent shot! Good luck!

LOL, not aware of Fee Waivers-not in the application process yet. (srs)

Do you apply for fee waivers?

Also, the thread Title now reads "little chance" instead of "0% chance"

Also, I appreciate the time you took to make that gif. Made me LOL-

TOMaHULK wrote:

holydonkey wrote:Even if you have a low gpa and lsat, if the school sends you a fee waiver, you actually have a decent shot! Good luck!

LOL, not aware of Fee Waivers-not in the application process yet. (srs)

Do you apply for fee waivers?

Also, the thread Title now reads "little chance" instead of "0% chance"

you went back and edited the title without changing the second "u"?

booyakasha45 wrote:

TOMaHULK wrote:

holydonkey wrote:Even if you have a low gpa and lsat, if the school sends you a fee waiver, you actually have a decent shot! Good luck!

LOL, not aware of Fee Waivers-not in the application process yet. (srs)

Do you apply for fee waivers?

Also, the thread Title now reads "little chance" instead of "0% chance"

you went back and edited the title without changing the second "u"?

Won't fit man. Feelsbadman.jpg

Yeah, I didn't realize that W&L and GMU are so splitter-friendly. I only applied because they each gave me a fee waiver.

Yeah, I got into U. Chicago even though I thought I had pretty much no chance of getting in, and only applied since I got a fee waiver.

dakatz wrote:Yeah, I got into U. Chicago even though I thought I had pretty much no chance of getting in, and only applied since I got a fee waiver.

So are fee waivers something that schools send you when you they are interested in you, or do you apply for them to save money on applications to school on the LSAC site? Srs question, not in the app process yet so would appreciate any info or link to a valuable fee waiver thread.

mountaintime wrote:Yeah, I didn't realize that W&L and GMU are so splitter-friendly. I only applied because they each gave me a fee waiver.

Splitter friendly?

Please excuse my lack of knowledge. Not a tenured TLS person yet.

Accepted to UCLA with a 3.5 GPA. Was very surprised.

TOMaHULK wrote:

mountaintime wrote:Yeah, I didn't realize that W&L and GMU are so splitter-friendly. I only applied because they each gave me a fee waiver.

Splitter friendly?

Please excuse my lack of knowledge. Not a tenured TLS person yet.

A splitter is someone whose LSAT is above a schools 75th percentile but whose GPA is below their 25th. A reverse splitter is the opposite.

d34dluk3 wrote:

TOMaHULK wrote:

mountaintime wrote:Yeah, I didn't realize that W&L and GMU are so splitter-friendly. I only applied because they each gave me a fee waiver.

Splitter friendly?

Please excuse my lack of knowledge. Not a tenured TLS person yet.

A splitter is someone whose LSAT is above a schools 75th percentile but whose GPA is below their 25th. A reverse splitter is the opposite.

Oh, makes sense. Splitter is LSAT 75th and GPA >25th. Reverse is reverse. A lot of threads are making a low more sense to me now.

How about the word ED

holydonkey wrote:

That's funny.

So did you get in to either, or is this just a scenerio based on the fact that the 2 LSAT scores were different?

TOMaHULK wrote:

dakatz wrote:Yeah, I got into U. Chicago even though I thought I had pretty much no chance of getting in, and only applied since I got a fee waiver.

So are fee waivers something that schools send you when you they are interested in you, or do you apply for them to save money on applications to school on the LSAC site? Srs question, not in the app process yet so would appreciate any info or link to a valuable fee waiver thread.

Darling, I hate to tell you this, but fee waivers exist to boost a school's ranking. It doesn't mean that they are any more likely to accept you. You see, for every applicant that they deny, their selectivity is higher. Selectivity is one of the things in the formula used in the US News rankings.

TOMaHULK wrote:How about the word ED

This stands for Early Decision, which is a commitment, generally binding, to enroll at a school should they accept you. The benefit of it is that it makes you much more likely to be accepted since the school knows you won't turn them down.

d34dluk3 wrote:

TOMaHULK wrote:How about the word ED

This stands for Early Decision, which is a commitment, generally binding, to enroll at a school should they accept you. The benefit of it is that it makes you much more likely to be accepted since the school knows you won't turn them down.

and will pay sticker price.