silentlaw (2022-2023)

(Elaborating now with a deposit down on a good school)Significant extracurricular participation and awards. (President of Student Body, Key to the City, Designed free transportation route on campus, secured funding for a $40 million recreation center expansion, tons of leadership, very good LORs including personal rec from university president and city mayor, good PS)
Very strong soft factors.
Applying directly from undergrad.
Graduated in 3 years.
Chiashu for the rank.

Comments welcome!
Sent: Apps sent to LSAC
Recieved: Report request received by LSAC
Complete: Notice received from school of complete file.

10-15 Waiting for letters....lazy profs!

10-17 Letters all in the mail...waiting on LSAC...lazy website! Also, why does washU not want a report? Fair enough...

10-24 Finally WUstl. Also Chicago says complete, but there are still more letters on the way...which STILL haven't been processed my LSAC...

10-25 It took LSAC 5 days to process my second letter...third should be forthcoming by the end of the week. Completions should be close behind

10-31 All letters processed and sent. Complete at GULC via status checker thingy.

11-02 Emailed complete at Cornell...should be getting more of these soon...and late day completion from Vandy.

11-06 E-Complete at UIUC, letter from UMich, complete.

11-08 Took a tour of UMich this past weekend. I loved the campus and the people...my fingers are crossed!

11-09 Have been complete at WuStl since Oct 20. They sent mail notice to my home address.

11-27 Ok, begin the two-weeks-till-panic countdown. All's quiet on the lawschool front...

11-28 Notified complete from Duke...that only took 6 weeks...

12-07 Well, at least we got the cycle started on the right foot. Dinged at GULC. Yeah, it was a reach, but ouch.

12-13 Deferred at UMich. Better than a rejection, I guess.

12-18 Ditto for Cornell.

12-27 Got paranoid and called IU-B. I am complete there and have been for some time.

1-03 Ditto for ND and GW.

1-05 WOOOOOOO I'm going to law school!! YAYAY! Accepted to UIUC with a nice and quite surprising scholatship offer. 8x10 white envelope.
...and on the 'Provisional List" for Notre Dame, but I'm not letting them ruin my day.

1-15 Just got some mail from home...full tuition scholarship to IUB! That. Is. Awesome.

1-22 Dinged at Chitown...no surprise there. It was a superreach.

1-24 IN at WUSTL via email...financial info coming in a week or two.

2-12 Dinged at UMich C'est la vie.

3-10 Waitlisted at Vandy. Their medians were 3.7/166 last year. Hmm.

3-15 Add another waitlist to the stack. GW was my #1 choice remaining. Shit.

3-31 De facto withdrawing my application to IUB by not sending my place-holder email. Despite the free tuition, I just can't justify passing on either WUStL or UIUC for them.

4-8 Barring a freak merit scholarship from GW off the wait list or an equally freak Cornell acceptance, I'm Wustl class of '10. Good luck everyone.

4-9 Unceremonious rejection from Duke after having heard nothing for 5 months. Efff those guys. Dates April 5, small white envelope.

4-13 Wustl upped my $ offer by 2k a year right before the deposit due date. Nice move, but I'm hoping for more as the summer continues.

4-30 In at ND off the WL. Most likely declining in a few days.

5-31 Just visited St. Louis and LOVED it, found an apartment, and finalized my finaid/deposits. I'm going to Wash U.