Florida State c/o 2016 (2012-2013) cycle Forum

[havanese11]

Got my first acceptance yesterday! They called and then sent an email. I'm an out of state student but I will be considering it

[elterrible78]

Got my first acceptance yesterday! They called and then sent an email. I'm an out of state student but I will be considering it

Congrats!

[Mdenis1]

Congrats! I am out of state as well but haven't gotten a response yet. Would you mind sharing with us your numbers and when you applied? Congrats again

[jstacks]

Same here--got a call yesterday and an email confirming acceptance. I'm out-of-state as well, but they told me right on the phone the scholarship amount they were offering me.
LSAT: 162
LSAC GPA: 4.0

[2012Lsatscore]

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[jstacks]

Checking in

How do you go about getting a fee waiver? I asked for a book hoping they would send it with the book.

GPA: LSAC-3.69 Degree-3.76
LSAT: 162 (waiting on Oct retake)

If I don't get a fee waiver and my score goes up 164+ I might have to drop this app due to low funds.

I emailed them and asked for a fee waiver (I gave them my GPA, LSAT score, and LSAC account number). They emailed me back within a few days with a fee waiver code.

[havanese11]

Congrats! I am out of state as well but haven't gotten a response yet. Would you mind sharing with us your numbers and when you applied? Congrats again

LSAT: 162
GPA: 3.6
I sent my application the same week they started accepting applications.
I was surprised by the acceptance since they hadn't received both of my LOR's yet and I felt like I may have cut too much to meet their 500 word limit in the personal statement. Maybe they just base it off numbers and not soft factors??? IDK Just happy to have been accepted

[2012Lsatscore]

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[havanese11]

Congrats! I am out of state as well but haven't gotten a response yet. Would you mind sharing with us your numbers and when you applied? Congrats again

LSAT: 162
GPA: 3.6
I sent my application the same week they started accepting applications.
I was surprised by the acceptance since they hadn't received both of my LOR's yet and I felt like I may have cut too much to meet their 500 word limit in the personal statement. Maybe they just base it off numbers and not soft factors??? IDK Just happy to have been accepted

Our numbers are really close. Any scholarship info?

Not yet. Last year's thread said that admitted students had to apply for either merit based or need based scholarships after they were accepted. I guess the scholarship application usually came in the mail with the acceptance packet. I noticed one poster above said he was offered a scholarship already with the phone call so they may have changed the process from last year. I have not spoken with anyone on the phone yet since I was working when they called and left the voice-mail that I was accepted. The message they left did not say anything about scholarships.
I do know that they give in-state tuition after the first year, which makes it much more attractive to me than some of the similarly ranked private schools I applied to. I think it is ~40k the first year and then ~20k the last two years.

[jstacks]

Congrats! I am out of state as well but haven't gotten a response yet. Would you mind sharing with us your numbers and when you applied? Congrats again

LSAT: 162
GPA: 3.6
I sent my application the same week they started accepting applications.
I was surprised by the acceptance since they hadn't received both of my LOR's yet and I felt like I may have cut too much to meet their 500 word limit in the personal statement. Maybe they just base it off numbers and not soft factors??? IDK Just happy to have been accepted

Our numbers are really close. Any scholarship info?

Not yet. Last year's thread said that admitted students had to apply for either merit based or need based scholarships after they were accepted. I guess the scholarship application usually came in the mail with the acceptance packet. I noticed one poster above said he was offered a scholarship already with the phone call so they may have changed the process from last year. I have not spoken with anyone on the phone yet since I was working when they called and left the voice-mail that I was accepted. The message they left did not say anything about scholarships.
I do know that they give in-state tuition after the first year, which makes it much more attractive to me than some of the similarly ranked private schools I applied to. I think it is ~40k the first year and then ~20k the last two years.

Just to clarify on the scholarship question--I did not fill out a separate application for scholarships. When they called me to tell me I was accepted, they told me the amount of my scholarship award; when I received my acceptance packet in the mail, there was a letter included about my scholarship (amount, terms, etc).

[slawww]

Anyone hear any news lately? I've been complete for about 2 months, they just got my new LSAT score. I'm hoping to get a decision soon.

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[patricksouthern]

Just got a call from Florida State to tell me I've been accepted. Unfortunately, my phone didn't ring (awful service at my house sometimes) but the voicemail didn't include any information about scholarships and said I would receive correspondence via email/snail mail that would include "potential scholarship opportunities." Sounds like another application.

[scottyc66]

What're your LSAT and GPA, if you don't mind me asking, Patrick

[patricksouthern]

What're your LSAT and GPA, if you don't mind me asking, Patrick

LSAT: 168; GPA: 2.8

Have a GPA addendum, but not sure how much that matters.

[North]

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[seancris]

Checking in, dudes. I'm an Florida State alum and still live in Tallahassee, so I'll post pictures of the law school soon.

Thanks, would appreciate that. Never been to FSU law and would like to see the campus.

[North]

Thanks, would appreciate that. Never been to FSU law and would like to see the campus.

Yeah I'll do it soon. Fair warning: the law campus is 40% beautiful Jeffersonian Plantation-style architecture and 60% ugly, 1960's, form-follows-function awfulness. Classrooms are largely nice though. I'll be sure to cover both.

[slawww]

I've been complete for about 2 months with no movement. I'm getting anxious. LSAT is above median, GPA sucks.

[Ruxin1]

I've been complete for about 2 months with no movement. I'm getting anxious. LSAT is above median, GPA sucks.

With such a small class size they are probably just feeling out who all is going to apply, GL!

[slawww]

I've been complete for about 2 months with no movement. I'm getting anxious. LSAT is above median, GPA sucks.

With such a small class size they are probably just feeling out who all is going to apply, GL!

Thanks! Somewhat eases the nerves, haha

[North]

Florida State University College of Law


Here's a view of the rotunda from across the field. Seven or eight small plantation-style houses are behind the trees and stand to the right and left of the rotunda, extending towards the camera's point of view. This is the picture they put on pamphlets.



Here is a shot of a couple of those plantation houses. Various administrative and Law Journals offices are housed inside them.



This is the view of the Court of Appeals Courthouse that FSU recently bought from right outside the rotunda.



This is the inside of the rotunda. This is usually where guest lectures, fancy luncheons, that sort of thing, are held. You can see out to the plantation area from the windowed doors behind this pictures point of view.



This is the door to one of the plantation houses. Not sure why I took this picture. I guess I thought it was important for everyone to see that the career development office does, in fact, exist.



This is where you'll actually spend most of your time. Lecture halls and classrooms are in here.



This is the head-on view of the big lecture hall in the B.K. building.



Side view of the same lecture hall.



This is a little courtyard kind of thing outside of the B.K. building. I see people studying out here when it's warmer. That's the outside of the law library in the background.



This is the cafeteria. There were some nice leather chairs in the back that the panoramic shot didn't pick up.



This is one of the smaller classrooms.



This is the part of the law library where the carrels are. I couldn't get inside, so I took a picture through the window.

[2012Lsatscore]

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[SpecterHewes&Mccoy]

Admission letter came today.

"In the coming weeks the Office of Student Affairs will e-mail you information related to financial aid and scholarships for which you may be eligible to apply."

$200 seat deposit by April 15

Is that unusually early for a seat deposit? Kinda bummed there was no scholarship included.

When i contacted admissions about possible scholarships i was directed to fill out a spereate application for several scholarships online. Might try reaching out to them

[Spritzpiggy]

This thread makes me happy. I love you FSU! And please beat the Gators this weekend If anyone has questions about Tallahassee or FSU in general feel free to message me. Best of luck!