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Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 3:49 pm
by 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?
Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 3:56 pm
by Tanicius
flockavelli wrote: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?
Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 3:59 pm
by flockavelli
Tanicius wrote:flockavelli wrote: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.
Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:00 pm
by Tanicius
flockavelli wrote:Tanicius wrote:flockavelli wrote: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.
Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:07 pm
by rpupkin
flockavelli wrote:
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.
Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:09 pm
by sublime
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Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:10 pm
by flockavelli
rpupkin wrote:
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?
Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:18 pm
by Clemenceau
What the hell
Just apply
Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:23 pm
by OhBoyOhBortles
If I had those stats I would have sent Yale an app without hesitation. Spend the 100.
Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 5:49 pm
by 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.
Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 8:48 pm
by banjo
I had the same stats and didn't bother, but in retrospect I should have just dropped the $100 bucks. YOLO and stuff.
Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:01 pm
by Arad
Do it. Stop being so stingy, it's under $100.
Re: Yale
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 5:06 pm
by Mack.Hambleton
Yale app is 60 bucks iirc idk why people keep saying 100
Re: Yale
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 11:35 pm
by Rigo
Mack.Hambleton wrote:Yale app is 60 bucks iirc idk why people keep saying 100
People are probably adding the LSAC fee and rounding up.
Re: Yale
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 11:38 pm
by sublime
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Re: Yale
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:08 pm
by 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.
Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:41 am
by 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.
Re: Yale
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:54 am
by downbeat14
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Re: Yale
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:04 am
by Pragmatic Gun
sublime wrote:Dude, just spend the hundred bucks. I don't know what you want from us here.
Re: Yale
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:16 am
by eriedoctrine
I would apply.
Re: Yale
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:24 am
by calbarexamftw
Apply. Yale is weird. It's definitely worth an application, they might waitlist you, and you might transfer. Apply.
Re: Yale
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:30 am
by 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
Re: Yale
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:40 am
by 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