bouboums (2017-2018)

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Application Information

F - Fee Waiver A - Attending W - Withdrawn D - Deferred
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# Law School Status Type $$$ Sent Received Complete Interview Date Decision Updated
Vanderbilt University F Accepted Type: RA $119,000 Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: 12/14/17 Upd: 6 years
Cornell University F Accepted Type: RA $105,000 Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: 01/17/18 Upd: 6 years
University of Virginia F Accepted Type: RA $60,000 Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: 11/28/17 Upd: 6 years
Duke University Waitlisted Type: RA Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: -- Upd: 6 years
Northwestern University F Waitlisted Type: RA Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: -- Upd: 6 years
Columbia University Waitlisted Type: RA Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: -- Upd: 6 years
Harvard University Rejected Type: RA Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: -- Upd: 6 years
Stanford University Rejected Type: RA Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: -- Upd: 6 years
University of Pennsylvania Waitlisted Type: RA Sent: -- Rec: 10/30/17 Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: 01/29/18 Upd: 6 years
University of Texas Austin F Accepted Type: RA $73,476 Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: -- Upd: 6 years
University of Chicago Waitlisted Type: RA Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: -- Upd: 6 years
University of Michigan Ann Arbor Accepted Type: RA $75,000 Sent: -- Rec: 10/30/17 Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: 12/20/17 Upd: 6 years
Georgetown University F Accepted Type: RA Sent: -- Rec: 10/30/17 Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: 11/24/17 Upd: 6 years
University of California Berkeley Waitlisted Type: RA Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: 12/14/17 Upd: 6 years
New York University Accepted Type: RA Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: 10/30/17 Inter: -- Dec: 12/20/17 Upd: 6 years

Applicant Information

  • LSAT: 167
  • LSAT 2: -
  • LSAT 3: -
  • GRE : -
  • LSAC GPA: 3.94
  • Degree GPA: -
  • School Type: University of Michigan
  • Major: Philosophy

Demographic Information

  • City: Ann Arbor
  • State: Michigan
  • Race: White
  • Gender: Man
  • Non-Traditional Applicant: Yes
  • Years out of Undergrad: -

Extra Curricular Information

Transferred from JMU to UMich my sophomore year, so my listed GPA is cumulative. (3.92 @JMU and 3.96@Mich)

President of two clubs, one of which I am a founding member.
Very involved with the philosophy department; I have advising positions and some honorary titles under my belt.
Editor for an undergraduate journal.
Worked as an RA for a year.
Shitty job experience, with one summer internship at a D.C. firm
Congressional internship
97th percentile of my graduating class
Eagle Scout

**Advice to future people in my position:**

1) RETAKE. I have enough funding for law school outside of scholarships, which makes these options enough for me. If I did not have this money, I would try to score at least a 170 on the LSAT and go to a T10 school with at least $120k.

2) Write more "Why X" essays. I only wrote two, and I guarantee you this explains three of the waitlists.

Additional info & updates

UChicago is my top choice, with UVA as a close second.

Wrote a Why Michigan and a Why UChicago

UVA interview 11/21
In at Georgetown 11/24
In at UVA 11/28 via status checker
UVA official email 11/29
Cornell and UT interview requests 12/10
Waitlisted at Berkeley 12/14 :(
UChicago interview request :D
In at Michigan via email 12/20
In at NYU via phone 12/20
In at UT Austin via phone 1/3
1/4 Michigan scholarship! GO BLUE, BABY!
In at Cornell 1/17
Waitlisted by Chicago. ;( 1/18
Texas scholarship 1/19
Chicago LOCI sent 1/26
Updated Transcript request sent. GPA stayed the same.
Waitlisted at Penn 1/29.
Rejected at Stanford 2/2
Rejected at Harvard and "reserve" at Columbia 2/7
WL at NW and Duke 2/11
Cornell scholarship 2/15
I tried to increase my Cornell scholarship by leveraging my Mich scholly, but that failed.
UVA scholarship!! 2/24

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Berkeley
Tuesday, August 15 2017 at 12:36 PM

Did you write a "Why Berkeley" essay? I'm surprised you got waitlisted!

Thursday, October 12 2017 at 11:09 PM

I did not write a "Why Berkeley" outside of the optional supplement included in the normal app.