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Hey everyone,

I didn't see a topic for this yet. I wanted to create a place for commiseration/celebration/sharing, and I also wanted to be special and make a new topic.

So how many of us are going to wait it out? Is anyone sending in a new LOR or retaking the LSAT?

Word.

I plan to wait it out. Maybe to the end. I don't know about another LOR, I already sent 4. I'll probably send a LoCI when I graduate to talk about the various honors/grades. Maybe work on curing cancer in the week between finals and graduation. I don't think I'll retake the LSAT.

Checking in. Going to ride out the WL until the bitter end.

I don't know about submitting new LoR. I've been out of school for a couple of years, so I'm not sure if I even have a professor who could write a meaningful one. I already sent a LOCI (since I was a soft hold), so I don't know if I'll send another one. Maybe I'll just email in a short update to reiterate my interest/ let Dean Deal know what I've been up to.

Fingers crossed that there is significant wait list movement this year!

I'm going to send in a LOCI since I have a lot that's happened to me recently. I'm also thinking another LOR. I only sent in three originally, and there are two professors who would have good, and new, things to say about me in a letter.

Other than that, I'm just going to ride till the end and hope my patience pays off.

amc987 wrote:Fingers crossed that there is significant wait list movement this year!

Agreed! I hope that we start to see movement in the next few weeks after the deposit deadline.

Checking in. Just got waitlisted today!

Checking in as well. Pretty honored to be on this waitlist.

edit: also, pretty sure I'm gonna ride it at least for a while.

I'm stoked to even be on the waitlist! Sent a LOCI and planning to send final transcripts et al. after graduation.

Gonna send in the WL form. Might as well ride it out, can't hurt. I guess I should probably start working on my LOCI...

Just called in and found out the DLS was a WL, any ideas about the overall percent of WL -> admit from last year?

ScratchableItch wrote:I'm going to send in a LOCI since I have a lot that's happened to me recently.

Have you not sent in any LOCIs so far before this?

Checking in. Honored to be on the WL! I am still trying to decide whether to ride it out.. so confusing! I should probably send a LOCI though honestly, I don't have much of anything new to add...

jim-green wrote:

ScratchableItch wrote:I'm going to send in a LOCI since I have a lot that's happened to me recently.

Have you not sent in any LOCIs so far before this?

I sent one to Harvard, not to Stanford. Since I applied in October I have essentially two semesters worth of updates.

withdrew today! hope someone cool gets my spot.

I'm on the Waitlist too
Definitely sticking on it til they kick me off

Checking in! Definitely did not expect to be waitlisted after waiting to hear since October.

thereshegoes wrote:withdrew today! hope someone cool gets my spot.

We love you.

Withdrew as well. Good luck!

I am trying to locate the post that said that all the people who got accepted had a common strong theme connecting their apps. Is that post in the original Stanford thread? I could not find the post, but was wondering why the person said that. Because the Yale dean's blog said you should not be a one trick pony, but have many aspects. For SLS, should all parts of the app point to one interest?

jim-green wrote:I am trying to locate the post that said that all the people who got accepted had a common strong theme connecting their apps. Is that post in the original Stanford thread? I could not find the post, but was wondering why the person said that. Because the Yale dean's blog said you should not be a one trick pony, but have many aspects. For SLS, should all parts of the app point to one interest?

I think you're referring to one of Dean Deal's blog posts, perhaps this one (http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/admission ... questions/), but I'm not entirely sure. I don't think she meant that you should hone in on one particular interest or goal and make that the focus of your application, but rather that your application should give a full sense of who you are, what you've done, and why you want to go to law school.

yankees42789 wrote:

jim-green wrote:I am trying to locate the post that said that all the people who got accepted had a common strong theme connecting their apps. Is that post in the original Stanford thread? I could not find the post, but was wondering why the person said that. Because the Yale dean's blog said you should not be a one trick pony, but have many aspects. For SLS, should all parts of the app point to one interest?

I think you're referring to one of Dean Deal's blog posts, perhaps this one (http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/admission ... questions/), but I'm not entirely sure. I don't think she meant that you should hone in on one particular interest or goal and make that the focus of your application, but rather that your application should give a full sense of who you are, what you've done, and why you want to go to law school.

Thanks. A poster on TLS said 3-4 days ago in one of the SLS threads that all the friends she knew who got into SLS this cycle have a common theme running through their apps. That was the post I was asking about and what that TLS poster said that, but this post of Dean Deal's above really helps!

Just got the DLS/WL decision. And I'm riding it out so to everyone that is withdrawing, you have my personal and very heartfelt thank you!

Dumb question... Can you e-mail a LOCI or does it need to be snail mailed?

Riding this one out till the bitter end.

Honestly shocked I wasn't outright rejected.

Hey everyone. Wanted to say hello and good luck. I got the WL two or three weeks ago. Waiting this out because I would probably go up until the first day of classes starting. A homeless SLS student doesn't sound too bad at all really.

hellothisisme wrote:Dumb question... Can you e-mail a LOCI or does it need to be snail mailed?

Riding this one out till the bitter end.

Honestly shocked I wasn't outright rejected.

I sent one by email a while before being wait listed, and they emailed a response saying that they added it to my file.