Just sent out first applications, to Brooklyn and Loyola. It begins. More to follow.
11/18/11, Just sent out DePaul application.
Updates: Sent out 3 other applications in November/December to Fordham, Cardozo, and UC Hastings. Decided after 3 years to possibly take the LSAT again. Took a practice (timing myself) and scored a 159. Figured if I scored like that without having studied in a long time, I could study for solidly for three weeks and try to bring up my score by a few points to increase my chances for scholarship or up my chances for Fordham, Cardozo, Brooklyn, and Hastings particularly. I knew a bit of a gamble, because admissions are rolling, and instead of having my apps reviewed in November, early December, my application wouldn't be considered complete until January, giving other applicants to take up potential spots divvied to students who were on the back end of a range (25%-ish) on LSATs for these schools. I told myself, though, "Look, it's worth potentially being offered a scholarship" (if I could raise my score to a 163, say)... "so if someone offered me a chance to make $20,000, would I study hard for three weeks to try?" I told myself yes and went for it. Studied a ton, three weeks straight using all my old Kaplan books. Improved my games section, used to be good on LR, and probably should have practiced Reading comp more, my least fav section. Got my results back in January, and I did better in Logic games, but slightly worse in Logical reasoning, and worse in Reading comp. Knew my timing was off as going through. I scored 3 points lower, which was a bit of a blow. The gamble didn't pay off, but perspective-wise, look, I tried, and was really happy I put the effort in. And the fact is I knew it was a gamble and there was a chance it wouldn't go my way. Still happy I tried. Rewarding anyway.
I don't know whether certain schools looked at my application as it was, (i.e., read it through, and then put it in a pile to wait for the incoming score (already leaning toward a decision), or if they just said we're not even going to BEGIN to look at this till we have both scores.
But DePaul got back to me relatively quickly, about a week and a half after the December lsat came back. E-mailed acceptance! Then I got an e-mail from Loyola about a week later, accepting! Then I opened a letter I had got from DePaul by mail, and realized they offered me scholarship. Really great. Now I have some decision making to do. But this also upped my confidence a little, so not having applied to any schools since I had heard about my 2nd LSAT, I decided to apply to UC Davis (which I had considered back in November). Then I realized the deadlines were 2/1 for Loyola LA and San Diego, and decided to apply there to sort of know what kind of other options I would have all-round, or to see if they might offer me scholarship, too.
2/3. Found out 2/1 offered admission to Cardozo! This was incredible news. I had assumed I'd be waitlisted or possibly rejected outright. Great to know I have a NY option!
Glad to see another Hokie on this site! Was looking through applicants past of some schools I want to go to. I'm considering taking more time to do better on the LSATs if this cycle doesn't pan out. Where did you end up attending?