Harvard Law School c/o 2019 Waitlist Forum

[oliverb]

Patient waiters, accept your fates - The "waves" have receded back into the seas.
My information, which I think is reliable, is that HLS enjoyed a
much higher yield than usual this admissions cycle. So there
will be little if any need to draw from the WL. While there may be an occasional
admit or two this summer there won't be any waves. Not happening. Whatever
is the fine law school at which you've deposited, start loving it now, because that's
most likely where you will be enrolled come September . Sorry, reality can suck, but that's where things stand.

[Bowman13]

I get it and I believe you are correct - just wish they would release us.

[woc]

Patient waiters, accept your fates - The "waves" have receded back into the seas.
My information, which I think is reliable, is that HLS enjoyed a
much higher yield than usual this admissions cycle. So there
will be little if any need to draw from the WL. While there may be an occasional
admit or two this summer there won't be any waves. Not happening. Whatever
is the fine law school at which you've deposited, start loving it now, because that's
most likely where you will be enrolled come September . Sorry, reality can suck, but that's where things stand.

lol ok..........

[kalifornia]

Patient waiters, accept your fates - The "waves" have receded back into the seas.
My information, which I think is reliable, is that HLS enjoyed a
much higher yield than usual this admissions cycle. So there
will be little if any need to draw from the WL. While there may be an occasional
admit or two this summer there won't be any waves. Not happening. Whatever
is the fine law school at which you've deposited, start loving it now, because that's
most likely where you will be enrolled come September . Sorry, reality can suck, but that's where things stand.

I'm not saying you are wrong, but it seems odd they would not release us if there is only going to be a trickle of admissions. I imagine they would have released the majority of people by now.

[theconsigliere]

I'm not saying you are wrong, but it seems odd they would not release us if there is only going to be a trickle of admissions. I imagine they would have released the majority of people by now.

They may have done that for all we know, although the poll suggests otherwise. That said, they might need to keep a lot of people for very few open spots since they probably need on their waitlist as many options as possible. e.g. a spot opens up and they have their medians set so they want to fill it with a female URM from North Dakota

[pittsburghpirates]

I'm not saying you are wrong, but it seems odd they would not release us if there is only going to be a trickle of admissions. I imagine they would have released the majority of people by now.

They may have done that for all we know, although the poll suggests otherwise. That said, they might need to keep a lot of people for very few open spots since they probably need on their waitlist as many options as possible. e.g. a spot opens up and they have their medians set so they want to fill it with a female URM from North Dakota

Think there is some truth to this. It doesn't cost them anything to keep people on the waitlist, so from their side of the fence why not keep a larger pool to pick from if a spot does open up.

That said, not sure anyone knows exactly what's in store but the summer is definitely getting shorter. But thankfully everyone who is on the waitlist likely has another great choice to end up in the fall as well

[berek]

Patient waiters, accept your fates - The "waves" have receded back into the seas.
...

DAE think this was gonna be, like, a poem? Disappointing that it was just a bunch of weird line breaks :/

[pangulo]

Patient waiters, accept your fates - The "waves" have receded back into the seas.
...

DAE think this was gonna be, like, a poem? Disappointing that it was just a bunch of weird line breaks :/

Hah, that's the thing that disappointed you about that post?

[lsat_hopeful]

I have a feeling we'll hear something today...

[kalifornia]

I have a feeling we'll hear something today...

Hopefully better news than what the United Kingdom just woke up to!

[trenhardeatclen]

Regarding past cycles, has there been JS1 requests sent out this late?

[ftge232]

sigh

anyone wanna speculate on further movement based on previous years?

[labergel]

sigh anyone wanna speculate on further movement based on previous years?

Regarding past cycles, has there been JS1 requests sent out this late?

Stage 1: Denial

P.S. I'm praying on movement too

[freakingoutlalala]

sighh. still checking this forum daily even though nothing happens ever on this year's waitlist

[bostonbred]

sighh. still checking this forum daily even though nothing happens ever on this year's waitlist

...

[ftge232]

Under what circumstances would more spots open up? Someone gets off another waitlist and chooses the other school over Harvard? Anything else?

[labergel]

Under what circumstances would more spots open up? Someone gets off another waitlist and chooses the other school over Harvard? Anything else?

That's the most likely option. Given that spots open at Yale and Stanford are also very slim, any trickle down would also be slim. With individual slots then needing to be filled, Harvard would look towards similar over slightly better candidates to match that need in the class. At this point, we are all probably competing for no more than three spots (if lucky).

It's definitely to late to assume that they are waiting to fill out a class size after deposits.

There is the possibility that one of the admissions officers has a life-altering near death experience with enough of a carthatic effect to make them pay forward their recent fortune. In that case we could all make it off the waitlist.

[labergel]

Dinged as of 11:55 AM. Cant say I didn't expect it coming with me getting no interview this whole time. At least I had time to process the sadness. Penn here I come!!

[theconsigliere]

In today. Interviewed yesterday

[trenhardeatclen]

In today. Interviewed yesterday

Wow, that's incredible! Congrats!

[lsat_hopeful]

In today. Interviewed yesterday

Congrats!

Do you mind sharing your stats? (Here or in a PM)

[lsat_hopeful]

Dinged as of 11:55 AM. Cant say I didn't expect it coming with me getting no interview this whole time. At least I had time to process the sadness. Penn here I come!!

Sorry to hear that, but congrats on Penn!!

Also, do you mind sharing your stats?

[theconsigliere]

In today. Interviewed yesterday

Congrats!

Do you mind sharing your stats? (Here or in a PM)

3.9/176. Thanks! I had totally given up on Harvard at least a month ago and then got a js1 on Tuesday, interviewed Wednesday, and js2 on Thursday so it happened crazy fast. Although all that was preceded by about 8 months of silence...

[lsat_hopeful]

In today. Interviewed yesterday

Congrats!

Do you mind sharing your stats? (Here or in a PM)

3.9/176.

Did you apply later in the cycle?

Congrats again, and good luck with all the moving stuff! At least you have some time to figure it out in these next few weeks!

[labergel]

Dinged as of 11:55 AM. Cant say I didn't expect it coming with me getting no interview this whole time. At least I had time to process the sadness. Penn here I come!!

Sorry to hear that, but congrats on Penn!!

Also, do you mind sharing your stats?

Sure, no problem. 165/4.04 ugpa from UCLA. Great human rights work softs countered a very low LSAT.