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What were your biggest surprises (both acceptances and rejections/waitlists)? Please include your stats

I'll start
170/sub 2.6

Accepted: UMN
Waitlisted: GW (thought I would be a rejection), Syracuse (thought I would get in for sure-this was my safety school)
Rejected: UPitt (thought I would get in-I go to school near Pitt)

My cycle has played out EXACTLY as it would in relation to medians with not 1 deviation. I doubt there will be many surprises, admissions in the states is as predictable as whose going to have the highest payroll in baseball.

160, 3.0

Surprise Acceptance:
FSU-- OOS, non-URM

Surprise Non-Acceptance:
UTK waitlist-- In-state. Looking at the medians, it shouldn't be much of a surprise, but after getting into FSU (OOS, higher ranking, higher admissions standards), I was kind of expecting to get in.

Dinged from BC with 3.7/169

Obviously my biggest surprise was getting flat-out rejected by UW, since my entire cycle was geared around getting in to UW. The whole reason that I took an extra year and retook the LSAT and scored a 175 was to boost my chance of getting in to UW. And then, in the end, I didn't.

Denied at GSU.

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Adjudicator wrote:Obviously my biggest surprise was getting flat-out rejected by UW, since my entire cycle was geared around getting in to UW. The whole reason that I took an extra year and retook the LSAT and scored a 175 was to boost my chance of getting in to UW. And then, in the end, I didn't.

WL at Penn with a 157/3.95 (thought it would be an outright rejection).

I am white/Cuban, so a little semi-URM action is going on there I guess.

Adjudicator wrote:Obviously my biggest surprise was getting flat-out rejected by UW, since my entire cycle was geared around getting in to UW. The whole reason that I took an extra year and retook the LSAT and scored a 175 was to boost my chance of getting in to UW. And then, in the end, I didn't.

Sorry to hear that.. They really seem to be pretty crazy about GPAs.. I got dinged there too last year. Had a much lower LSAT, but I think it was still at their median or close to it, and I had a 3.5 UGPA. With your numbers I bet you'll get at least one T14 though no?

WL @ BU. 171/4.0

Lawquacious wrote:

Adjudicator wrote:Obviously my biggest surprise was getting flat-out rejected by UW, since my entire cycle was geared around getting in to UW. The whole reason that I took an extra year and retook the LSAT and scored a 175 was to boost my chance of getting in to UW. And then, in the end, I didn't.

Sorry to hear that.. They really seem to be pretty crazy about GPAs.. I got dinged there too last year. Had a much lower LSAT, but I think it was still at their median or close to it, and I had a 3.5 UGPA. With your numbers I bet you'll get at least one T14 though no?

Nope, I didn't... the only schools I was accepted to at all this cycle were WUSTL and Seattle U. Got dinged by UVA and Northwestern, and still haven't heard from Columbia; they probably saw my application and just laughed and tossed it, figuring it was a joke.

Maybe I should have applied to more schools, but I thought I had a good group already. Hindsight, I guess.

168 / ~3.4 Cuban American

106k @ GW

WL at every school I was a strong consider and consider. No response from a school I was admit at over two months after applying.

WL UIUC w/ 3.49/173. Other then that cycle was predictable, nothing surprisingly good or bad.

My ED acceptance to Penn and my YP rejection from George Mason (166/3.94).

151/3.91

RD acceptance to Houston FT.

3.6/166 URM

Biggest Surprises:

Waitlisted at Chicago
Rejected to George Washington
Pending (after 4 months) at Harvard -- I assumed I would get an immediate rejection...

L.OL/retake

Not a single restraining order filed against me by a school.

Biggest surprise: Getting In at Georgetown with a 161 and just over a 4.0.

Smaller surprise: Getting into Emory with money.

Also, surprised that UPenn actually decided to put me under committee review without denying me flat out! The rejection should come any day now...

WL at UVA. OOS, 165, 3.3. Thought I was an auto-ding.

172 / 3.63

Accepted at Columbia
Rejected at Michigan

Happy, but confused.