Yale c/o 2020 Applicants (2016-2017) Forum

[Aquinas]

Congrats to all who got the call this evening!!!!!!!!! Y'all are making me feel like a real mope for still not having my Yale 250 done yet!

[RictusErectus]

Congratulations to all the superstars who got in today!

xnsch, that's one heck of a cycle.

TAD, u go show Harvard where it's at!

[RictusErectus]

Accepted today! Unbelievable, what a dream---I can't even form words right now. Had to wait for the email before I told anyone because I couldn't believe it.
LSAT below 25, GPA between 25 and 50! PM for stats, other info/questions!

Congratulations, man! So happy for you. The Black Box did good.

[zeglo]

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[pretzeltime]

Congrats on all of the epic success y'all!!!! Hope you are still celebrating. <3

[Kaziende]

Yes, huge congrats to all the admits! Must feel amazing!

[ayylmao]

Wow holy crap, just got the call and I got in... I really can't believe it, still like shaking haha

Jesus, you must have one hell of a resume...

[ohgosh]

Do you get an email after getting accepted as well?

[peterquinn]

Does anyone know if the office is closed already for the holidays? I've been traveling all week and got back today with a Wednesday voicemail from Yale asking me to call back... Called and left a voicemail and now dying

[TAD]

Do you get an email after getting accepted as well?

Yep

[Daydreamer15]

Does anyone know if the office is closed already for the holidays? I've been traveling all week and got back today with a Wednesday voicemail from Yale asking me to call back... Called and left a voicemail and now dying

OMG UR IN

[peterquinn]

Does anyone know if the office is closed already for the holidays? I've been traveling all week and got back today with a Wednesday voicemail from Yale asking me to call back... Called and left a voicemail and now dying

OMG UR IN

Agh don't know if I can assume I haven't received an email or anything. And now I have to wait till the office reopens in January... this is almost funny

[xnsch]

Does anyone know if the office is closed already for the holidays? I've been traveling all week and got back today with a Wednesday voicemail from Yale asking me to call back... Called and left a voicemail and now dying

OMG UR IN

Agh don't know if I can assume I haven't received an email or anything. And now I have to wait till the office reopens in January... this is almost funny

I can't imagine you haven't been admitted. Why else would they be calling on the very night that they started admitting people for the season?

Congrats!

[pandaaa]

Tfw you realize you have a few typos on one of the optional supplements that's what I deserve I guess for not being "too interested" when applying and doing it on a whim...

[peterquinn]

Does anyone know if the office is closed already for the holidays? I've been traveling all week and got back today with a Wednesday voicemail from Yale asking me to call back... Called and left a voicemail and now dying

OMG UR IN

Agh don't know if I can assume I haven't received an email or anything. And now I have to wait till the office reopens in January... this is almost funny

I can't imagine you haven't been admitted. Why else would they be calling on the very night that they started admitting people for the season?

Congrats!

Ah you were right- got a call back this morning! Thanks you too!

[prepies04]

Congrats on everyone who got in already!!

For your College Activities, did y'all write a short paragraph for each activity??

[TAD]

Congrats on everyone who got in already!!

For your College Activities, did y'all write a short paragraph for each activity??

I didn't. Did mine in bullet points just like a resume.

[xnsch]

Congrats on everyone who got in already!!

For your College Activities, did y'all write a short paragraph for each activity??

I didn't. Did mine in bullet points just like a resume.

Same. I basically just took my resume and took a bit more space to elaborate but still kept the bullet point format

[call-me-bubbles]

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[armc808]

Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I'm really struggling to start my 250. The rest of my application is good to go, and my plan is to hit "submit" soon after the Dec. LSAT results come out, but I'm just feeling paralyzed by the gravity of the task. All things considered, I feel I have a strong application (relatively speaking -- URM, first-gen college, etc.), but I just don't know where to begin here. I've scoured the Yale website and all the usual go-to threads and sites for the 250.

Any tips from those of you who killed it this cycle and already got in? CONGRATULATIONS! I hope you guys are getting some much-deserved rest this holiday season!

Still working on my application, but based on my conversations with law advisers and friends who applied in previous cycles, you literally can choose whatever you want to write about. I've been told the important thing is that by the end of the statement you should have said something substantive about whatever you chose to write about (seems obvious, but I guess some people like to get creative with it which can end up backfiring). It can be a policy argument, something more reflective, etc. the topic really doesn't matter. The point of the exercise is for you to pick something that (presumably) means something to you and say something intelligent about it within a small space. Before anything you should take some time to really think about what it is you want to write about, and it's okay after taking some stabs at it to change your topic if you're just not feeling it.

Offering my two cents based on my limited experience; feel free to chime in if I'm way off base.

[xnsch]

Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I'm really struggling to start my 250. The rest of my application is good to go, and my plan is to hit "submit" soon after the Dec. LSAT results come out, but I'm just feeling paralyzed by the gravity of the task. All things considered, I feel I have a strong application (relatively speaking -- URM, first-gen college, etc.), but I just don't know where to begin here. I've scoured the Yale website and all the usual go-to threads and sites for the 250.

Any tips from those of you who killed it this cycle and already got in? CONGRATULATIONS! I hope you guys are getting some much-deserved rest this holiday season!

Still working on my application, but based on my conversations with law advisers and friends who applied in previous cycles, you literally can choose whatever you want to write about. I've been told the important thing is that by the end of the statement you should have said something substantive about whatever you chose to write about (seems obvious, but I guess some people like to get creative with it which can end up backfiring). It can be a policy argument, something more reflective, etc. the topic really doesn't matter. The point of the exercise is for you to pick something that (presumably) means something to you and say something intelligent about it within a small space. Before anything you should take some time to really think about what it is you want to write about, and it's okay after taking some stabs at it to change your topic if you're just not feeling it.

Offering my two cents based on my limited experience; feel free to chime in if I'm way off base.

I think the part about it being something substantive no matter your topic is pretty on point and probably the most important thing about the 250 in my eyes. Obviously the only experience I have is in writing my own 250, but for me what worked was choosing a topic that combined a sort of interesting policy argument while shedding light on a part of my me that wasn't really covered elsewhere in my application in either my PS or DS (a peculiar type of work experience I have as a social sciences major). By interweaving my own experience with the argument I was making, I was able to hit two birds with one stone, coming up with an interesting argument while also shedding more light on myself.

This is to say that if you're having a hard time thinking up a topic it may be useful to be a bit introspective and look at your application and see if there's something about you that the reader wouldn't get from what you have so far and using that to create an interesting argument.

[TAD]

Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I'm really struggling to start my 250. The rest of my application is good to go, and my plan is to hit "submit" soon after the Dec. LSAT results come out, but I'm just feeling paralyzed by the gravity of the task. All things considered, I feel I have a strong application (relatively speaking -- URM, first-gen college, etc.), but I just don't know where to begin here. I've scoured the Yale website and all the usual go-to threads and sites for the 250.

Any tips from those of you who killed it this cycle and already got in? CONGRATULATIONS! I hope you guys are getting some much-deserved rest this holiday season!

Alternatively, I went the complete opposite route as the posters above. My Yale 250 was probably the least bit substantive. Did not really talk about anything important. Went the creative route, but still kinda interwove it with aspects of my PS and DS and threw in some humor and a punchline at the end.

[prepies04]

Congrats on everyone who got in already!!

For your College Activities, did y'all write a short paragraph for each activity??

I didn't. Did mine in bullet points just like a resume.

Interesting. Did you also submit a resume? If so, was the information redundant from what you wrote on the resume?

[prepies04]

Congrats on everyone who got in already!!

For your College Activities, did y'all write a short paragraph for each activity??

I didn't. Did mine in bullet points just like a resume.

Same. I basically just took my resume and took a bit more space to elaborate but still kept the bullet point format

did you also submit the resume?

[TAD]

Congrats on everyone who got in already!!

For your College Activities, did y'all write a short paragraph for each activity??

I didn't. Did mine in bullet points just like a resume.

Interesting. Did you also submit a resume? If so, was the information redundant from what you wrote on the resume?

Nah, I didn't submit a resume. Would have been absolutely redundant for me. My college activities was literally just a copy and paste of my resume to fit the format they required.