Should I email my safety schools? Forum

[Adam0190]

Is it a good idea to email my safety schools that I am actually interested in them before they WL me? I am <25% GPA and >>75% LSAT at both, with no ties to either area. I am very interested in living in either of the places though, and if I can get a significant scholarship I would probably attend them over the higher ranked schools I have already gotten into.

One of the safety schools has put my app on hold until possibly April, and the other hasn't made a decision despite having my app since November. My thinking is that I may be better off with a big scholarship to a worse school in a region I like, than ~50% $$ to a better school in a region I'm not sure about. LSN shows people with similar GPAs and worse LSATs have already been accepted and offered $$ to both schools, so that's why I'm thinking it could be a YP issue.

[guano]

Is it a good idea to email my safety schools that I am actually interested in them before they WL me? I am <25% GPA and >>75% LSAT at both, with no ties to either area. I am very interested in living in either of the places though, and if I can get a significant scholarship I would probably attend them over the higher ranked schools I have already gotten into.

One of the safety schools has put my app on hold until possibly April, and the other hasn't made a decision despite having my app since November. My thinking is that I may be better off with a big scholarship to a worse school in a region I like, than ~50% $$ to a better school in a region I'm not sure about. LSN shows people with similar GPAs and worse LSATs have already been accepted and offered $$ to both schools, so that's why I'm thinking it could be a YP issue.

um, wait. You're below their 25% GPA, and above their 75%? Splitter? Are those schools notoriously splitter-friendly? Otherwise, that doesn't sound like a safety.

But, you should absolutely let them know that you're interested (don't ask for scholly until you've been accepted) by sending in a LOCI or a Why X

[Adam0190]

Is it a good idea to email my safety schools that I am actually interested in them before they WL me? I am <25% GPA and >>75% LSAT at both, with no ties to either area. I am very interested in living in either of the places though, and if I can get a significant scholarship I would probably attend them over the higher ranked schools I have already gotten into.

One of the safety schools has put my app on hold until possibly April, and the other hasn't made a decision despite having my app since November. My thinking is that I may be better off with a big scholarship to a worse school in a region I like, than ~50% $$ to a better school in a region I'm not sure about. LSN shows people with similar GPAs and worse LSATs have already been accepted and offered $$ to both schools, so that's why I'm thinking it could be a YP issue.

um, wait. You're below their 25% GPA, and above their 75%? Splitter? Are those schools notoriously splitter-friendly? Otherwise, that doesn't sound like a safety.

But, you should absolutely let them know that you're interested (don't ask for scholly until you've been accepted) by sending in a LOCI or a Why X

When I applied I only used LSAC predictions because I didn't know about LSN and they had me at 90-100% at each school. Looking at LSN over the last 5 cycles, almost everyone with my LSAT was accepted, or waitlisted, regardless of GPA. "Safety" may not have been the right word, but either way they are schools that I definitely expected to be accepted to, with rankings and numbers below other schools I have been accepted to

[midwest17]

If you didn't send in "Why X"s with your original application, you can do so now.