ImNobody (2022-2023)

Good ECs, LORs...plus soft factor madness. I hope.
Couple of pub's, 4 years on a varsity sport, prestigious internship, yadda yadda.

The 2005 Chiasu odds (with results): I recently adjusted this list to reflect the 2005 numbers
Indiana....92% (IN, with $$)
UC Davis....57%, "refuses to even LOOK at your application" (IN, 12 hours before admit day, which is how I know they like me)
Minnesota.....75.4% (IN, with $$)
Notre Dame....46.3% (IN, with $$$)
George Washington....32.3% (OUT, with 'no compliments to my mother')
William & Mary....32% (WAITLIST...la de dah)
Georgetown....20.8% (OUT....you?! No, we were looking at your friend.)
Michigan....21% (OUT...didn't like the LSAT that much, apparently) "we only love you for your LSAT"
Northwestern....20.6% (OUT....that will teach you not to interview, won't it?)
USC....17.7% (OUT...in late May? Really guys? C'mon now.)
UVA....12.9% (WAITLIST...What?!?! Awesome)
UPenn....10.6%, "if we ignore you, will you go away?" (OUT....GO AWAY)
UCLA....10.6% (WAITLIST...just another really cool shot in the dark)
Chicago (Not Kent)....10.4% "roll the dice and hope for a confused adcomm" (OUT...We are Chicago, we can't be fooled!)
Columbia....5.8%"wouldn't even let you buy us a drink" (Ummm, NO)
Boalt.....2.9%, or (OUT, but we can still be friends. AND, if I want to send them more money next year, thats ok too)
Harvard....1.2%, or "Not even if you bought the library" (OUT...final count, 3 months and 2 days. I win)
Stanford....0.44%, or "We're rejecting anyone even associated with you" (OUT...don't tell 'em you know me)

Big movers n' shakers with the new data:
Down: UVA, UPenn, UMich, GW, GULC
Up: Harvard, Minnesota, Notre Dame
this did not bode well for my chances at GULC. On the plus side, I'm over 1% at Harvard now. Wooohoo!

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I'm not in law school right now. Draw your own conclusions.
Now I do this, too:

http://butnothanks.blogspot.com

GPA on an upswing, LSAT lower than expected. C'est la vie - I'd be delighted to attend any of these schools.
That said, I'm E-baying my kidney to pay for application fees. Any takers?

Apparently, I like Harvard and Stanford so much I decided to just give them money with no hope of return. Maybe those application fees will go on to fund some better-qualified student's scholarship? Karma, baby. Maybe its just paying for all those "HLS" t-shirts they've been sending out.
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1/25/2006: Its like I can't control myself- with every piece of law school advertising, every time I log on to the computer..."hmmm: should I apply there? I still have a few weeks"...Just. Stop. Sending. Them. Your. Money. Be strong.
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02/02/06: In! Got a handy chunk o' change from Notre Dame - this leaves me optimistic at times, and at times terrified of the proverbial other shoe dropping...hm.
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02/06/06 In @ Indiana! 2 for two...this may be the last good news for a while. Oh well. Options!
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02/07/06: phone call from mom:
MOM: "Honey, you've got a big package in the mail from Chicago!"
ME: (hyperventilating- WTF?!) "Oh my gosh!! Open it open it open it!"
MOM: "its a viewbook...they want you to apply!!"

*****long silence******

ME: "Mom. Can you look at that envelope again? Does it say Chicago, or Chicago-Kent?"
MOM: "oh. Sorry honey...So, are you going to apply?"
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02/08/06: $$ from Indiana. Why are you so nice to me?
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02/14/06: Love for me on V-Day!
Call from MN.
Harvard: could you please send my rejection over? This is starting to get a little eerie...
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02/16/06: I seem to have made it through Stanford's 1st round of rejections- a dubious honor due mostly to the fact that my complete date is later than most.
I'm withdrawing from Indiana- here's to someone else using my cash. Good luck all IUB applicants!
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02/21/06: during my SECOND bought of flu this season, I came to the realization that my personal statement was neither interesting nor compelling, and was probably written on the wrong topic.
Hm.
CNN email alerts are making me crazy..."oh look new mail!!..............oh."
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02/22/06:

******THE NEW RULES******
1. Cannot check e-mail more than once every 15 minutes, even at work.
2. Cannot check real mail until mailman has left the porch. Stop stalking him.
3. Cannot subject roommates to more than 1 rendition of "what are my chances at the following schools" per day
4. Do not check LSN more than twice daily. Do not check LSD more than three times daily.
5. Do not discuss law school with anyone whose first and last name you do not know (excepting fellow sufferers). Strangers are not interested in your endeavors.
5. For every time you break a rule, put a dollar in the "law jar." In August, use contents to buy a new coffee maker.
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02/27/06: Now we wait. Not lurking next to the mailbox, promise.
Realized in talking to a peer (admitted to Boalt, the jerk) that Notre Dame has no logical reason for admitting me at all. They W/L'ed him, which leads me to believe their admission process is something like my alma mater's favorite game: Bovine Bingo.
step 1: feed cow heavily
step 2: turn cow loose on giant bingo board/applications
step 3: scatological evaluation ensues
The moral of the story is that sometimes, admissions stinks- and this is A-OK by me. Go Knute!

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03/01/06: I have walking pneumonia!! I should get a prize...its like I'm Tiny Tim or something
First rejection! Sort of an unexpected one, but nevertheless, finally got that elusive UMinn envelope, with some $$ attached.
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03/02/06: Partyguy has an amazing singing voice!
4:02pm- WHERE is the mail?! I refuse to move on with my day without it.
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03/03/06: Law School Discussion is down and I'm home sick.....noooooooooooooo. What now, turn to the facebook?
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03/06/06: Actually, there's NOT more to me than the numbers. In case you were wondering.
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03/07/06: Ok, Harvard, Stanford, and the rest of you over-achievers. At least some of you KNOW that you don't want me, so why are you hanging around? I'm starting to fixate on the complete and utter lack of news, and its really starting to make me crazy. Lets move on folks- you and I both know that even ridiculously sexy EC's won't help you to get over my GPA. Its not you, its me- move along, folks, move along.
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03/08/06:
Dear Law Schools,
Its my birthday, so you can't reject me. Mwhahhahaah. I win. Try again tomorrow.
Love,
Me
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03/09/06: I decided NOT to visit ND and MN- didn't have the $$ and couldn't afford to spend the time away from all my commitments here. I know they are cold and I will be spending an inordinate amounts of time in the library, so that is that. Still no clear front-runner.
HEY! I finally actually LOOKED at the graphs for the schools I've been accepted to, and I'm very much on the fringe there as well. That makes me feels loads better. Don't say it...

LATER: I just wasted an entire morning on LSN/LSD. Theses and the like do not, actually, get written by themselves, as I have discoverd. I am taking a 3 day vacation. If anyone finds me huddled, unwashed, and shaking in a corner somewhere, we'll know that quitting cold turkey is not for the faint of heart. First step is recognition.
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3/10/06: Out at Boalt, which, much to my mother's suprise, is NOT Davis' law school. They let me down nice and gently, though (I think after the email incident, a gentle rejection is OWED, after all), and had the good taste not to say "Your GPA sucks and we hate you. Go away."
Impeccable restraint, Mr. Tom.
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03/13/06: The Pendulum swings....
Its a good thing Notre Dame insists on carpet bombing my mailbox with letters every few days, to keep up my self esteem.
Out at Stanford today- I'm going to go ahead and consider it an achievement that I made it all the way to March. They informed me that lots of their rejects are admitted to top law schools, etc: I can only hope they've passed the word along to those other alleged 'top schools'- O.K. guys, time to pick up Stanford's slack!
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03/16/06: Out at Michigan today- burned a little more than the others...blech.
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03/20/06: Two months (officially, sorry my dates are sort of estimated up here) complete at Harvard and they haven't dinged me yet! hahahahahahah I win, Toby. Every day you keep me is another day my cruddy little GPA tarnishes the veneer on your fine institution. Mwhwhhahahaah
PS: I have a problem with the fact that my class rank won't let me be '1 in a million.' Because, really.
03/20/06 PM: There is a restaurant in town that serves lattes in BOWLS. No joke- I've eaten cereal out of smaller containers. I'm in love.
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03/21/06: itunes for applying? Alabama must be hurtin'...
MY MAILBOX: Where ambitions go to die.
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03/27/06: Because rejections weren't enough, the fates commissioned a big ass truck to destroy my precious little car, and I lost my favorite pair of sunglasses. I think someone is trying to tell me something. Hm. Would not be suprised to recieve a horses' head tomorrow.
WOOHOOO Waitlist at UVA!!
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04/03/06:
Today is free coffee day at Peets. Glorious.
Still not rejected at Harvard! I win. Am currently composing lovesongs to Dean Trujillo. Suggestions welcomed.
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04/11/06: Hoping to be the shudderingly ugly GPA that Harvard thought looked "pretty cute" after a couple of drinks...we shall see.
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04/25/06: Not so cute after all. Oh well. Too busy and tired to fiddle on LSN, early morning practices are sucking my soul out. Giant T-shirt in the mail yesterday. Nice. Still no actual idea what I'm doing with my life.
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05/02/06: Waitlist at UCLA wears away at my resolve to leave CA. Still, quite happy about the prospects.
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05/05/06: Cinco de Mayo~
Exceedingly unwanted today. Oh well.
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05/17/06:
Don't even begin to think that you've heard the last of me, folks- there's waitlists to be had.