TLS c/o 2021 Applicants Thread Forum

[littlewing67]

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[HowardHamlin]

Does anyone ever think why they didn’t want to be an accountant or a computer scientist or something? Even after being certain about law school for some time now the idea of actually going has me shook- i cant explain it haha but that quarter life crisis is kicking in for sure now that my apps are in

Yeah I'm feeling this hard. A couple weeks ago it really hit me that I'll be moving away from all my family and friends for at least 3 years (and possibly much, much longer) to one of around 7 cities. I have no idea where I'll be living in 7 months. What made it even worse is that my current job has been hinting that they want to bring me on full time after I graduate, and that I also have the opportunity to be a grad assistant and get my MBA for free at my TTT undergrad.

Pretty sure I'm going to law school but you're right, the fact that its finally becoming real has me shook.

You have to go to law school man, no other profession would value your lack of self awareness as highly. It is a rare breed that can turn any post into a humblebrag.

[AvatarMeelo]

Anyone know the approximate earliest late Dec/early Jan applicants can expect to hear back?

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I know I just submitted but wowowow I wanna know like yesterday.

[DorkothyParker]

Anyone know the approximate earliest late Dec/early Jan applicants can expect to hear back?

It will vary by school, but it seems most schools aim to have decisions 4-6 weeks after the application has gone in review.
Some schools have the timeline on their status checker.

[wolfonlawstreet]

So out of boredom and impatience, here are dates of decisions last year that are nearest the start of the year....
(off LSN so a lot of self-selection and very few answers)

Yale - 2/2
Stanford - 1/5
Harvard - 1/18
Chicago - 1/19
Columbia - 1/18
NYU - 1/10
Penn - 1/12
Michigan - 1/3
UVA - 1/5
Duke - 1/5
Northwestern- 1/19
Berkeley - 1/2
Cornell - 1/5
Texas - 1/4
Georgetown - 1/3
UCLA - 1/2
Vanderbilt - 1/3
WUSTL - Someone got accepted today, so they're definitely working...
USC - 1/2

[MrAdultman]

So out of boredom and impatience, here are dates of decisions last year that are nearest the start of the year....
(off LSN so a lot of self-selection and very few answers)

Yale - 2/2
Stanford - 1/5
Harvard - 1/18
Chicago - 1/19
Columbia - 1/18
NYU - 1/10
Penn - 1/12
Michigan - 1/3
UVA - 1/5
Duke - 1/5
Northwestern- 1/19
Berkeley - 1/2
Cornell - 1/5
Texas - 1/4
Georgetown - 1/3
UCLA - 1/2
Vanderbilt - 1/3
WUSTL - Someone got accepted today, so they're definitely working...
USC - 1/2

Super helpful, thanks! I was peeking at a couple schools yesterday as well, looking at the past 3 years of data - my guess is that Columbia and Chicago will start their next round on the 18th (give or take a day). Columbia seems to have several rounds going out in consecutive days for at least a week, and Chicago does their rounds at 2-3 week intervals. Penn will likely be the week before that.

[jjdude14]

Anyone know the approximate earliest late Dec/early Jan applicants can expect to hear back?

+1

+2

I know I just submitted but wowowow I wanna know like yesterday.

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[Slippin' Jimmy]

Does anyone ever think why they didn’t want to be an accountant or a computer scientist or something? Even after being certain about law school for some time now the idea of actually going has me shook- i cant explain it haha but that quarter life crisis is kicking in for sure now that my apps are in

Yeah I'm feeling this hard. A couple weeks ago it really hit me that I'll be moving away from all my family and friends for at least 3 years (and possibly much, much longer) to one of around 7 cities. I have no idea where I'll be living in 7 months. What made it even worse is that my current job has been hinting that they want to bring me on full time after I graduate, and that I also have the opportunity to be a grad assistant and get my MBA for free at my TTT undergrad.

Pretty sure I'm going to law school but you're right, the fact that its finally becoming real has me shook.

You have to go to law school man, no other profession would value your lack of self awareness as highly. It is a rare breed that can turn any post into a humblebrag.

It is a rare breed that "calls me out" in half of their posts, while the other half are shitty trolls.

[KENYADIGG1T]

Does anyone ever think why they didn’t want to be an accountant or a computer scientist or something? Even after being certain about law school for some time now the idea of actually going has me shook- i cant explain it haha but that quarter life crisis is kicking in for sure now that my apps are in

Yeah I'm feeling this hard. A couple weeks ago it really hit me that I'll be moving away from all my family and friends for at least 3 years (and possibly much, much longer) to one of around 7 cities. I have no idea where I'll be living in 7 months. What made it even worse is that my current job has been hinting that they want to bring me on full time after I graduate, and that I also have the opportunity to be a grad assistant and get my MBA for free at my TTT undergrad.

Pretty sure I'm going to law school but you're right, the fact that its finally becoming real has me shook.

You have to go to law school man, no other profession would value your lack of self awareness as highly. It is a rare breed that can turn any post into a humblebrag.

It is a rare breed that "calls me out" in half of their posts, while the other half are shitty trolls.

[HowardHamlin]

Does anyone ever think why they didn’t want to be an accountant or a computer scientist or something? Even after being certain about law school for some time now the idea of actually going has me shook- i cant explain it haha but that quarter life crisis is kicking in for sure now that my apps are in

Yeah I'm feeling this hard. A couple weeks ago it really hit me that I'll be moving away from all my family and friends for at least 3 years (and possibly much, much longer) to one of around 7 cities. I have no idea where I'll be living in 7 months. What made it even worse is that my current job has been hinting that they want to bring me on full time after I graduate, and that I also have the opportunity to be a grad assistant and get my MBA for free at my TTT undergrad.

Pretty sure I'm going to law school but you're right, the fact that its finally becoming real has me shook.

You have to go to law school man, no other profession would value your lack of self awareness as highly. It is a rare breed that can turn any post into a humblebrag.

It is a rare breed that "calls me out" in half of their posts, while the other half are shitty trolls.

It comes from a place of great insecurity if we are being honest. Alas, I am not above both medians and not fit to breathe the same air as you James. Wait, is it medians or 75ths? I guess I should look at your post history, it is included in all of them.

[Eleven]

So all of you who just got back December scores, are you requesting fee waivers this week and waiting until mid-week next week to apply or just burning your money and sending them in this week? I think I've convinced myself to wait because they aren't looking at apps until next Tuesday again anyway....

[rowdy]

Does anyone ever think why they didn’t want to be an accountant or a computer scientist or something? Even after being certain about law school for some time now the idea of actually going has me shook- i cant explain it haha but that quarter life crisis is kicking in for sure now that my apps are in

Yeah I'm feeling this hard. A couple weeks ago it really hit me that I'll be moving away from all my family and friends for at least 3 years (and possibly much, much longer) to one of around 7 cities. I have no idea where I'll be living in 7 months. What made it even worse is that my current job has been hinting that they want to bring me on full time after I graduate, and that I also have the opportunity to be a grad assistant and get my MBA for free at my TTT undergrad.

Pretty sure I'm going to law school but you're right, the fact that its finally becoming real has me shook.

You have to go to law school man, no other profession would value your lack of self awareness as highly. It is a rare breed that can turn any post into a humblebrag.

It is a rare breed that "calls me out" in half of their posts, while the other half are shitty trolls.

It comes from a place of great insecurity if we are being honest. Alas, I am not above both medians and not fit to breathe the same air as you James. Wait, is it medians or 75ths? I guess I should look at your post history, it is included in all of them.

*I start telling the rat parable that Javier Bardem tells in Skyfall but massively screw it up and start retelling the plot to Redwall for several minutes before I realize my mistake and try to play it off by taking a long drag of a cigarette and saying "we're all just rats man" while staring off into the distance*

[BlendedUnicorn]

Does anyone ever think why they didn’t want to be an accountant or a computer scientist or something? Even after being certain about law school for some time now the idea of actually going has me shook- i cant explain it haha but that quarter life crisis is kicking in for sure now that my apps are in

Yeah I'm feeling this hard. A couple weeks ago it really hit me that I'll be moving away from all my family and friends for at least 3 years (and possibly much, much longer) to one of around 7 cities. I have no idea where I'll be living in 7 months. What made it even worse is that my current job has been hinting that they want to bring me on full time after I graduate, and that I also have the opportunity to be a grad assistant and get my MBA for free at my TTT undergrad.

Pretty sure I'm going to law school but you're right, the fact that its finally becoming real has me shook.

You have to go to law school man, no other profession would value your lack of self awareness as highly. It is a rare breed that can turn any post into a humblebrag.

It is a rare breed that "calls me out" in half of their posts, while the other half are shitty trolls.

It comes from a place of great insecurity if we are being honest. Alas, I am not above both medians and not fit to breathe the same air as you James. Wait, is it medians or 75ths? I guess I should look at your post history, it is included in all of them.

Chill dude.

[BlendedUnicorn]

Actually, you know what? Howard Hamlin trolling slippin jimmy is a pretty hilarious schtick. Carry on.

[Slippin' Jimmy]

Actually, you know what? Howard Hamlin trolling slippin jimmy is a pretty hilarious schtick. Carry on.

Would be better if it was Chuck.

[HowardHamlin]

I'm just trying to figure out why "calls me out" is in quotations.

[virginia_direwoolf]

Does anyone ever think why they didn’t want to be an accountant or a computer scientist or something? Even after being certain about law school for some time now the idea of actually going has me shook- i cant explain it haha but that quarter life crisis is kicking in for sure now that my apps are in

Yeah I'm feeling this hard. A couple weeks ago it really hit me that I'll be moving away from all my family and friends for at least 3 years (and possibly much, much longer) to one of around 7 cities. I have no idea where I'll be living in 7 months. What made it even worse is that my current job has been hinting that they want to bring me on full time after I graduate, and that I also have the opportunity to be a grad assistant and get my MBA for free at my TTT undergrad.

Pretty sure I'm going to law school but you're right, the fact that its finally becoming real has me shook.

You have to go to law school man, no other profession would value your lack of self awareness as highly. It is a rare breed that can turn any post into a humblebrag.

It is a rare breed that "calls me out" in half of their posts, while the other half are shitty trolls.

It comes from a place of great insecurity if we are being honest. Alas, I am not above both medians and not fit to breathe the same air as you James. Wait, is it medians or 75ths? I guess I should look at your post history, it is included in all of them.

*I start telling the rat parable that Javier Bardem tells in Skyfall but massively screw it up and start retelling the plot to Redwall for several minutes before I realize my mistake and try to play it off by taking a long drag of a cigarette and saying "we're all just rats man" while staring off into the distance*

This.

Also, @Harry: There's enough dickishness in the world without increasing that dickishness on an anonymous online forum for neurotic nerds.

[pupper]

Does anyone ever think why they didn’t want to be an accountant or a computer scientist or something?

My quarter life crisis involved switching from a career as a computer scientist to becoming a lawyer! If you are seriously wishing you had done something else, there is plenty of time! You could get a nanodegree from Udacity and have a job in data analysis, software engineering, or something by the end of next year for less than 1% cost of law school!

[NavyNuke]

This break has been much needed. I have thoroughly enjoyed not obsessing over status checkers that aren't changing these last few days. Also it's starting to sink in that with the schools I have left, I'm most likely just waiting for dings and waitlists (with the exception of hopefully Emory.. seriously Emory why take so long?) Time to start comparing the schools I'm in at, and thinking long and hard about if I'm really down for that Ann Arbor cold.

[DorkothyParker]

Does anyone ever think why they didn’t want to be an accountant or a computer scientist or something? Even after being certain about law school for some time now the idea of actually going has me shook- i cant explain it haha but that quarter life crisis is kicking in for sure now that my apps are in

I just wish I knew what I wanted to do while I was still in undergrad. Or before I had a kid. Maybe before I did my grad program (it was just a 13 credit certification), but then that is probably a saving grace. I wasn't very serious in UG because I didn't plan to get any additional education at the time.

But it's been several years since UG. Planning is important. But life will never be what you think it should be, but it is what you make it. (Old Lady Wisdom)

[Prudence]

But it's been several years since UG. Planning is important. But life will never be what you think it should be, but it is what you make it. (Old Lady Wisdom)

Ahh I like this. Seems kinda corny but i like it kinda makes me feel like my mistakes and fears are life shattering (unless ya know, lots of debt is obtained)


Ah well our applications are out. Lets enjoy the weird freedom that applications being over provides!!

[littlewing67]

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[dm1683]

This break has been much needed. I have thoroughly enjoyed not obsessing over status checkers that aren't changing these last few days. Also it's starting to sink in that with the schools I have left, I'm most likely just waiting for dings and waitlists (with the exception of hopefully Emory.. seriously Emory why take so long?) Time to start comparing the schools I'm in at, and thinking long and hard about if I'm really down for that Ann Arbor cold.

tfw you submitted around the same time as someone and you only have one acceptance and no other decisions

As far as the cold, Ann Arbor has roughly the same climate as Milwaukee (maybe a liiiiittle warmer) and it's 6 degrees outside rn with -10 wind chill

[jjdude14]

So all of you who just got back December scores, are you requesting fee waivers this week and waiting until mid-week next week to apply or just burning your money and sending them in this week? I think I've convinced myself to wait because they aren't looking at apps until next Tuesday again anyway....

I got fee waivers to everywhere except Georgetown after September. I emailed them and am waiting on submitting my app until they reply. At this point, a 5 day difference isn't going to heavily impact admission chances (I hope). Just make sure everything is ready to go the second they have the waiver available.
But for me saving (a little) money is very important.

[NavyNuke]

This break has been much needed. I have thoroughly enjoyed not obsessing over status checkers that aren't changing these last few days. Also it's starting to sink in that with the schools I have left, I'm most likely just waiting for dings and waitlists (with the exception of hopefully Emory.. seriously Emory why take so long?) Time to start comparing the schools I'm in at, and thinking long and hard about if I'm really down for that Ann Arbor cold.

tfw you submitted around the same time as someone and you only have one acceptance and no other decisions

As far as the cold, Ann Arbor has roughly the same climate as Milwaukee (maybe a liiiiittle warmer) and it's 6 degrees outside rn with -10 wind chill

You are going to have a great cycle.. The schools I'm waiting on to ding me are the ones you will be choosing from come March

-10 wind chill. sheesh.