squirt (2004 – 2005)

i'm gonna go ahead and first explain the LSAT average. i'm one of those few people who actually took the LSAT three times. first time i took it, i got a 148 on it (this couldn't be fit into LSN), which is what pulled my average down to 157. this is CLEARLY not a score that reflects my skill, but an accurate measure how stupied i am sometimes. there was this girl who was taking the test and needed a study buddy, along with someone to take the test with her to "calm her nerves". so i kinda just watched her study and took the test blind, and ended up with this piece of ish score. the things one does for love. so yea...take my advice and do NOT take it if you aren't ready. thus far i don't think it's really hurt me though, as that would easily put me far, FAR below the lower 25% of any school i've been admitted to, but i did explain in an addendum that i was not ready for the first test and ask that they please place more weight on the last two. moving on...

my major has been left blank because i believe that if you do major in something, you should at least have a firm grasp of the material. sadly, i could tell you nothing about economics (that's my major, congratulations for finding out) and so it's as good as useless.

the top of this section says "extracurricular info", but sadly, you will find none of that here. all i did in college was sleep until 5 pm, wake up, eat my "breakfast", play video games until around midnite, eat my "lunch", then continue playing until i passed out around 5 am. deadly cycle but somehow or another i managed to graduate with a fairly respectable gpa. just wish i had the extra .06 to make it a lovely 3.0 though. i can tell you how to land a sick head shot though, if that's considered a skill.

so you come here and see this monstrous list of schools and wonder "wtf is this guy thinking?!" trust me...if i saw this, i'd think you're nuts as well but truth of the matter is that i know a good amount of people who had numbers around mine who were able to squeeze themselves into a good school. i know this won't apply to harvard or any of the top 20 (those are for the parents...just so they can say i tried), but it's possible after the top 20. i just hope that my personal essay was enough to make schools overlook my crap of a gpa...

quick glance up top and you can see that i've been accepted by a few schools, so at least i know i'm going to law school. what should REALLY catch your eye is the monstrous list of rejections. i consider waiting lists as good as rejections since face it, the only time anyone should ever have to look twice is if you can't believe what you saw the first time, ie when a hot girl passes me by who winks at me or something. gotta look twice just to make sure she was doin it towards me. anyway...at first i thought i might have had a shot at a top 30 school but those rejections seem to be coming in the fastest. just makes me wonder why harvard and yale didn't just look at my file and say uh...no. could've done what UC hastings did and send me a letter telling me that i'm a huge dumbass for even thinking they'd consider me.

so with the schools that i've received admissions from, i've received scholarships to three schools; rutgers, syracuse, brooklyn, and indiana-indy. the rutgers scholarship was funny cuz it's a $7k a yr "academic merit" scholarship. you and i both know that there is nothing academic about me. i don't study, and my numbers are a prime example of this being true. whatever though, money's money. syracuse gave me $8k a yr but considering that they're private...that's chump change. be nice if they threw in some free luxury boxes or something so i could see them orangemen play (i refuse to call them orange...sounds so stupid cheering for a citrus fruit). also, brooklyn offered me a 8.5k scholarship granted i remain in the top 3rd of my class. i ranked in the bottom 3rd in undergrad so uh...i dono about that. same gripe as syracuse though, too little money for a private school. IUPUI offered a scholarship for 5k a year for a "nonresident". sounds a little like they rewarded me for not spending my life in indiana. i dono about you but i found that humorous.

if you actually read through this, show me some love and support! i need it...bad...

since some have wondered, i am an asian male. the silent yet model minority...the ones who continue to struggle the most in america (who the hell has heard of banks with signs that say "chinese spoken here" whereas they're EVERYWHERE for spanish speakers while i refuse to believe that african americans are "minorities" anymore if you got young white kids bobbin their heads to hip hop) yet have nothing but hills to climb in every way imaginable. that, and my women keep going for people of other races! telling you, it's a sad, lonely life. not racist, not bitter (actually, maybe a little), just this way whenever it comes to affirmative action with school admissions. oh hi, you're a minority? oh wait...you're asian! good luck competing with everyone else without any special perks! then at the end of the day, we'll treat you as a minority again! blah

taking too much space to the right so i'll post older entries here to "balance" things out:

2/17: i can't friggin believe i got waitlisted by howard. guess a historically black college really tries hard to stay that way...

2:19: dang...first rejection...damn you bill gates! let me get some of that money!

2/22: wow...what a crappy day. ended up with 2 waiting list letters. think i'd rather just get flat out rejected.

2/23: god damn...i started off all strong with acceptance letters coming by the dozens and the past few days have been a huge drought. found out that fordham rejected me via their online status checker, and so there goes my application fee...applying to law schools sure does suck.

2/24: received my fordham rejection in the mail (originally found out i was "denied" by going on their status checker). also received a scholarship from syracuse for 8k a year, but considering that they're private and easily more expensive than rutgers, i highly doubt i'd take the offer.

2/25: add another rejection to the list...boulder doesn't want me either! i need a hug.

2/26: baylor university decides that they, too, don't need a student of my abilities. rejection after rejection...i miss how my mailbox was only 2 weeks ago...

2/28: emory university sent me a letter resembling a breakup letter while uc hastings straight up said "you are dumb...why'd you apply here". i also received a letter from loyola LA that i thought should've been a rejection letter but instead, it was just a letter indicating i should apply for financial aid. what a fakeout (in a good way). did, however, receive admission from new york law school but that's practically worthless to me as i doubt i'd choose that place over any of my previous acceptances. must reemphasize how much i hate law school admissions. hear me roar *meow* also, what else sucks is that northwestern, who i totally forgot that i had applied to, sent me some email saying there was a problem with my lsac report. i applied over a month ago and it turns out they never requested it! ugh...damn these people...damn them all

3/2: received a small white envelope from duke saying thanks but no thanks. btw, duke sucks.

3/3: received rejection letters from both boston college and wake forest. both were in their little dinky envelopes that just scream out rejection. figured i wouldn't get into boston college but thought i had a legitimate shot at wake...kinda bums me out. however, i did find a nice big envelope from san diego that turned out to be...

wtf, it was another rejection. call it a breakup letter that still wants to be friends, claiming i'm not good enough but she'll settle for somethin a little less. they offered me instead a spot in their evening program. so now i have 3 options...i can either take it now and transfer later, take it now and be placed on a waiting list for the fulltime program, or just ask to be placed on the fulltime waiting list. sucks too cuz i really wanted to go to somewhere warm and there is no way in hell i'll get into a UC. ah well...broken dreams. you know how it is...can't be friends when you break up, it doesn't work that way.

3/4: slow day in terms of mail...received nothing other than some unsolicited crap. did however receive an email from pittsburgh who decided, like seemingly everyone else, PUT ME ON THEIR DAMN WAITLIST. ugh...it's as though these schools derive pleasure from allowing people to not know their futures. it did say i was "competitive" (yea right) and that 10-25 percent of the waitlist get accepted. i predict that i will fall in the other 75-90 percent who get shafted. just watch...

3/5: surprise surprise...gtown is "unable to approve my application". who the hell wants your approval...i just want a damn spot in your 1L class. i hope you sink into the potomac.

3/7: this entry's gonna be a huuuuge gripe about how law school admissions is causing unnecessary stress. but first...let me announce that yes, i have received yet ANOTHER rejection letter, this time from the lovely folks at notre dame. didn't expect to get in and after reading about them on princeton review, not very enthusiastic about a school that prefers the majorities instead of supporting minorities. with that said...i hope each member of the adcomm gets alcohol poisoning on saint patties day. moving on...it has been brought to my attention by mwitterone that utah has gone through a massive update on their website. sounds bad, as most of the people who have updated in the last few days were ALL rejections. so...i'm assuming that i am just another statistic instead of being someone special. sucks too cuz i really wanted to go there...great skiing and it's nice to go back to where i lived a good portion of my life. too bad that seems ever so unlikely now. and no, i'm not mormon. moving on to the final topic would be why loyola LA sucks. these people keep sending me little envelopes that would make anyone assume that they're rejection letters, yet each time it's something stupid like "apply for financial aid" or "minority day is coming up". well...today i again received one of these dreadful thin envelopes, which instead had information required to check my status online. checking on this...i find that they processed my application only this past wednesday AND are missing stuff still. wtf man...no other school but them and i thought i was doing well with everything considering all the crap they've sent me. so yes...this is my gripe of the day...expecting utah's rejection any day now (and then watch me get put on their waiting list...those bastards!).

3/7 (part 2): speak of the devil...couple hours after writing this whole spiel about how utah's gonna reject me, i get a phone call from the dean of admissions saying that i'm in! eat that notre dame! them mormons got more love for me than you catholics (sorry if you belong to any of these religious sects...meant no disrespect)!

3/9: boring 2 days...yesterday i had nothing. you'd think with all the schools i've applied to, i'd get somethin each day but noooo. today i received an acceptance from pennstate. i don't know why i applied there...figured i'd go watch some football but AFTER applying, found out it was at some other campus. that, and from what i hear, they're closing down the law school to open a new one at university park soon. that's crap...and no money from them too. they gotta be outta their little nittany minds.

3/10: big day on the rejection front. UF was "not able to act affirmatively"...which is the oddest way i've been rejected so far. fancy word for gtown's equivalent of approvable. rutgers-newark, on the other hand, delivered a much harsher statement, rubbing it in that "all decisions are final and there is no appeal." to me, this is just odd, considering the other rutgers took like, a week to say we want you, whereas these guys took their sweet ass time and still said no. just seems odd to get an acceptance and a rejection from essentially the same school. on a side note, i got an acceptance from baltimore (not gonna take it), along with a scholarship offer from brooklyn for 8.5k, which just seems too damn little...