headliner2 (2022-2023)

just wondering why u only applied to one school

awesome cycle. Good luck on Pittsburg :). One question, what do you think of applying to Hofstra at this point in the game?

Great cycle. Have you made a decision?

Wow, anon, that is fucked up. Yeah, her numbers may not be as great but if URMs get bumps, its for a reason. Life isn't fair. You've probably gotten things you haven't deserved or were born with certain capabilities others weren't but few people have called you out. UA knows what they want and if that's a diverse class, that's what they get. Admissions decides who is qualified. Your attitude is terrible. You can think bad things about people but when you type them, you should atleast have the balls to not go around as anon. Congrats, headliner! Good luck to you making a choice.

Congrats on Alabama. =)

Good job on Alabama.

What are your numbers and what schools did you get into? Hopefully you'll do the right thing but until then have fun being anonymous. That is all.

Don't listen to him, headliner2. God has given you a great opportunity. Make the most of it! Anon, 1. You don't know headliner2. 2. Your response to aliscrimson had grammatical errors in it. 3. You bring up a hypothetical scenario where she is competent enough to pass the bar and graduate from a T1 school, but not competent enough to represent her client. What does that say about your faith in the bar, or in Alabama for that matter? 4. People are more than numbers. Even you. 5. "No amount of life trial can compensate for such woefully pitiful numbers." You are not qualified to make that judgment. Personally, I find it hard to respect someone who is so bitter that they have to attack a woman on what should be one of the happiest occasions of her life. Shame on you!

I appreciate your tone more so than Anonymous 1 (for the sake of clarity) but there are still some things that should be considered. According to my numbers I should have been instantly rejected from Alabama. I wasn't. I actually made it past a round of rejections with a much lower GPA than headliner2, according to the the staff I talked to over the phone. I had no URM status working in my favor. What is failed to be considered is that perhaps Alabama is actually one of the few schools that backs up its claim that it looks beyond the numbers. In my case, although rejected, I felt they had looked more at the totality of my being than almost every school I applied to. You also did not mention anything like the personal statements, life experience unrelated to race or letters of recommendation at all in your statement. All of these factor, in some way, into the colleges decision. I'm inclined to think they factor more at Alabama than at most schools. Therefore, let us keep the complex, complex and admit that that every single application is different. Headliner2 could of had just nailed the personal statement of her application out of the park, and left her reviewers saying "this person gets it!" We simply don't know. Secondly, admittance to the law school does not guarantee graduation from the law school. The student still must put in their work or fail out of the law school. Clearly anyone who is incapable of successfully completing law school is soon shown the door. I don't think anyone gets into Alabama without at least having the potential to succeed there. Failure is usually external or internal, but I doubt it would be due to lack of cognitive ability. As for fairness, the admissions process is often not fair. No on will argue that. What I am concerned with is if it is just. It is not fair that some born into poverty. It is not fair that my professor was an immigrant field worker at the age of 10 working the fields instead of going to school. It wasn't fair that I had to work 3 jobs dealing daily with violence and trying to focus on my education amid gunfire. These things aren't fair but they have to be dealt with as a part of the human condition. The problem with the URM status is that it often concerns people 20+ years too late. Intervention this late in life is a day late and a dollar short. It is clearly not utopia. Yet, it is the best we option we currently have. The URM status designation seeks, in a flawed but honest way, to create justice. It is not perfect, nor can it ever be. That is the human condition, but the situation can be improved. I do think the URM status designation does have some role in improving society. After all, without the URM status it is possible that Clarence Thomas doesn't get into Yale or onto the SCOTUS. In the end, Alabama has made their decision and I'm going to trust that it was the right one for everyone involved. I don't think anyone has enough information here on headliner2's page to challenge that.