bigboi54 (2009 – 2010)

First Cycle (2007-2008), my numbers were 144 LSAT and 3.24 LSDAS GPA. I was:

Accepted:

None

Conditional Admissions:

Florida Coastal School of Law

Waitlisted:

William & Mary (Eventually Rejected)
University of South Carolina (Eventually Rejected)

Rejected:

Fourteen. Too painful to relive. With waitlist rejections, sixteen in all. I did keep all of them though. I pull them out and laugh everytime I make an A in a law school class or when I need extra motivation to do well in a difficult class.
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Second Cycle (2008 - 2009), my numbers were 144 LSAT and 3.24 LSDAS GPA. I did not retake the LSAT. I was:

Accepted:

CLEO Program (Mid-January)
Valparaiso University (Mid-February)
Ohio Northern University Summer Starter Program (Late February) with a 75% Tuition Grant.
West Virginia University (Mid March)
Indiana CLEO Program (Mid-April)
Indiana University - Indianapolis (Mid April)

Conditional Admissions:

Appalachian School of Law
Florida Coastal School of Law (I did not apply here this cycle but they still made the offer. I do not know why nor did I ask because I had been accepted to all four law schools by the time the offer was made).

Waitlisted:

University of Tennessee (Eventually Rejected)
William & Mary (Eventually Rejected)
University of South Carolina (Eventually Rejected)

Rejected:

Five. With Waitlist rejections, eight in all. Tennessee gave me a personal rejection letter from being waitlisted. I think I applied to twelve schools in all. I kept my rejections for this cycle also.
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Fall 2009 (1L Year):

I began my law school journey at Indiana University-Indianapolis. My first year of law school could not have gone much better. I should be on my way to a top ten law school for sure but I will do two safety schools (Notre Dame and Vandy).

Since I am part-time, I am not eligible for IU-Bloomington, Michigan, or Duke but my friend (who is also part-time and went to IU-Indy) applied to IU-Bloomington and got in on transfer. My GPA is much higher than his so that inspired me to do the same with these three schools. We shall see...

I will give strong weight to IU-Bloomington because I get to keep my GPA. If they give me in-state tuition, only Yale or Michigan will probably beat them out. Ironically, my GPA would actually increase (around 3.94) if accepted to IU-Bloomington so it will be a tough decision if they allow me to transfer-in.

Fun Facts:

Of the eight schools I applied to for transfer this cycle, only three are repeats from my previous admission cycles. In the 2007-2008 admissions cycle, I applied to Virginia, Duke, and Vanderbilt.

I missed the deadline to apply to UGA for transfer. I applied there my first two admissions cycles and was rejected both times of course. I was not eligible to apply for transfer because they do not take part-time students. However, I was going to see if my third time applying was a charm. Oh well, too late now...