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Buckle up, I guess.

Checking in, not sure how long I'll stay on

I'll probably ride this one out. At least until mid-summer or so. Helps that I'm currently expecting to be in the same city anyway.

Check in.

Checking in. Chicago seems to have a crazy wait list, students get pulled off of it as late as September.

jalapenocheeseburger wrote:Checking in. Chicago seems to have a crazy wait list, students get pulled off of it as late as September.

Doesn't law school start by then? lol. Do those students just drop everything at their current law school and move to chicago?

Another1 wrote:

jalapenocheeseburger wrote:Checking in. Chicago seems to have a crazy wait list, students get pulled off of it as late as September.

Doesn't law school start by then? lol. Do those students just drop everything at their current law school and move to chicago?

Chicago starts in late September.

jalapenocheeseburger wrote:

Another1 wrote:

jalapenocheeseburger wrote:Checking in. Chicago seems to have a crazy wait list, students get pulled off of it as late as September.

Doesn't law school start by then? lol. Do those students just drop everything at their current law school and move to chicago?

Chicago starts in late September.

But most other schools start in August

Another1 wrote:

jalapenocheeseburger wrote:Checking in. Chicago seems to have a crazy wait list, students get pulled off of it as late as September.

Doesn't law school start by then? lol. Do those students just drop everything at their current law school and move to chicago?

A couple of us are going to Northwestern, which makes this move a little easier (though not that easy, given where Hyde Park is). Otherwise, I'm sure a few kids move across the country every year. It's certainly not easy.

Do you know when we can expect movement?

Nlawsing wrote:Do you know when we can expect movement?

I'm assuming we will get the waitlist form this week or next week to gauge whether we want to stay on it. Then they will move from there if the need exists.

is there a benefit to withdrawing applications? might be wrong post to ask this i suppose

pdevastey wrote:is there a benefit to withdrawing applications? might be wrong post to ask this i suppose

Other than being a decent human being to people who would actually kill to go to a school you're blasé about? I guess you can be that guy that causes someone else to suffer another couple of weeks. Hope no one does the same to you!

genericwit wrote:

pdevastey wrote:is there a benefit to withdrawing applications? might be wrong post to ask this i suppose

Other than being a decent human being to people who would actually kill to go to a school you're blasé about? I guess you can be that guy that causes someone else to suffer another couple of weeks. Hope no one does the same to you!

I meant I have received no response yet haha I have seen alot of people withdrawing...what is the point?

pdevastey wrote:

genericwit wrote:

pdevastey wrote:is there a benefit to withdrawing applications? might be wrong post to ask this i suppose

Other than being a decent human being to people who would actually kill to go to a school you're blasé about? I guess you can be that guy that causes someone else to suffer another couple of weeks. Hope no one does the same to you!

I meant I have received no response yet haha I have seen alot of people withdrawing...what is the point?

What I just said. Why stay on a waitlist to a school you wouldn't attend, other than to be a douche? That is the point. The point is to not be a douche.

genericwit wrote:

pdevastey wrote:

genericwit wrote:

pdevastey wrote:is there a benefit to withdrawing applications? might be wrong post to ask this i suppose

Other than being a decent human being to people who would actually kill to go to a school you're blasé about? I guess you can be that guy that causes someone else to suffer another couple of weeks. Hope no one does the same to you!

I meant I have received no response yet haha I have seen alot of people withdrawing...what is the point?

What I just said. Why stay on a waitlist to a school you wouldn't attend, other than to be a douche? That is the point. The point is to not be a douche.

I like to consider it garnering "good waitlist karma." I withdrew from all my other waitlists so that the Waitlist Gods may smile down on me.

James.K.Polk wrote:

genericwit wrote:

pdevastey wrote:

genericwit wrote:

pdevastey wrote:is there a benefit to withdrawing applications? might be wrong post to ask this i suppose

Other than being a decent human being to people who would actually kill to go to a school you're blasé about? I guess you can be that guy that causes someone else to suffer another couple of weeks. Hope no one does the same to you!

I meant I have received no response yet haha I have seen alot of people withdrawing...what is the point?

What I just said. Why stay on a waitlist to a school you wouldn't attend, other than to be a douche? That is the point. The point is to not be a douche.

I like to consider it garnering "good waitlist karma." I withdrew from all my other waitlists so that the Waitlist Gods may smile down on me.

I was going to withdraw from Texas the day they accepted me. I hope that didn't screw my waitlist karma. But I was truly considering going for a long time, so I hope I'm not karmatically penalized for declining the offer. I did promptly decline most my other offers of admissions/waitlists though.

Just wanna say there's hope for y'all! Goodluck!

In today hope exists

captainamerica wrote:In today hope exists

Congratulations!

captainamerica wrote:In today hope exists

Congrats! Do you mind sharing your stats and whether or not your status checker changed?

Applesauce11 wrote:

captainamerica wrote:In today hope exists

Congrats! Do you mind sharing your stats and whether or not your status checker changed?

My status checker changed, but I got the email telling me I was in before I checked it. My stats are LSAT<25th, GPA >75th... so reverse splitter.

captainamerica wrote:In today hope exists

What! Congrats!!

Has anyone got an email confirming their intent to stay on the WL (besides their initial one)?

James.K.Polk wrote:

captainamerica wrote:In today hope exists

What! Congrats!!

Has anyone got an email confirming their intent to stay on the WL (besides their initial one)?

After I got the initial waitlist email I sent in an LOCI, and then they sent me an email that said thanks. There wasn't anything formal that they sent though- were we supposed to fill out a form or something saying we wanted to stay on the list?

Applesauce11 wrote:

James.K.Polk wrote:

captainamerica wrote:In today hope exists

What! Congrats!!

Has anyone got an email confirming their intent to stay on the WL (besides their initial one)?

After I got the initial waitlist email I sent in an LOCI, and then they sent me an email that said thanks. There wasn't anything formal that they sent though- were we supposed to fill out a form or something saying we wanted to stay on the list?

That's what their website suggests, but maybe it won't be for a while.