HerseyChris (2009 – 10)

Numbers fudged a bit.

I put choices up, but I'd be psyched with any of these schools obviously.

10/17/09
-Got my LSAT score: 167. I'm ok with it because I was nervous as hell going into the test, and I drank too much coffee before the test and had to run out during the third section to pee. Signed up for Dec already. Hope to get 170 this time.

10/31/09
- My twin brother got his GMAT score today: 770 out of 800 99 percentile. Now it's my turn to do well. Hopefully we can go to the same school, or at least to schools in the same city. He's not applying until the 2011 year, but since Law School is 3 years and Business School is 2 years, it works out, though depending on my Dec LSAT, I may have to defer my cycle until next year.

12/4/09
- I jammed my finger playing Thanksgiving football (and it's still swollen, making it hard to write with my right hand), then I food poisoned myself by making kidney bean soup and under cooking the beans, and my two closest coworkers have been coughing up a lung for the past two days, but oddly enough I'm pretty confident going into this test. 45 practice tests might do that, though. Hopefully I don't get nervous or lose focus. Good luck to everyone else taking the test tomorrow.

12/5/09
- Nope, confidence shot. The year of 2009 is not my year for tests. 0/7. Also, I hate reading about Japanese sculptors apparently.

12/18/09
- I guess I counted my chickens before they hatched. 0/5 is now 1/6, I passed the third section of my CPA exam. Hopefully I can end the year 2/7 (relative to expectations).

12/28/09
- 167 yet again. -13/14 curve? Wow. I'm going to get my list of schools finalized (probably Berkeley, UW, and UCLA) and send my apps once my LOR are in (hopefully by New Years), and if nothing good happens, I'm fine with waiting another year.

1/15/2010
- Sent in all my apps. I really hope I get into UW. And if I should be so lucky that Berkeley gives me any consideration at all, that would be great too, but UW is pretty much #1. And if I don't get into any school, not a huge deal since I didn't apply to any safeties and can always retake and apply next year.

2/18/2010
- Rejection email from Berkeley. Expected obviously. Dean Tom writes a hell of a rejection letter. I felt bad that he had to give me bad news, but to be sort of in the running for Berkeley is an honor in and of itself. I'm hoping UW and USC put me under review soon. I'm already under review at GULC.

2/26/2010
- Passed my fourth and final section of my CPA exam! On a side note, I stumbled across this article (http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/law%20schools_charts_page12.pdf). I didn't know that USC placed so well into big law (though I'm not certain I'd want to do big law). The good thing about applying to only four schools and no safeties is that you're psyched if you get into one. The bad thing is, there's a chance of delaying law school for another year.

3/3/2010
- Decision Rendered at GULC. Fully expecting a rejection, but I applied FT/PT so perhaps not. Hope to be under review at USC and UW soon.

3/5/2010
- Rejected by GULC via email.

3/6/2010
- In Review at UW! Nervous with anticipation and excitement.

3/26/2010
- In review at USC. Still no word from UW.

3/29/2010
- Blank on UW status checker, which generally means decision rendered. Now I just have to wait for the mail to come in.

3/30/2010
- The mail came quick and I'm in at UW! What a nerve-wracking cycle. On cloud nine though, and can't wait to start law school.
4/21/2010
- WL at USC, not that it matters. Unless Seattle has an earthquake or something.