GW c/o 2015 Applicants (2011-2012 cycle) Forum

[Blumpbeef]

Did you get a handwritten letter? Mine had a personal note that referenced what they found attractive about me.

The truth though is that they admitted you because of your numbers.

[Lawbro]

Yeah I did, but I feel it pretty much congratulated me on my numbers. It was still nice though

[woodscommaL]

Did you get a handwritten letter? Mine had a personal note that referenced what they found attractive about me.

The truth though is that they admitted you because of your numbers.

All my note said was a messy "hope you join us next fall!" or something similarly generic. My app wasn't attractive enough to inspire personalization

[moxy]

Did you get a handwritten letter? Mine had a personal note that referenced what they found attractive about me.

The truth though is that they admitted you because of your numbers.

All my note said was a messy "hope you join us next fall!" or something similarly generic. My app wasn't attractive enough to inspire personalization

Haha + 1 .. Same here .. I would still like to think that I am special !

[ohcanada]

Has anyone received finical aid information yet?

[Litts787]

Is anyone else having trouble logging on the admitted students site?

[Blumpbeef]

Didn't even know there was one. I just signed up and logged in to it though.

[gatorapplicant]

Has anyone received finical aid information yet?

i got an email yesterday saying (in additional to info about admitted student weekend) that financial aid information is live on the admitted student portal. haven't checked it out yet.

[gatorapplicant]

Has anyone received finical aid information yet?

i got an email yesterday saying (in additional to info about admitted student weekend) that financial aid information is live on the admitted student portal. haven't checked it out yet.

should clarify, it said financial aid form. so i think it's need-based info

[camillefisch]

Waitlisted at GW. 167/3.8 Fantastic softs (I've worked with Domestic Violence and Muscular Dystrophy plus I know Chinese) All I want to respond with is WTF?

[msblaw89]

Waitlisted at GW. 167/3.8 Fantastic softs (I've worked with Domestic Violence and Muscular Dystrophy plus I know Chinese) All I want to respond with is WTF?

WOW! I think you should

[vicerealist]

Could it be because of rolling admissions and that they accepted a lot of earlier applicants? I'm wondering if that's what happened with me.

I have a bit of an odd situation with GW. I'm an Army paratrooper stationed in Italy and the logistics for the October LSAT fell through, so I took the December one out here. Got a 175. I have a Master's with a 3.91 GPA from Maryland's distance arm (UMUC), but my undergrad GPA at Florida State was lousy (2.66). It's been nearly 11 years since I graduated from FSU, though. I now speak Arabic, have been to Iraq/Afghanistan, etc etc.

Barely two weeks after I submitted my application, I got an e-mail saying I was waitlisted. I never got one saying the application was complete or under consideration, just that I was waitlisted, and that e-mail arrived 11 business days after I clicked 'submit' on the LSAC site. Props to GW for the fast turnaround! But something feels strange.

Living here in Italy means being a bit isolated from the law school process, but this still caught me by surprise. I applied to five other schools and only two have told me the application was complete and under consideration, more or less made a decision.

Anyone's thoughts are welcome - thanks!

[kcirdor01]

Could it be because of rolling admissions and that they accepted a lot of earlier applicants? I'm wondering if that's what happened with me.

I have a bit of an odd situation with GW. I'm an Army paratrooper stationed in Italy and the logistics for the October LSAT fell through, so I took the December one out here. Got a 175. I have a Master's with a 3.91 GPA from Maryland's distance arm (UMUC), but my undergrad GPA at Florida State was lousy (2.66). It's been nearly 11 years since I graduated from FSU, though. I now speak Arabic, have been to Iraq/Afghanistan, etc etc.

Barely two weeks after I submitted my application, I got an e-mail saying I was waitlisted. I never got one saying the application was complete or under consideration, just that I was waitlisted, and that e-mail arrived 11 business days after I clicked 'submit' on the LSAC site. Props to GW for the fast turnaround! But something feels strange.

Living here in Italy means being a bit isolated from the law school process, but this still caught me by surprise. I applied to five other schools and only two have told me the application was complete and under consideration, more or less made a decision.

Anyone's thoughts are welcome - thanks!

Most schools are very veiled with their review process. You're lucky you heard back from GW so quickly. Hopefully you get into a school of you liking; with you're LSAT score, I assume you will. I am surprised that GW WL'd you though; they seem to be splitter friendly (at least in years past).

[cjb0502]

Scholarship announcements are starting this month.

Any one else get the Public Interest Fellows email? LOL at using IBR to call LRAPs at other schools unimportant, but is that just the $4k summer funding/meeting with Dean Morrison? It didn't mention any scholarship in the email.

I got the email but I'm not interested in public interest

Thanks! I was wondering if it had been sent to all admits or just people who had expressed interest in PI (which I did).

How soon after your acceptance did you get the Public Interest Fellows email?

I was accepted on 2/3, and practically every page of my application stressed my interest in public interest. (Plus, the Dean's handwritten note said that she was impressed by my public interest experience). I did get the preview day email on 2/7, but nothing about Public Interest Fellows...

I didn't see any info on the admitted students site, or on the main site, other than the summer funding and 3L fellows program.

[jhw219]

Could it be because of rolling admissions and that they accepted a lot of earlier applicants? I'm wondering if that's what happened with me.

I have a bit of an odd situation with GW. I'm an Army paratrooper stationed in Italy and the logistics for the October LSAT fell through, so I took the December one out here. Got a 175. I have a Master's with a 3.91 GPA from Maryland's distance arm (UMUC), but my undergrad GPA at Florida State was lousy (2.66). It's been nearly 11 years since I graduated from FSU, though. I now speak Arabic, have been to Iraq/Afghanistan, etc etc.

Barely two weeks after I submitted my application, I got an e-mail saying I was waitlisted. I never got one saying the application was complete or under consideration, just that I was waitlisted, and that e-mail arrived 11 business days after I clicked 'submit' on the LSAC site. Props to GW for the fast turnaround! But something feels strange.

Living here in Italy means being a bit isolated from the law school process, but this still caught me by surprise. I applied to five other schools and only two have told me the application was complete and under consideration, more or less made a decision.

Anyone's thoughts are welcome - thanks!

I'm almost positive it's YP for you. Also, congrats on hearing back so fast. I've been sitting on a complete date of 11/10 like it's my job. Is anybody else in the same boat or even earlier?

[parebare23]

IN today via snail mail! Really nice touch by GW with a handwritten note! I am so excited - it was a reach - but anything is possible with God! Great start to the weekend!

[msblaw89]

IN today via snail mail! Really nice touch by GW with a handwritten note! I am so excited - it was a reach - but anything is possible with God! Great start to the weekend!

Go celebrate! Congrats!

[aeiouy]

Waitlisted

[Elric]

In via snail mail today

[hoos89]

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[vicerealist]

I'm almost positive it's YP for you. Also, congrats on hearing back so fast. I've been sitting on a complete date of 11/10 like it's my job. Is anybody else in the same boat or even earlier?

Looks like it was YP (a term which I had to Google). I told you I was isolated from the admission process. =] I got admitted to UVA today, less than three weeks after I applied. Apparently YP is a quite real phenomenon. I can understand it from a realpolitik point of view, but it still seem like manipulation of statistics over honest treatment of applicants. Does anyone really pay attention to such percentages? I wouldn't have applied to GW if I wasn't willing to go there, after all. But the timing and nature of the decision match perfectly with what is described as "yield protection."

[hoos89]

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[me!0712]

In via snail mail today

+1 Nice personal note too!

[Litts787]

Anyone know if they are willing to negotiate scholarships? I really want to go to GW but 60K and a significantly lower COL at WUSTL is going to be pretty hard to turn down.

[vicerealist]

Anyone know if they are willing to negotiate scholarships? I really want to go to GW but 60K and a significantly lower COL at WUSTL is going to be pretty hard to turn down.

Try to negotiate regardless of whether they usually do so. =] I'd tell them exactly what you wrote in your post - it's a nice, straightforward way to express it. If they say no, at least you tried. I'd be proactive about it and approach them as soon as possible.

acceptance rate is actually .025 of the usnwr rankings

That's an overly broad view. If a school in GW's position can prop up a statistic using YP with seemingly zero loss to themselves, it's a sound strategy in many ways. (I'd say there are losses, but they aren't as easily quantifiable.) Whether it's worth x% in some compiled formula or something less than x isn't their main concern. By waitlisting, they keep someone on the back burner in case they are still interested come late March, which is specifically when they said they'd check back in and request a status update.