The Waitlist Purgatory [NEW POLL!!] Forum

[Hennessy]

Also cuz word documents look like hell, and open slowly on phones. PDFs are crisp and clean.

[tparty]

do y'all just put your LOCIs in the body of the email, or do you print it, sign it, and scan it in as a pdf? mid-April, and I am super neurotic

I've just been attaching it as a word document with a short e-mail letting the committee know that I would like it added to my application. Don't think you need to be signing and PDF'ing tbh.

Word docs sketch me out. I would never send anything as a word doc unless it was a draft because they can accidentally be edited so easily. Just imagine someone downloads the file, opens it, goes to hit print, but misclicks and changes something. Plus, if someone has a different version of word than you, the conversion can mess up your formatting. PDF is much safer and more professional.

I agree with this. Attachments should be converted to PDFs IMO.

Yeah Word doc attachments are bad practice. Plus they're much more of a PITA to open than PDFs.

Also because Word docs can be embedded with viruses, PDFs are standard practice for business correspondence.

Welp, it's worked fine for me thus far. But I can see how it could be a problem. Will do PDF's in the future. Still don't think you need to print and sign though!

[sittykitty]

do y'all just put your LOCIs in the body of the email, or do you print it, sign it, and scan it in as a pdf? mid-April, and I am super neurotic

I've just been attaching it as a word document with a short e-mail letting the committee know that I would like it added to my application. Don't think you need to be signing and PDF'ing tbh.

Word docs sketch me out. I would never send anything as a word doc unless it was a draft because they can accidentally be edited so easily. Just imagine someone downloads the file, opens it, goes to hit print, but misclicks and changes something. Plus, if someone has a different version of word than you, the conversion can mess up your formatting. PDF is much safer and more professional.

I agree with this. Attachments should be converted to PDFs IMO.

Yeah Word doc attachments are bad practice. Plus they're much more of a PITA to open than PDFs.

Also because Word docs can be embedded with viruses, PDFs are standard practice for business correspondence.

Welp, it's worked fine for me thus far. But I can see how it could be a problem. Will do PDF's in the future. Still don't think you need to print and sign though!

I electronically sign my PDFs using my handy dandy Preview app if that helps anyone. It looks nice but I don't have to print or scan anything and none of the text gets blurry.

[lilitiger99]

Is anyone else considering a last minute June LSAT registration? I have a few t6 schools that WL me, but I mostly want to squeeze more money out of where I already deposited... Wonder if it's worth it to break out the LSAT prep and start studying more. URM, mid 16x, 3.8..

[34iplaw]

If anyone wants eyes on LOCIs, feel free to hit me up. I'll pester you about some too!

[melmelcoolj]

Just got reserved at Columbia. I knew it was coming. So a total of 7 right now. FML.

[SybillAnnDorsett]

well, on the bright side, we can see waitlist movement from schools like NYU (if it ever builds the waitlist) and Penn in as little as 2 weeks!

[34iplaw]

WLLS Class of 2020 represent.

[hydrohect]

Is anyone else considering a last minute June LSAT registration? I have a few t6 schools that WL me, but I mostly want to squeeze more money out of where I already deposited... Wonder if it's worth it to break out the LSAT prep and start studying more. URM, mid 16x, 3.8..

I went ahead and registered. It can only help and I'm already checked out at work anyways so....

[ahendrix3]

Is anyone else considering a last minute June LSAT registration? I have a few t6 schools that WL me, but I mostly want to squeeze more money out of where I already deposited... Wonder if it's worth it to break out the LSAT prep and start studying more. URM, mid 16x, 3.8..

+1

[lilitiger99]

Is anyone else considering a last minute June LSAT registration? I have a few t6 schools that WL me, but I mostly want to squeeze more money out of where I already deposited... Wonder if it's worth it to break out the LSAT prep and start studying more. URM, mid 16x, 3.8..

I went ahead and registered. It can only help and I'm already checked out at work anyways so....

I'm going to register today I think. Haven't even looked at the LSAT since dec 2016 though...

[raeofsunshine]

Has anyone heard any movement on a waitlist yet?

[jessmeesh]

Has anyone heard any movement on a waitlist yet?

I got in off of Vandy's WL on Friday.

[latetothis]

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[latetothis]

Has anyone heard any movement on a waitlist yet?

I got in off of Vandy's WL on Friday.

That's awesome! Congratulations.

[Thomas Hagan, ESQ.]

- Please don't quote - Have any of you told schools that you would definitely attend if accepted? I'm strongly interested in a school where I've been waitlisted, but I wouldn't' say I'm 100% because of financial considerations. How do you all handle this? Some people seem to be comfortable telling multiple schools that they would attend if admitted, and I'm not sure I feel comfortable with telling even one school that if I'm not actually 100% sure.

What would they do if they accept you and you decide not to go?? Rescind the offer that you didn't want? haha

[jessmeesh]

I put something along the lines of "I would be happy to attend" in my WhyXs that were sorta sent like LOCIs. I did it for multiple schools, but only schools that I would seriously commit to. If I get off the waitlist at one of them, I'll withdraw from the others pretty quickly.

[latetothis]

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[Jack_Kelly]

In at UTK
Denied at GMU
WL'd at W&M, W&L, UNC, UC Boulder (priority)
3.4, 160. Retaking June LSAT and seeing if I can get those to budge (or more $ at UTK)

[melmelcoolj]

- Please don't quote - Have any of you told schools that you would definitely attend if accepted? I'm strongly interested in a school where I've been waitlisted, but I wouldn't' say I'm 100% because of financial considerations. How do you all handle this? Some people seem to be comfortable telling multiple schools that they would attend if admitted, and I'm not sure I feel comfortable with telling even one school that if I'm not actually 100% sure.

I don't think they can do anything, and other schools cannot read your LOCIs. So you are pretty much writing whatever you deem necessary.

[SybillAnnDorsett]

okay but also for the love of god, those of you joining this party late, do not just tell every single school that you'd absolutely attend if accepted.

a cautionary story I tell to discourage this behavior: I once was in admissions at *T6*X and saw an admissions person from *T6*Y there, and they were awfully cozy. at the time I first posted this story not one person could posit a theory as to why.

we have no idea who interacts with whom, and whether these schools have secret friendships or alliances. so, just be smart!

[mtf612]

okay but also for the love of god, those of you joining this party late, do not just tell every single school that you'd absolutely attend if accepted.

a cautionary story I tell to discourage this behavior: I once was in admissions at *T6*X and saw an admissions person from *T6*Y there, and they were awfully cozy. at the time I first posted this story not one person could posit a theory as to why.

we have no idea who interacts with whom, and whether these schools have secret friendships or alliances. so, just be smart!

I'm personally treating my "will attend if accepted" LoCI as if it were waitlist binding early decision lol. HLS please love me

I'm positive that adcomms do check with one another if something seems off. For example, candidate tells school X that school Y gave them some huge scholarship. It isn't rare that school X calls up Y to double check if the number seems unreasonable.

So if a candidate uses the "will attend" LOCI, the waitlisting school is totally able to call up the deposited school and say that "Candidate Dumbo's character should be in question, they lied on their loci to us!"

Personally, I think an honest loci will be more powerful than one Frankensteined together. Passion for a school should seep through the page. I know for a couple of why X essays I wrote earlier this cycle I had to pull teeth to get words on screen. Those schools didn't work out (yp/wl).

[lilitiger99]

okay but also for the love of god, those of you joining this party late, do not just tell every single school that you'd absolutely attend if accepted.

a cautionary story I tell to discourage this behavior: I once was in admissions at *T6*X and saw an admissions person from *T6*Y there, and they were awfully cozy. at the time I first posted this story not one person could posit a theory as to why.

we have no idea who interacts with whom, and whether these schools have secret friendships or alliances. so, just be smart!

I'm personally treating my "will attend if accepted" LoCI as if it were waitlist binding early decision lol. HLS please love me

I'm positive that adcomms do check with one another if something seems off. For example, candidate tells school X that school Y gave them some huge scholarship. It isn't rare that school X calls up Y to double check if the number seems unreasonable.

So if a candidate uses the "will attend" LOCI, the waitlisting school is totally able to call up the deposited school and say that "Candidate Dumbo's character should be in question, they lied on their loci to us!"

Personally, I think an honest loci will be more powerful than one Frankensteined together. Passion for a school should seep through the page. I know for a couple of why X essays I wrote earlier this cycle I had to pull teeth to get words on screen. Those schools didn't work out (yp/wl).

eh... but personally when I wrote my LOCI to Stanford, H, etc. and I said I WOULD attend if I was given the chance, I wasn't lying. You can say that to multiple schools - it's not like they necessarily know 1. or 2. it's not like you're breaching a contract. If you would attend if given the chance, it doesn't matter if it's 10 schools or 20 or 3 schools. A LOCI is a LOCI and I doubt they're sitting around comparing notes on X applicant for LOCI on the WL that they didn't even accept you in the first place?

Though the scholarship thing is true. I know personally of a t13 applicant that lost a scholly because of fudging numbers.

[jjcorvino]

okay but also for the love of god, those of you joining this party late, do not just tell every single school that you'd absolutely attend if accepted.

a cautionary story I tell to discourage this behavior: I once was in admissions at *T6*X and saw an admissions person from *T6*Y there, and they were awfully cozy. at the time I first posted this story not one person could posit a theory as to why.

we have no idea who interacts with whom, and whether these schools have secret friendships or alliances. so, just be smart!

I'm personally treating my "will attend if accepted" LoCI as if it were waitlist binding early decision lol. HLS please love me

I'm positive that adcomms do check with one another if something seems off. For example, candidate tells school X that school Y gave them some huge scholarship. It isn't rare that school X calls up Y to double check if the number seems unreasonable.

So if a candidate uses the "will attend" LOCI, the waitlisting school is totally able to call up the deposited school and say that "Candidate Dumbo's character should be in question, they lied on their loci to us!"

Personally, I think an honest loci will be more powerful than one Frankensteined together. Passion for a school should seep through the page. I know for a couple of why X essays I wrote earlier this cycle I had to pull teeth to get words on screen. Those schools didn't work out (yp/wl).

Eh, I think this might be true to an extent. However, there is definitely a way to word these so that you aren't lying to them but stretching the truth a bit.

[lula43]

Did anyone else just get the Waitlist Update email from Duke?