OperationAwesome (2022-2023)

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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F - Fee Waiver A - Attending W - Withdrawn D - Deferred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
#7 University of California Berkeley F Accepted A Type: RA Sent: 10/01/08 Rec: 10/21/08 Comp: 10/22/08 Inter: -- Dec: 11/25/08 Upd: 14 years
#3 Columbia University F Waitlisted D W Type: RA Sent: 10/03/08 Rec: 10/06/08 Comp: 10/10/08 Inter: -- Dec: 04/11/09 Upd: 15 years
#5 New York University F Waitlisted W Type: RA Sent: 10/03/08 Rec: -- Comp: 11/18/08 Inter: -- Dec: 04/11/09 Upd: 15 years
#5 University of Chicago F Waitlisted D W Type: RA Sent: 09/29/08 Rec: 10/01/08 Comp: 10/01/08 Inter: -- Dec: 04/21/09 Upd: 15 years
#9 University of Virginia F Accepted W Type: RA $39,000 Sent: 10/06/08 Rec: 10/06/08 Comp: -- Inter: -- Dec: 01/14/09 Upd: 15 years
#9 Cornell University Accepted W Type: $99,000 Sent: 09/27/08 Rec: -- Comp: 12/17/08 Inter: -- Dec: 12/18/08 Upd: 15 years
#3 Stanford University F Rejected Type: RA Sent: 10/06/08 Rec: 10/08/08 Comp: -- Inter: -- Dec: 04/29/09 Upd: 15 years
#1 Harvard University F Waitlisted Type: RA Sent: -- Rec: -- Comp: -- Inter: -- Dec: 04/15/09 Upd: 15 years
#1 Yale University F Waitlisted Type: RA Sent: 10/13/08 Rec: -- Comp: -- Inter: -- Dec: 04/15/09 Upd: 15 years
#9 Duke University F Accepted W Type: SP $45,000 Sent: 10/02/08 Rec: -- Comp: 10/08/08 Inter: -- Dec: 10/27/08 Upd: 15 years
#19 George Washington University F Accepted W Type: RA $105,000 Sent: 10/20/08 Rec: -- Comp: 10/29/08 Inter: -- Dec: -- Upd: 15 years
#17 University of Southern California F Pending W Type: RA Sent: 10/20/08 Rec: 10/24/08 Comp: -- Inter: -- Dec: -- Upd: 15 years
#15 University of California Los Angeles F Pending W Type: RA Sent: 10/20/08 Rec: -- Comp: 10/28/08 Inter: -- Dec: -- Upd: 15 years
#16 University of Texas Austin F Accepted W Type: $21,000 Sent: 10/20/08 Rec: 10/21/08 Comp: 11/05/08 Inter: -- Dec: -- Upd: 15 years
#14 Vanderbilt University F Accepted W Type: RA Sent: 10/20/08 Rec: 10/21/08 Comp: 10/27/08 Inter: -- Dec: 11/19/08 Upd: 15 years
#9 University of Michigan Ann Arbor F Waitlisted D W Type: RA Sent: 10/03/08 Rec: -- Comp: 10/22/08 Inter: -- Dec: -- Upd: 15 years
#13 Georgetown University F Waitlisted W Type: RA Sent: 10/01/08 Rec: -- Comp: 10/07/08 Inter: -- Dec: 12/17/08 Upd: 15 years
#21 Boston College F Accepted W Type: Sent: 10/20/08 Rec: 10/20/08 Comp: 10/24/08 Inter: -- Dec: 12/18/08 Upd: 15 years
#20 Boston University F Accepted W Type: RA $75,000 Sent: 10/20/08 Rec: 10/21/08 Comp: 10/31/08 Inter: -- Dec: 12/12/08 Upd: 15 years
#18 Fordham University F Accepted W Type: RA $60,000 Sent: 10/20/08 Rec: -- Comp: 10/20/08 Inter: -- Dec: 12/11/08 Upd: 15 years
#7 University of Pennsylvania F Rejected Type: RA Sent: 10/06/08 Rec: -- Comp: 10/15/08 Inter: -- Dec: 01/14/09 Upd: 15 years

Applicant Information

  • LSAT: 168
  • LSAT 2: -
  • LSAT 3: -
  • GRE : -
  • LSAC GPA: 3.92
  • Degree GPA: 3.8
  • School Type: Ivy
  • Major: Political Science

Demographic Information

  • City: New York
  • State: New York
  • Race: Cuban/Hispanic
  • Gender: Man
  • Under Represented Minority: Yes
  • Non-Traditional Applicant: Yes
  • Years out of Undergrad: In Undergrad

Extra Curricular Information

Teaching GED class for adults.

Additional info & updates

Scholarships above represented as amounts for all three years.

Cuban.
GED.
Community college transfer.
First in fam to attend college.
Dean's list every semester.
Senior Honors Thesis.

In the interest of making myself useful as a datapoint to future LSN users, I will post some qualitative assessments of various soft factors of mine soonish :)
BUT NOT UNTIL I GET A FEW RESPONSES FROM SCHOOLS FIRST

Update 1: Aug 21st: Fee Waiver at Duke
Update 2: Aug 25th: Fee Waiver at U. Michigan - Ann Arbor!
Update 3: Sept 5th: Fee waiver at UChicago!! And UVirginia!!
Update 4: Sept 12th: (hidden) fee waivers at Columbia and NYU!!!!!!!
Update 5: Oct 9th: OMG Gtown and Duke are already looking at my app <<
Update 6: Oct 27th: DUKE!!! :D
Update 7: Nov 2nd: I'm under review at the Gtown and the Berkleynator. Excitement :O
Update 8: Nov 6th: phone call from texas and snail mail from Duke :)

Update 9: Nov 15th. Just got finaid letter from Texas today.

Update 10: Nov 23: Pins and needles. Vanderbilt said they put the decision in the mail but haven't gotten it yet. I have a feeling for some reason the shoe is gonna drop at Berkeley soon too. Ack ....

Update 11: Nov 25th: BERKELEY PHONE CALL HOLY CRAP

Update 12: Dec 18th: ok so been a while since i posted here. crazy semester. thanks for all the congrats people. AS you can see, Cornell, Fordham, BC, etc. Georgetown waitlisted, lol. ok then...

Update 13: Jan 20th: On hold at Chicago.
Berkeley still in the lead.

Update 14: February 17th: On hold at Columbia until Apr at the latest. OH MY GOD PLEASE LET ME IN.

Update 15: March 28th: Cornell tossing me money makes me think about Cornell more, but i dunno if it's a game changer. Have to wait to see what berkeley's offer is. at this point i'm kind of waiting for HYSCCN to just get on with it and reject me already :P but i guess we'll see how complicated the picture gets...

Update 16: April 16th: king of the waitlist, that's me.
only waiting on an update on my hold from chicago, a response from stanford, and finaid from berkeley. almost done!

Update 17: berkeley coming through huge!

Update 18: chicago waitlist. ONLY STANFORD REMAINS!!!

update 19: and then there were 6! king of the waitlist, that's me. have to confirm with berkeley soon tho, so probably berkeley!

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Good Luck
Friday, July 04 2008 at 08:00 PM

Your last is my first. I hope to get my apps in by Oct 1. Good luck with your cycle.

Friday, July 04 2008 at 08:00 PM

I am applying to more, of course. so you have sent your apps in?

Quick Question
Wednesday, May 28 2008 at 08:00 PM

Hey, I was hoping you could help me out real quick. How do you find out your LSDAS GPA, I sent in my transcipts already, but I am not sure where to find it. I would really appreciate your help!! And good luck this cycle, your stats are great!

Thanks
Wednesday, May 28 2008 at 08:00 PM

Thank you for your help!! Keep in touch during the year and let me know how you're doing!

Monday, August 18 2008 at 08:00 PM

WOW! All the apps sent in already? Awesome! Did you write a DS?

URM
Friday, August 01 2008 at 08:00 PM

I've heard the URM thing varies at different schools. If you have some hard statements from law schools I'd love to read them (and I'm not being snarky; I genuinely hope you have read stuff i haven't and can point me in the right way). But also I feel kinda justified cuz not only am I hispanic, but URM seems like a good proxy for the admissions boost I'm gonna get from random soft factors (which I'm not gonna get into in super-specific detail on LSN, lol). Could be wrong though. Thanks for your comment!

Duke
Saturday, August 16 2008 at 08:00 PM

Were you PT at Duke or just a fee waiver?

Status Checker
Saturday, August 16 2008 at 08:00 PM

Happen to know time between status checker going "under review" to "decision"? Just trying to get a pin on whether or not they are really looking through non-PT apps yet or not.

Well...
Friday, August 01 2008 at 08:00 PM

...my status checker was under review on the 8th of october. However, i got an email with the decision yesterday, and it didn't post to the status checker that they'd mailed out a decision until today :P So that was kinda weird. I'm in the JD/LLM program so maybe they are reviewing those first..

Congrats and good luck!
Tuesday, October 07 2008 at 08:00 PM

Nice to see a fellow Cuban enjoying success, congrats on duke! They've been reviewing my app for a couple weeks now so hopefully I'll hear something soon. Good luck on the rest of your cycle!

Outliers....
Wednesday, July 02 2008 at 08:00 PM

Dude, we have such similar numbers. lol Yes, outliers represent. ;)

sweet
Friday, July 04 2008 at 08:00 PM

Duke! I love that we are applying to the same schools. ARGGG! My apps are finally getting in, one month behind schedule but still : ) I wish you the best of luck!

Wednesday, October 22 2008 at 08:00 PM

Congratulations on Duke and Texas!

Hey
Saturday, August 09 2008 at 08:00 PM

Congrats and good luck with the rest of your cycle!

more good luck to you
Friday, July 04 2008 at 08:00 PM

what kind of fee waivers are those?

Hey
Saturday, August 09 2008 at 08:00 PM

Thanks for your comments and congrats on your acceptances too! I will post my 'softs' when the cycle is done, so stay posted! We'll see how the rest of the cycle turns out, but of course, I'm keeping it realistic.

Saturday, August 09 2008 at 08:00 PM

And yes William and Mary is the oldest law school in the nation. Ahhh I'm surprised you didn't apply! lol

Wednesday, July 02 2008 at 08:00 PM

Numbers twin! Congrats on Berkeley! So exciting!!!!

Friday, July 04 2008 at 08:00 PM

Berkeley.

Monday, July 07 2008 at 08:00 PM

Congrats on Berkeley! Looks like 168 was the cutoff for 11/25...nice work! :-)

Stuck in limbo
Sunday, November 09 2008 at 07:00 PM

Congrads on Berkeley, Univ, of Texas & Vanderbilt. I'm a URM who applied for Berkeley, G'Town & George Washington what do ya'll think??

woohoo!
Friday, December 05 2008 at 07:00 PM

congrats! also a transfer student/lots in common

Arent you
Monday, July 07 2008 at 08:00 PM

going to start withdrawing applications at some of these places?

Any thoughts as to...
Monday, July 07 2008 at 08:00 PM

why you didn't get into UPenn? I could've sworn you were going to bat 1000 outside of HYS. Great cycle so far!

ya i dunno
Friday, August 01 2008 at 08:00 PM

i'm anticipating a rejection from uchicago today as well. we will see when i get home and check the mail :/ alas. still i'm very happy with berk even if i don't get any of HYSCCN. gonna start withdrawing from places very soon.

Don't Despair!!!
Monday, July 07 2008 at 08:00 PM

You still have an EXCELLENT shot at HYSCCN. It's hard to predict where URMs will get admitted to/rejected from. I know a URM who was denied at Cornell and Penn but got into both CLS and YLS. I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of the traditional 6 takes you. I strongly believe you won't be going to Berkeley, though it's a pretty amazing worst case scenario, don't you think. GOOD LUCK!

Congratulations
Wednesday, August 20 2008 at 08:00 PM

Wow! Your cycle has been going great. I bet its nice just waiting on a T4 when you have a school like Berkeley to fall back on. Good luck on the rest of your apps.

Congrats!
Friday, February 20 2009 at 07:00 PM

Dude - great cycle! However, when are you going to withdraw from some of these places? Like, are you REALLY still considering Fordham? Someone out there could really benefit from your spot, not to mention that you're killing trees by allowing some of these schools to continue sending you crap. Congrats, good luck with your thesis, and good luck with the rest of your cycle! BTW - are you going to Berkeley's ASW? Hope to see you there!

Any...
Friday, February 20 2009 at 07:00 PM

news?

Wow!
Friday, February 20 2009 at 07:00 PM

$99k from Cornell is amazing! In this unpredictable economy, taking out a boatload of loans is a risky idea. Are you finished with your thesis yet? How's that going? Also, are you attending Berkeley's admitted student weekend? GL on HYSCCN! I strongly doubt you won't get in. On hold/deferred at Columbia or Chicago means you were yield-protected--they probably think you're getting into one of their peers (or better). It's not like a waitlist where they'll get back to you in the middle of the summer (if that). I hope you wrote some pretty strong LOCIs! GL!

Any word..
Monday, July 07 2008 at 08:00 PM

on UCB matching schollys?

Waitlists
Friday, February 20 2009 at 07:00 PM

Are you planning on riding them out? Lots of people would love to be on Harvard or Yale's wl.

Dude!
Friday, February 20 2009 at 07:00 PM

Did you just go to decision pending at UofC? A bunch of TLSers previously on hold just went to DP. If so, you better stay close to your phone amigo! GL!