Yale Forum

[flockavelli]

In at Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, and NYU still waiting on Stanford.

I have a 3.75 and a 175+

Fairly significant amount (within a few years of undergrad) work experience that isn't otherworldly prestigious but is demonstrably substantive and in line with my career goals.

Moderate academic credentials, wrote an honors thesis (related peripherally to law academia) and worked as a research assistant for a nationally recognized policy lab.

My rational so far has been that I would prefer Harvard over Yale anyway, but it is hard to say without getting into both what I would do, so I am considering applying.

What do you think? Is it worth the application fee?

[Tanicius]

In at Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, and NYU still waiting on Stanford.

I have a 3.75 and a 175+

Fairly significant amount (within a few years of undergrad) work experience that isn't otherworldly prestigious but is demonstrably substantive and in line with my career goals.

Moderate academic credentials, wrote an honors thesis (related peripherally to law academia) and worked as a research assistant for a nationally recognized policy lab.

My rational so far has been that I would prefer Harvard over Yale anyway, but it is hard to say without getting into both what I would do, so I am considering applying.

What do you think? Is it worth the application fee?

Why not?

[flockavelli]

In at Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, and NYU still waiting on Stanford.

I have a 3.75 and a 175+

Fairly significant amount (within a few years of undergrad) work experience that isn't otherworldly prestigious but is demonstrably substantive and in line with my career goals.

Moderate academic credentials, wrote an honors thesis (related peripherally to law academia) and worked as a research assistant for a nationally recognized policy lab.

My rational so far has been that I would prefer Harvard over Yale anyway, but it is hard to say without getting into both what I would do, so I am considering applying.

What do you think? Is it worth the application fee?

Why not?

There is almost no documented history of them admitting (non-URM) applicants with a gpa that low.

[Tanicius]

In at Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, and NYU still waiting on Stanford.

I have a 3.75 and a 175+

Fairly significant amount (within a few years of undergrad) work experience that isn't otherworldly prestigious but is demonstrably substantive and in line with my career goals.

Moderate academic credentials, wrote an honors thesis (related peripherally to law academia) and worked as a research assistant for a nationally recognized policy lab.

My rational so far has been that I would prefer Harvard over Yale anyway, but it is hard to say without getting into both what I would do, so I am considering applying.

What do you think? Is it worth the application fee?

Why not?

There is almost no documented history of them admitting (non-URM) applicants with a gpa that low.

Welp, doesn't sound like we could have much to add then. Do it or don't.

[rpupkin]

There is almost no documented history of them admitting (non-URM) applicants with a gpa that low.

What do you want us to tell you? You're a long-shot for YLS. But it's not like you're 3.2/168. You had the credentials to get into HLS; it's not crazy to apply to YLS.

[sublime]

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[flockavelli]

What do you want us to tell you? You're a long-shot for YLS. But it's not like you're 3.2/168. You had the credentials to get into HLS; it's not crazy to apply to YLS.

Just an opinion - does TLS think it's worth the money knowing that the credentials look fringe, but they probably have a pretty rock solid 3.8 floor?

[Clemenceau]

What the hell

Just apply

[OhBoyOhBortles]

If I had those stats I would have sent Yale an app without hesitation. Spend the 100.

[Rigo]

Is $100 some kind of severe financial hardship? If not, apply.
Yeah you likely won't get in, but you could say that about pretty much any Yale applicant and yet ~250 get in every year.

[banjo]

I had the same stats and didn't bother, but in retrospect I should have just dropped the $100 bucks. YOLO and stuff.

[Arad]

Do it. Stop being so stingy, it's under $100.

[Mack.Hambleton]

Yale app is 60 bucks iirc idk why people keep saying 100

[Rigo]

Yale app is 60 bucks iirc idk why people keep saying 100

People are probably adding the LSAC fee and rounding up.

[sublime]

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[Longtimecoming19]

Your odds of getting in are very low. Everyone's odds of getting in are very low. You certainly wouldn't be wasting your money by sending in an application. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you could have gone to YLS.

[PeanutsNJam]

Basically everybody with a 170+ and a GPA over 3.5 is applying. I think this cycle has ~2k people with 170+? Say 1.5k of those have 3.5+. So 250/1500, all of whom have 3.5+/170+. That's as close as you can get to "odds", 250/1500. I think the lowest admitted GPA is 3.3 or something, but then they took a 158 so... yeah.

[downbeat14]

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[Pragmatic Gun]

Dude, just spend the hundred bucks. I don't know what you want from us here.

[eriedoctrine]

I would apply.

[calbarexamftw]

Apply. Yale is weird. It's definitely worth an application, they might waitlist you, and you might transfer. Apply.

[rnoodles]

I understand why everyone feels like they should ask for chances for School X or School Y, and I understand that there's a pretty strong statistical correlation between applicants and admittances. But honestly, why psych yourself out? You have solid numbers that put among the most competitive applicants this cycle. You've gotten into some of the most competitive schools already. You have solid 'soft' factors (or so I assume). So why not apply? You never know if you're going to be that one kid that got in - that one kid that everyone X number of cycles from now is going to be talking about as an example of the slimmest of chances for admission for someone else in your exact same position.

In short, if you're not in a financial bind and can afford it, then why not do it? Amending Tennyson here, but it's better to have tried and lost than never to have tried at all bud.

I also had a great Rob Schneider gif to end this on a super powerful note and TLS says I can't use it yet. #Anticlimactic

[mvp99]

are you getting a full/near full ride at CCN or something at H? damn fck Yale in that case if all you want is to follow the herd